OrangeSoul Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Article Date is October 2004 but is relevant today Ariel Sharon's most senior adviser triggered a political storm in Israel yesterday when he said that the prime minister's much-touted Gaza disengagement plan was aimed at "freezing" the Middle East peace process and "indefinitely" postponing the creation of a Palestinian state.The candid admissions by Dov Weisglass who, as Mr Sharon's closest aide, is said to be his master's voice, will prove highly embarrassing for President George W Bush as he suggests that Mr Sharon's strategy has the full blessing of Washington. "The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process," Mr Weisglass said in a interview with the Haaretz newspaper. "And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. "Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. "And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. "The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. "It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians." The comments by Mr Weisglass, one of the initiators of the disengagement plan and Mr Sharon's key intermediary between Washington and Israel, stand at odds with repeated public assertions by both Mr Bush and Tony Blair that Mr Sharon's plan could be seen as a way of reinvigorating efforts towards peace. Mr Bush, who initiated the "road map" to peace in 2003, has appeared to back away from the plan, even though his administration continues to promote it publicly. The "road map" called for an end to settlement building in the occupied territories and for the creation of a Palestinian state by next year. Mark Heller, a leading Israeli analyst, said he was stunned by the interview. "This is kind of what people expected or suspected but it is jarring to see it in black and white. Mr Heller added: "When Tony Blair reads this I am sure he will be saying to himself, 'Oh God, they are going to savage me in the House of Commons'." Leaders of the Israeli Left yesterday accused Mr Sharon of publicly advocating support for the "road map" while he sought to deceive the Israeli public and disguise his real intentions. Shimon Peres, the Labour Party chairman and a friend of the prime minister for five decades, said Mr Sharon had never told him that the disengagement plan was meant to freeze the political process. Mr Peres warned ominously: "He who seeks half-peace will bring half-war." Another opposition leader, Yossi Beilin, who was a key negotiator in the Oslo process, said Mr Weisglass's "frightening comments" were uttered in a rare moment of truth, and laid bare Mr Sharon's real, and dangerous, intentions. Under Mr Sharon's disengagement plan, all Jewish settlements in Gaza and four isolated settlements in the West Bank are to be removed by the end of next year. But Palestinians have long accused Mr Sharon of using the plan as a cloak to disguise his intention to hold on to and consolidate the vast majority of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, surrounded by Israel's controversial security barrier which is under construction. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...07/ixworld.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creche Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 I still don't see how giving the Gaza to the palestinians is somehow so horrible for the palestinians, isn't that exactly what they been killing the jews to get? Or are they just mad that this will make it that much harder to "push the jews into the sea"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted July 13, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2005 I don't see any problems with the roadmap as of yet. If statehood isn't on its way around the time it is supposed to be then yeah it could be fishy, but untill then this is a great thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhalla_rk Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 I still don't see how giving the Gaza to the palestinians is somehow so horrible for the palestinians, isn't that exactly what they been killing the jews to get? Or are they just mad that this will make it that much harder to "push the jews into the sea"? 586190723[/snapback] it is horrible for them because: 1) they want an israeli citizenship, to destroy israel demographically. 2) they want all the land, and not just gaza strip. nor 67 lines... they want it all. they are still killing jews, as you can see happend yesterday in The coastal town of Netanya. 3 israelis has been murdered by a palestinian suicide bomber at a shopping mall. http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=d...le=298924&lng=1 if they were smart they were sitting quite and wait that the disengagement plan will be completed btw, the corrent phrase the you quoted above is "let them drink from the sea of gaza " and it was directed toward israelis . about the article, what peace process are you talking about? and by histrical point of view, the palestinials could have a state a long time ago, they had more than one chance, and they will soon have another one, lets see if they will do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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