http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1068974829350These supposedly apolitical voices have spoken and their prescriptions are in: negotiations under fire and unilateral withdrawal. How many times do the people of Israel have to resoundingly reject such formulas before it will no longer be considered so enlightened to offer them again?
Twice the Labor Party ran campaigns in which it advocated negotiating under the threat of terrorism, and twice it was rejected by a landslide. Yet lately the public has been treated to three media flashes: the dissenting pilot's letter, Yossi Beilin's Geneva Initiative, and now the four Shin Bet chiefs. Perhaps if the public is told often enough that it has changed its mind, then fact will follow fiction.
We too are frustrated with the government's seeming contentment with an ongoing stalemate with no end in sight and little evident direction. But if elections were held tomorrow, we believe that the public would once again defeat the advocates of unilateral surrender and choose those who believe that there can be no peace until the Palestinians are forced or choose to abandon terrorism.
The public is not always right, but in this case we believe it has much greater strength, acuity, and wisdom than those who seek to unseat its elected leaders. What is more, it is precisely the advocates of surrender who, by giving Palestinians who push the terror strategy hope, are prolonging the war.
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