‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’

[shira]

Israel should withdraw from the West Bank, even without a Palestinian partner

A month before prime minister Sharon suffered a stroke, in January 2006, he was on the phone with Eitan. Four months after Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, the two discussed a preliminary plan to leave the West Bank as well, while maintaining the maximum number of Israeli settlements under Israeli control.

“Sharon knew that we must disengage from the Palestinians in the West Bank too; that we can’t continue occupying a foreign people,” Eitan told The Times of Israel.

Sharon dubbed his plan “the mosaic separation,” because it left most Israeli settlements intact, allowing isolated Palestinian villages access to large urban centers through an intricate system of underpasses and tunnels.

“Arik [Sharon] said: Let’s divide Judea and Samaria and take roughly one-third for ourselves, leaving two-thirds for the Arabs,” Eitan said. “Under this plan, the Jordan Valley and the Judean Desert would remain ours.”

With the Palestinian body politic divided today between Gaza and the West Bank — while internal rifts within the PLO prevent “even the signing of an interim agreement” — Eitan said he would advise Netanyahu to implement the Sharon plan immediately.

“We must disconnect from them [the Palestinians] as much as possible,” Eitan said, adding that he would even favor a plan attributed to former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of handing over the area known as “the Triangle” in northwest Israel — with its 300,000 Arab citizens — to the future Palestinian state.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/sharon-was-about-to-leave-two-thirds-of-the-west-bank/

so much for the failed meme about evil zionist expansionism

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. Eitan is an idiot.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. "so much for the failed meme about evil zionist expansionism"

Sharon dubbed his plan “the mosaic separation,” because it left most Israeli settlements intact, allowing isolated Palestinian villages access to large urban centers through an intricate system of underpasses and tunnels.

Shira, this is the same old smelly bag of manure that you keep on trying to resell as a rose.

Mosaic separation? That means a patchwork or Israeli control within the West Bank; assuring that a Palestinian state would not be viable. Same old bag of manure.

Lets steal 30% from the Palestinians?

Oops, sorry, Arabs. These racist fucks can't even call them what they are. Same old racist bag of manure.

What do you call the Palestinians, Shira? Do you call them Arabs as well?

Oh, just for you.

[shira]

3. Your lot keeps claiming expansionism, greater Israel, no Palestinian state

This shows just the opposite.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. No, it shows precisely the expansionist goal of the Israeli government.

Sort of like Dov Weisglass and his putting the peace process in "formaldehyde" interview.