Posted on 11/20/2003 8:32:26 AM PST by Alouette
Gen. Yaakov Amidror, a religious Jew who headed IDF Military Intelligence, condemned the Geneva plan in yesterday's edition of Haaretz. He noted a number of dangerous concessions proposed by Yossi Beilin and the other Israelis who helped formulate the plan, including the ceding of the Temple Mount, which he said clearly indicates that the "Jewish nation is giving up on the center of its national identity, and giving it to its competitors who claim ownership of the land."
Amidror also bemoaned the willingness to give up almost all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, especially the Ariel area, which "greatly increases the number of Israelis that will have to be evacuated or expelled from their homes... and leaves [Israel's] central region exposed to every threat." The ex-intelligence chief wrote that the "unspoken" concession is that of "any security arrangements," noting that the two "isolated and worthless warning stations" called for by the Geneva plan are but a "wretched remnant of Yitzchak Rabin's demand for a military border on the Jordan River," and that the defense arrangements are even worse than those the PA agreed to during the Barak period.
Other points raised by Amidror: * All of Israel's security demands have been traded for a foreign military force and declarations of cooperation. * No Israeli force in the Jordan Valley or along Egyptian border to prevent terrorist infiltrations, or at crossings or seaports to prevent arms smuggling. * No Israeli rights to act against terrorists. * If the agreement falls apart, Israel will be in a much worse position than at present: "Those who wrote the Geneva plan did not learn a thing from Oslo, such as the need to ask what happens if the dream of peace turns out to be a nightmare." * Israel is at the mercy of international arbitrators regarding the number of Arab "refugees" who may "return" to Israel. * An Israeli promise to memorialize the Arab villages that existed before 1948 - "unbelievable," Amidror writes. * The plan obligates Israel to withdraw even if Palestinian terrorism continues. * Israel recognizes PA water rights, but not vice-versa. * The PA is granted a territorial corridor between Judea and Gaza, via which it can transport tanks - "and in such a case Israel can -- only complain."
The Geneva plan even allows for "Special Cemetery Arrangements" enabling Palestinian access to a cemetery in the German Colony neighborhood of western Jerusalem, on the central thoroughfare Emek Refaim St. Ten weeks ago, a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at a cafe on Emek Refaim St.; among the seven murdered victims were Dr. David Appelbaum and his daughter Nava, 20, who was to be married the next night.
In the meantime, however, the Supreme Court has nullified the ban by Israel's two broadcasting authorities on commercials on behalf of the Geneva document. Supreme Court President Aharon Barak headed a three-judge panel ruled in favor of the Geneva plan initiators and against the regulations disallowing commercials on political issues.
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