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Israel may annex West Bank territory if no progress with PA
by Open-Publishing - Sunday 2 October 20051 comment
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Jerusalem, Sept 28 (PTI) Israel may annex parts of West Bank territory, drawing borders unilaterally, if the current diplomatic deadlock with the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues, a close confidante of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned today.
"If we see that the standstill continues despite the fact that it is a standstill in a diplomatic situation which is ’easy on Israel’, there may be room to consider turning disengagement into a strategy," Eyal Arad, a senior strategy advisor to Sharon told Israel Radio.
The policy would comprise of "a strategy of unilaterally determining the permanent borders of the state of Israel," Arad said.
The significance of the policy, he said, was not "withdrawal to and continuing to hold territory that we will not evacuate, rather, withdrawal to and annexation of territory that we would not evacuate."
The radio also quoted the Prime Minister’s Office as saying that "there is no plan for a further unilateral withdrawal." PTI
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3 October 2005, 01:03
Israel has planned all these acts of ethnical cleansing for a long time, with help of the U.S. and very carefully, too. Because the acts of a rogue state never to be considered as terrorist, but the helpless Palestine population everything can be done to them.
The Arab states should come to a conclusion get united or loose everything. Also Egypt should not be founded anymoore by the golf state, because of it’s companionship with the U.S..