I have a different take... I think this is a huge sherade inorder to delay the peace negotiations and effectively stop them. Israel wants to impose it's own solution to the palestinian problem, and they have effectively done so since the earliest days of the Yishuv. Olmert's continuing excuse to Condi regarding Israel's extremely slow implementation of lifting checkpoints, easing the seige, ect., is that he is under immense pressure from all sides of the government. In the meantime, Bibi the enemy of peace getting ready to move in and take over as P.M. Barak will probably concede defeat early given Labor's constant decline since 2000.
Sharon once commented on the Gaza disengagement:
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The Gaza withdrawal would allow Israel to delay negotiations, and a Palestinian state, until such time that their leadership abandons violence. The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians." Ariel Sharon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ofcourse, Olmert was sharon's right hand man... and he took over the Kadima after god's token gift for the palestinians, sharon the butcher having a stroke.
The jerusalem post used to be called the Palestine post until Israel's establishment.
700,000 or 25% of palestinians have been detained by Israel since 1967. Kangaroo trials, indefinite illegal detention of thousands for years without contact with attorneys or family, torture and humiliation. Surely no palestinian is above Israel's racist laws.
Lets not forget extrajudicial killings, american made f-16s bombarding innocent civilians that murder and maim and accomplish the israeli 'justice' of killing 'suspected' enemies of the state along with their children, bretheren, neighbors and parents. wonderful justice.
Life for jews in Israel is good, (at the cost of palestinian blood, water, land and freedom ofcourse...) The democratic process (putting aside my suspicion of slimy zionist capitalist nwo "democracy") is to be envied. The arab dictators, uncle sam's lapdogs, are a little more worried now that they see that zionist murderers are indeed better than them in representing the interests of their people of interest.