Dit is voer voor rechtse Zionisten, die natuurlijk 'altijd al' hadden geweten dat disengagement niet werkt en slechts de Palestijnse wil om Israel te vernietigen zou versterken. Feit is dat velen dit niet hebben geweten, dat men oprecht hoopte dat de terugtrekking uit Gaza een opening naar vrede kon zijn, en de Palestijnen zouden proberen, met internationale hulp, om wat van de Gazastrook te maken. Natuurlijk had Israel een en ander beter kunnen doen en meer met de Palestijnen moeten coördineren, maar feit blijft dat Hamas na de Israelische terugtrekking de verkiezingen won en het aantal raketten op Israel fors opvoerde, een Israelische soldaat ontvoerde en meermaals probeerde in Israel aanslagen te plegen. Het debacle van de terugtrekking heeft rechts in Israel versterkt en mede geleid tot de overwinning van rechts in de verkiezingen van vorige week.
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Peres: I was wrong about disengagement
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST
President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that he had erred in supporting Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.
The revealing remarks come three years after Israel's evacuation of the volatile coastal strip which has since been seized by Hamas.
"Whatever will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the mistakes we made in leaving Gaza," Peres said in a question and answer session with a group of American Jewish leaders. "It should have been done otherwise. I was for leaving Gaza. I consider myself as one of the persons mistaken."
The dovish leader, who has long been a champion of Israeli territorial withdrawals, said that although "lessons must be drawn" from the 2005 unilateral Gaza pullout, demographic and democratic considerations still necessitate the creation of a Palestinian state.
"It doesn't change the fact that there is a [demographic] reality," he told the annual Israel meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "I want to make sure that the state we have remains Jewish."
The revealing remarks come three years after Israel's evacuation of the volatile coastal strip which has since been seized by Hamas.
"Whatever will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the mistakes we made in leaving Gaza," Peres said in a question and answer session with a group of American Jewish leaders. "It should have been done otherwise. I was for leaving Gaza. I consider myself as one of the persons mistaken."
The dovish leader, who has long been a champion of Israeli territorial withdrawals, said that although "lessons must be drawn" from the 2005 unilateral Gaza pullout, demographic and democratic considerations still necessitate the creation of a Palestinian state.
"It doesn't change the fact that there is a [demographic] reality," he told the annual Israel meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "I want to make sure that the state we have remains Jewish."
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