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Americans for Peace Now Update |
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by Americans for Peace Now via Gehrig
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10 Feb 2004
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Israeli reaction to Sharon's plan to evacuate Gaza settlements: "Now, after Sharon, average Likudniks may also admit what was also considered, among them, to be a national betrayal: the entire occupation is a burden, not an asset." |
Getting With The Game Plan: A Dahaf/Yedioth Ahronoth survey of Israeli opinion taken just after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced his Gaza evacuation plan found that 59% of Israelis support the proposal, 34% oppose it, and 7% are undecided. Commenting on the poll results, Sever Plotzker wrote, “One statement by the prime minister about evacuation of the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip—unilateral, without peace, without an agreement, without political exchange—was enough to get Israeli public support for an evacuation to jump from 45 to nearly 60 percent. One statement was enough to liberate from repression what the majority of Israelis have known for quite some time but have hesitated and refused to express publicly: that there is no alternative to withdrawal to the Green Line and abandoning nearly all the settlements built in all the territories. Now, after Sharon, average Likudniks may also admit what was also considered, among them, to be a national betrayal: the entire occupation is a burden, not an asset. Getting rid of it will benefit Israel, not cost it. Sharon removed the taboo, first when he said, ‘The occupation is bad for Israel,’ and afterward when he said, ‘We will move settlements,’ and now with his announcement: ‘There will be no Jews in Gaza.’ Gaza first, then the West Bank: the route of the unagreed-upon border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, like the security fence, also moved very close to the Green Line last month. Whatever is on the other side of the fence will not remain under Israeli sovereignty for very long…” (Yedioth Ahronoth, 2/3/04)
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