Posted on 03/05/2006 5:55:32 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Kadima's expulsion plan unmasked Olmert says Road Map dead, Israel must retreat
By Ryan Jones
March 5th, 2006
Israeli acting-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sees Hamas' recent take over of the Palestinian Authority as the final nail in the coffin of the United States-backed Road Map peace plan, and believes as a result Israel must run for the hills (or in its case, for the indefensible coastal plain).
If, as current polls predict, Olmert is installed as Israel's official leader following this month's general election, he will immediately seek international (American) backing for a sweeping unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria that will dwarf the one carried out by his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, in northern Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
As detailed by top Kadima candidate Avi Dichter to an Israeli audience Saturday evening, Olmert's "disengagement" will see 90 percent of all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria reduced to rubble and their populations - numbering somewhere in the neighborhood of 90,000 persons - relocated to "Israel proper."
A large portion of the 5,000 Jews expelled from Gaza and northern Samaria last year continue to live devoid of permanent housing and steady employment. With that disengagement now a distant memory, the refugees' plight has been largely forgotten by the majority of their countrymen.
But the resulting trauma to a few uprooted "settlers" is as unlikely to deter Washington as it has Olmert and his circle.
According to top US political commentators, the Bush Administration is altering its thinking regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict, and is expected to put its full weight behind a large-scale Israeli withdrawal as a means of somehow correcting the mistake of backing unrestricted elections in the PA - which opened the door for Hamas' landslide victory.
In return for the pullout, senior political sources told Ha'aretz Jerusalem will ask Washington to officially recognize the retreat lines as Israel's new permanent borders, irreversibly severing key areas of the Jews' biblical homeland from the modern State of Israel.
Some of the more recognizable communities slated for removal include:
Shiloh - home to the Ark of the Covenant for over 400 years and de facto capital of Israel during the time of the Judges (Judges 18; I Samuel 4) Elon Moreh - site where God met with Abraham to show him the land his descendents would inherit (Genesis 12:6-7) Tekoa - home to the Prophet Amos (Amos 1:1) Maon - home of David's wife Abigail (I Samuel 25)
This must be a joke. Pulling back will only encourage the Palestinians. Why give them territory free and placing the sea at your back with no escape? The Road Map for peace was crap from beginning to end . You cant make peace with a rabid dog.
Can anyone tell me if the word Jew originates from the place name of Judea?
The book of Revelation predicts the attack on Israel in the last days, and the defeat of the attackers. Abandoning claim to Samaria and Judea appears to be an attack from within!
Pulling out of the West Bank is what emboldened them to begin with! If this story it true, this is shear madness!
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History has shown that anyone, or country, that has tried to give away, or take, Israel's land has faced severe consequences.
I highly recommend the book, Israel: The Blessing or the Curse for more info.
this would be a major foreign policy misstep for the bushies.
Major foreign policy misstep in God's Book
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Thats two of us that think that way.
This is absolutely insane. Secular Zionism is dead and gone. It's time for Mashiach!
How much longer will this insanity go on? Everything seems to be falling apart all at once . . .
Something tells me everything is falling exactly into place as per G-d's plan.
He would be FOR this sort thing. We need bibi back.
I have never seen a nation commit suicide in my lifetime.
Now, I'm seeing it.
I agree. We need Mashiach soon.
bibi seemed like the only one who resist best. and NM may very well go back to mexico after they exercise 'right of return'
Well, yes, Jew comes from the Tribe of Judah. But you distort history by saying that the Church falsifies this history.
Because after Solomon Israel split into two parts, the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel. Later, the kings of Israel sinned flagrantly before the Babylonian Exile, and as a result the ten northern tribes were dispersed or destroyed and never returned. They are referred to as the ten lost tribes.
Modern Jews descend mainly from Judah and Benjamin. But there were probably also members of some of the other tribes who stayed in the southern kingdom, so it seems likely that at least some of those tribes are among the ancestors of the Jews.
Correction - I meant Bibi
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