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Dissing Disengagement

As expected, Likud Party members have voted resoundingly against Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan by a 12-14% 20% margin. This represents an even higher margin than was suggested by recent polls, suggesting that perhaps yesterday’s brutal terror attack did play a part in the final result.

While some may have thought that yesterday’s murderous attack would influence people to vote for the plan, this line of thought did not take into account the constituency that was voting.

In my opinion, the Likud members who voted against did so for one or more of the following reasons:

  • Practical argument: Israel cannot unilaterally withdraw during its war on terror (see Natan Sharansky’s comments in this report). This not only rewards terror, but can also undermine Israel’s security.

    This argument would have played a large part in the result, especially after the brutal terror attack yesterday.

  • Ideological argument: The land of Israel belongs to Israel, and there should not be a PLO Arab state.

    For more on this, see Joseph Alexander Norland’s post on Israpundit.

  • Principle argument: Even if we accepted the idea of a PLO Arab state, why should the areas currently inhabited by Jews be cleansed of them? This is ethnic cleansing. Just like Israel has Arab villages, so should a future Arab state accept Jewish areas.

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    David Lange

    A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
    Picture of David Lange

    David Lange

    A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media

    1 thought on “Dissing Disengagement”

    1. Sharon is a man who is willing to take actions that are risky to obtain peace.

      Not that the rabid anti israeli western press will ever give any credit for that.

      peace is IMPOSSIBLE unless it involves handing the Whole of israel to the murderers of Jews !

      Sharon must therefore force a peace down their throats and get out with the 8000 who will be gradually butchered by the pals.

      israel has lost enough young men!

      Let the pals go back to killing each other Or turn on their saudi, iraqi, syrian and egyotian paymasters and commit Jihad over there.

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