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by kcurie From the front page ~ whataboutbob
Amazing!!! Speechless.. incredible... I hardly can believe it.. But is is true, it is absolutely true. There are lot of things happening in the Middle East. is it Bush? .. or is it Democracy? or the other big D... Demography.. Short after the withdraw from Gaza another earthquake.. The first, moving out from Gaza was not really that big.. and after this movement, the number of palestinians under occupation are a minority (minority compared with the jews around Israel)... But now....A true democratic election is in the horizon....and Israel having different real options is not a fact of life.... Follow be below..
So, I will keep it short.
Palestinians were going to outnumber jews... Proper movement? Move out of Gaza (1.4 M) and drag-stop the peace process, where stopping the peace process means to draw the border if a Palestinian State or group of Cantons (as the Israeli government wished). And now , suddenly, even before the peace process could be stopped once and for all and draw the final line we have new elections. A new leader of the Labour gets there: Peretz. He gets out of the government, forces new elections and drives the Labor Party strongly to the left on economical and social issues. Suddenly defending the Oslo process is no longer an impossible mark on the left... And today Haaretz
A massive majority of some 80 lawmakers approved eight bills to dissolve the Knesset on Monday evening. President Moshe Katsav said Monday evening he would accept a decision made by lawmakers to disband the Knesset and hold early elections on March 28.
"My goal is that, during the interim period until elections, the state will continue to operate properly. The prime minister's hands must not be tied," Katsav said. Early on Sharon had left the party
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday he left his Likud party because he didn't want to waste time with political wrangling or squander the opportunities created by the Gaza pullout. However, Sharon ruled out unilateral withdrawals in the West Bank, and said he remains committed to the internationally-backed road map plan which calls for a negotiated peace deal culminating in a Palestinian state.
"There is no additional disengagement plan," he said, referring to the unilateral Gaza withdrawal. "There is the road map." Sharon said that it is likely more West Bank settlements will be dismantled as part of a final peace deal. He reiterated that the Palestinians have to meet their obligations, including dismantling militant groups, before progress can be made on the road map.
Likud moves even more to the right.. if possible Katz ordered the distancing of all Likud members who are also active members in other parties or political movement. According to Katz, individuals with conflicted interests must not be permitted to remain members of the Likud.
Right-wing lawmaker Effi Eitam (National Zionist Party) on Monday condemned Sharon's decision to quit the Likud and establish a new centrist party, telling Israel Radio that Sharon "is leaving the Likud to return Israel to the 1967 borders." He also tried to get Mofaz, the defence minister with him but he could not make it. He could make a third....
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to lure prominent Likud members to his new National Responsibility party suffered a blow Monday evening when Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz announced in a press conference that he has decided to stay in the Likud and run for party leadership. Sharon spoke to Mofaz on Monday morning and asked him to show "national responsibility" by joining his new party. Sharon told Mofaz that should he join, he would remain defense minister.
Meanwhile, Sharon on Monday night obtained his goal of attracting one-third of the Likud MKs to the National Responsibility party, entitling it to some of Likud's state funding. So, there is election.. and there is an option.. This is the first bill that Labour-Peretz would propose...since it is the first he has already proposed.
Last week, a few days after being elected as leader of the Labor Party, MK Amir Peretz - along with MKs Yuli Tamir and Ilana Cohen - submitted to the Knesset a new bill for the "voluntary evacuation of the residents of Judea and Samaria [the northern West Bank]." According to the bill, if at least 60 percent of the residents of a community located in the West Bank express their agreement to be evacuated, the government will evacuate that community within no more than six months from the time the residents make their request. According to another clause, the community will be subject to the compensation agreements as defined in the law governing the implementation of the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. The initiators of this legislation say that the disengagement plan constituted a tangible example of the state's ability to produce a suitable system of compensation for residents evacuated from their homes. The bill, they say, will make possible the creation of an appropriate and reasonable framework for a graduated evacuation over time, without compelling residents to move to temporary housing and while saving a considerable amount of resources.
Some movement.... which will end in..... UPDATE: Poll (left-wing) you may be interested regarding the compensation bill and the settlerrs' ideology |
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