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Olmert to ‘Post’: Israel to Have Final Borders by 2010
Excerpts;
“Israel’s permanent borders will be set within the next four years, a period during which construction will also begin in the controversial E1 section between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.”
“Olmert also said he had no intention of meeting Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas after the elections.”
“Olmert said he was opposed to ‘artificial distinctions.’ ‘The PA is one authority, the minute the dominant force in the PA is Hamas, then why [meet]?’ he asked. ‘We do not meet as two graduates from the same high school. There can only be a reason for a meeting if it serves a political purpose. If the government is a Hamas one, what political purpose can it serve?’”
“Olmert said he intended within the next four years to ‘get to Israel’s permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large and stable Jewish majority in Israel.’ This was the first time that Olmert has put a time frame on what he has said in the past was Israel’s most pressing issue: determining its final borders.”
“Olmert’s pledge to build E1 within the next four years came six months after he became the first senior Israeli official to publicly confirm that Israel had frozen the controversial building plans in the wake of American pressure.”
“The long-planned construction of 3,500 housing units on the outskirts of Ma’aleh Adumim, as part of a decade-old government proposal to link the suburban Jerusalem settlement to the capital, has been subject to fierce Palestinian and international condemnation and to American resistance.”
“Olmert’s chief political rival, Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly used the freeze on building in E1 to call into question the government’s determination to strengthen both Jerusalem and the major settlement blocs.”
“Olmert said that if he won the election, he would wait a “reasonable” amount of time to see whether Hamas would recognize Israel, disavow terrorism and disarm, accept previous PA-Israel agreements and act according to the guidelines of the road map.”
Rattling the Cage: Kadima’s Cockamamie Idea
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“The best thing I can say about Kadima’s new settlement evacuation plan for the West Bank is that it’s so pointless, so half-assed, that it’ll never get off the ground. All it offers Israel is a huge amount of pain in return for negligible gain, if that.”
“The plan laid out this week by Avi Dichter, the former Shin Bet chief who is Kadima’s brightest star on security, calls for Israel to evacuate settlements containing about 15,000 settlers on the far side of the West Bank security barrier. The settlements emptied out, however, would not be handed over to the Palestinians as was done in Gaza.”
“Instead, the IDF would move in to take the settlers’ place. In essence, the evacuated settlements - which include pockets of fanaticism like Yitzhar, Itamar, Kfar Tapuah, Har Bracha, Maon and Sussiya - would become IDF bases.”
“The 15,000 uprooted settlers would then be consolidated with the other 225,000 or so Israelis living in the West Bank into seven large settlement blocs. The whole process, Dichter says, would take about four years.”
“On first hearing, this plan might even sound attractive - it dismantles unwanted, isolated settlements, but without diminishing Israel’s security, and without giving the Palestinians any ‘prizes for terror.’”
“On second hearing, though, the plan reveals a shortcoming: It achieves not a single goal that Kadima and Ehud Olmert, along with the majority of Israelis, want to achieve.”
Commentary;
Recognizing what sees obviously the political agenda of the article’s author, this article is still interesting nonetheless, because it seems to strongly question Olmert’s true motivations in making the next disengagement [i.e. expulsions] in Yesha.
For example, Derfner writes in this same article, that the Olmert plan presented by former Shim Bet head Avi Dichter “doesn’t alter Israel’s demographics - its mix of Jews and Arabs - in the slightest; four years from now, after the evacuated settlers were replaced by soldiers, the number of Palestinians living under Israel’s control would have grown just as if Israel had left the West Bank untouched.”
“The plan doesn’t end the occupation or even curtail it; actually, with more soldiers in the West Bank, the occupation could even harden.”
“The policy unveiled by Dichter is a odd package, but what’s even odder is that he is Kadima’s premier strategist for how Israel should deal with the Palestinians. As head of the Shin Bet, Dichter made no secret of his adamant opposition to the Gaza disengagement; today he’s planning the future of the West Bank for a party that came into being because of the Gaza disengagement.“
It seems that Larry Derfner, with what seems his particular perspective on Yesha land, can’t understand the logic behind this Olmert disengagement plan.
This author, on the other hand, grasps well the logic; the expulsions in Gush Katif and the Shomron emboldens the secular powers-to-be such that the current Olmert plan is nothing more than another step in a “full court press” effort to disengage, to divest Israelis of their Jewishness. Inherent in that is divesting them of Jewish land. What Olmert, Peres, Dichter, etc. don’t understand and have not the mental capacity to intellectualize is this; to the Arab, the Islamic, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew and they see that Israel doubts it’s title and rights to possess Jewish land in Chevron, in Gush Katif, in Yehuda and Shomron. The Arabs then assert what they see as the validity of their false, bogus claims and ask what rights does Israel have to be in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa and more?
This author shares Derfner’s sentiment; “This is not an encouraging sign of what’s likely to come after Election Day.” MB
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Monday, March 13th, 2006 @ 6:02 am
WELCOME TO HAMASTAN
BY: FERN SIDMAN
Speaking to an audience last night in Holon, Avi Dichter, who is number 5 on the Kadima list of Knesset candidates, outlined Kadima’s plans to evacuate and demolish most of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and to relocate their residents in those that remain.
The new Kadima plan would leave Israel with four or five isolated pockets of Israeli presence; a narrow finger 20 kilometers long from Rosh HaAyin to Ariel in the Shomron; parts of the Jordan Valley; and strips to the north, east and south of Jerusalem. The rest of Judea and Samaria would fall under the control of Hamas.
The communities that are to remain, According to the plan Olmert wishes to implement if he wins the elections, have long been mentioned as the “settlement blocs” of Ariel, Maaleh Adumim and Gush Etzion. Karnei Shomron-Kedumim and the Jordan Valley have occasionally, also been included in what might remain Israeli territory.
Likud Knesset faction head MK Gideon Saar said the new Kadima plan is a “prize for Hamas.” “The areas to be evacuated by Israel will immediately become new Hamas bases for attack against Israel and its citizens,” Saar said.
Among the communities to be razed under Ehud Olmert’s plan would be the following:
In the Binyamin Regional Council, north of Jerusalem: Shilo, Eli, Shvut Rachel, N’vei Tzuf, Psagot, Maaleh Michmas, and Maaleh Levonah.
In the eastern Gush Etzion: Tekoa, Nokdim (El-David). Maaleh Amos and Meitzad. In Samaria Council and northern Samaria: Kedumim, Itamar, Yitzhar, Elon Moreh, Har Bracha, Avnei Cheifetz, Mevo Dotan, Hermesh and Tapuach.
In southern Judea: Adora, Pnei Hever, Maon, Susia, Otniel, Negohot, and Mitzpeh Shalem.
And while this is happening, the intifada of Kassam rockets continues near the Gaza border.
One of five Kassam rockets landed near Kibbutz Carmiya, where dozens of expelled families from Gush Katif have been relocated. Another Kassam rocket caused damage to what is called “strategic installation” south of Ashkelon. Two people were hurt in the attack on the installation and were treated for shock. National infrastructures in Ashkelon include the following:
The Rotenberg Power Plant in southern Ashkelon is Israel’s second largest electric station, and supplies about a quarter of the country’s electricity. The Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline company (EAPC) in Ashkelon operates three oil pipelines linking Ashkelon, Ashdod and Haifa.. The Ashkelon seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, the largest destination plant of its kind in the world, is set to ultimately provide an annual 100 million cubic meters of water, or some 15 percent of the country’s domestic consumer demand.
And if we weren’t already concerned about national security, it has been reported by the PA news agency Duniya Alwatan that a senior official in the Hamas military, known by his nom de guerre, Abu Huzaifa, told the news agency that since the disengagement from Gaza, the Hamas has set up military bases in every city in Gaza. The bases have been training a new cadre of highly motivated fighters for the Jihad, or holy war against non-Muslims and the Jewish state in particular. More specifically, Abu Huzaifa said PA soliders are taught a number of techniques including firing rifles, shooting Kassam rockets, crawling under fences, and climbing up and down buildings. The instructors are Hamas terrorists who received training abroad.
According to Al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a statement aired by Al-Jazeera, he urged the ruling Hamas terror group to continue terror attacks on Israelis. “Your only alternative is to pursue the armed struggle until the liberation of Palestine and the building of an Islamic state,” al-Zawahiri told Al-Jazeera. He also exhorted, ” Nothing will do you good, but toting arms and taking revenge against your enemies, the Americans and the Jews… The crusaders and the Jews do not understand but the language of killing and blood.” Al-Zawahiri is believed to have masterminded the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks against America, as well as the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa.
Former Israeli UN Ambassador Dore Gold wrote an op ed piece Sunday outlining some of the extensive links that have been found linking Hamas and Al-Qaeda:
* In 2003, an Israeli ground unit in Gaza, seeking Hamas suspects, went into a school established by the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. Written materials that Israeli soldiers collected revealed the writings of a famous Saudi Wahabi religious authority, Sheikh Sulaiman al-Ulwan. His ideological entry into the world of Hamas immediately raised eyebrows. After all, his name was featured in a famous Osama bin Laden video clip from December 2001, when the al Qaeda leader entertained his entourage on camera by re-enacting with his hands the hijacked aircraft slamming into the World Trade Center on September 11th. In that video, one Saudi messenger entered the scene at the end, telling bin Laden that he brought with him a “beautiful fatwa” from al-Ulwan, who had justified the mass murder of Americans. Now his ideas have penetrated the Palestinians as well. And his Islamic religious ruling justifying suicide bombing attacks appeared on the Hamas Web site along with those of other al-Qaeda clerics.
* Bin Laden sent emissaries to Hamas in September 2000 and January 2001
* Israel arrested three Hamas terrorists in 2003 after they had returned from an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda chief Abu Zubaydah entered the world of terrorism through Hamas. And according to a 2004 FBI affidavit, Al Qaeda recruited Hamas members to conduct surveillance against potential targets in the United States.
* In 2003 and 2004, Israeli forces found Hamas posters that were distributed in West Bank cities that extolled the war being waged by Islamic militants in the Balkans, Chechnya and Kashmir. At the top was the portrait of Hamas leader Yassin alongside the portraits of bin Laden and Chechen militant leaders like Shamil Besayev, who took credit for the bloody attack on a Russian school in Beslan.
Gold also writes about Hamas and Al-Qaeda’s common source of recruits and grassroots support of the Muslim Brotherhood present in every country in the Arab world.
And with all these facts glaring us in the face, the Olmert government still insists on carving up more of Israel, destroying more Jewish settlements, forcibly evicting more Jews from their homes, and demolishing more communities. Giving up more land and expelling more Jews is not going bring peace nor will it assist it setting up new boundaries that will maintain a Jewish majority. Just ask those folks who were evicted from Gush Katif and Amona.