NEW YORK, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today hailed the Knesset's passage of the plan to disengage from Gaza. The Knesset voted 67-45 in favor of the plan which calls for a 4-phased Israeli disengagement from settlements in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli cabinet approved the plan in June. Today's historic vote in the Knesset is an affirmation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's and his Government's vision of promoting Israel's long-term strategic interests, while improving the situation on the ground in the territories," said Barbara B. Balser, ADL National Chair, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "The vote reflects Israeli public opinion in support of the plan.
In their Friday Op-Ed column, "A defensive war: Israel's determined enemies leave it no option," Republican Whip Eric Cantor and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer claim that Ariel Sharon's goal with the Gaza disengagement "was an international show of good faith to kick-start a moribund peace process by giving the Palestinians what they asked for: full control of Gaza. This claim is notoriously false. Dov Weisglass, architect of the Gaza disengagement plan and former Sharon chief of staff, indicated as much in an interview with Haaretz:
Thousands of headlines around the world have reached a similar deduction: "Gaza Engulfed in Chaos." While the chronic failure to place Gaza's 'anarchy' in a proper framework persists, almost all news media, without fail, have managed to link Gaza's disorder to Israel's Disengagement Plan of late last year. "After Israel: Who Can Run Gaza?" asks the Christian Science Monitor, as if occupation is a legitimate form of governance, as if Gaza is anything but an exclusively Palestinian entity. Never mind that. Never mind that a few months of Palestinian failure to control Gaza - with very few causalities resulting from the chaos - espoused greater media outrage, questioning and scrutiny than all 38-years of the catastrophic Israeli occupation combined. Never mind that Israeli bombardments and...
NEW YORK Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was heckled during a speech to Jewish leaders on Sunday, and about 1,500 demonstrators staged a noisy street protest against the Gaza disengagement plan he was defending. Several protesters stood up during Sharon's speech, one shouting "Jews don't expel Jews." The prime minister had to pause when the interruption grew louder and the protesters were escorted out of the Baruch College auditorium in Manhattan. He then received a warm ovation from the crowd.
In Israeli discourse, Israel ended the occupation in Gaza when it evacuated its settlers from the Strip, and the Palestinians' behavior therefore constitutes ingratitude. But there is nothing further from reality than this description. In fact, as was already stipulated in the Disengagement Plan, Gaza remained under complete Israeli military control, operating from outside. Israel prevented any possibility of economic independence for the Strip and from the very beginning, Israel did not implement a single one of the clauses of the agreement on border-crossings of November 2005. Israel simply substituted the expensive occupation of Gaza with a cheap occupation, one which in Israel's view exempts it from the occupier's responsibility to maintain the Strip, and from concern for the welfar...
NEW YORK - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was heckled during a speech to Jewish leaders Sunday, and up to 1,500 demonstrators staged a noisy street protest outside against the Gaza disengagement plan he was defending. As Sharon spoke, protesters scattered throughout the crowd at Baruch College stood up, one shouting, "Jews don't expel Jews.
THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING OF THE Palestinian Authority has released a post-disengagement plan for Gaza that is beautiful and filled with hope for this strip of land on the Mediterranean. It reads like a vision, looking toward a future of peace and prosperity, economic development together with cultural and educational institutions. Perhaps a Palestinian Herzl needs to arise now in Gaza, to help make this vision of development come true by convincing his people that like their neighbors the Israelis, they, too, can succeed in making the desert bloom, literally and metaphorically. The Israeli withdrawal can be the catalyst to turn the 10-year plan for Gaza into reality -- it needn't remain just a vision on paper.
In the five years of Israel's brutal suppression of the Palestinian uprising against the occupation, I never once saw or heard a segment as long and with as much sentimental, human detail as I did here; never once remember a reporter allowing a sympathetic young Palestinian woman, whose home was just bulldozed and who lost everything she owned, tell of her pain and sorrow, of her memories and her family's memories; never got to listen to her reflect on where she would go now and how she would live. And yet in Gaza alone more than 23,000 people have lost their homes to Israeli bulldozers and bombs since September 2000 -- often at a moment's notice - on the grounds that they "threatened Israel's security." The vast majority of the destroyed homes were located too close to an IDF military ...
...She talked about the tree she planted in front of her home with her brother when she was... ly in Gaza after Sharon's "Disengagement" Plan - that great step toward peace - was announc...
Humphries comments that Isaeli president Ariel Sharon's unilateral "disengagement plan" in the West Bank and Gaza represents Israel's biggest push for the "Judaization" of Galilee and Negev, which is a long-running struggle of apartheid that generally started in the 1950s. He mentions that such struggle will not end in Palestine/Israel while land and rights remain based on ethnic or religious affiliations--a fact that is greatly true and relevant in the Galilee as it is in Gaza.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he would press ahead with his Gaza disengagement plan despite a vote by his Likud party a day earlier blocking efforts to broaden the governing coalition. The prime minister is determined to continue with the disengagement plan and the diplomatic process and he will try to build a stable coalition," Mr. Sharon's office said in a statement.
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