Hanegbi: 'Disengagement was a Mistake,' but Withdrawals Continue

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Thursday, October 5. 2006

Hanegbi: 'Disengagement was a Mistake,' but Withdrawals Continue

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi (Kadima) said in an interview with Israel Radio Thursday afternoon that the disengagement from Gaza was a mistake, "based on a number of parameters."

Hanegbi added that in the opinion of all Kadima members, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's convergence plan was no longer on the agenda.

Now that everyone in the ruling Kadima party has acknowledged this, why is an IDF commander being fired for saying essentially the same thing?

"The disengagement was perceived as weakness, and the weakness brought about attacks in Gaza and the North," said Hanegbi, who supported former prime minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.

According to Hanegbi, "it [disengagement] was not conducive to better security or to peace."

At the same time, Peretz has announced the evacuation of smaller settlements:

With War "Over" - Uprooting More Jews Set to Take Place

Israel's government appears determined to go ahead with the forced removal of Jews from so-called illegal communities in Samaria and Judea....These targeted Jewish outposts are small in size, usually comprising a handful of trailers or prefabricated huts, and established on Jewish lands.

By contrast, rapidly spreading Arab towns and villages throughout the disputed territories, many of them boasting shiny new mosques and minarets, and dotted with luxurious, illegally-constructed mansions, are virtually ignored by the Israeli authorities.

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Why give Hanegbi credence for anything that he says? He just another sleazy, cheesy, slimey Israeli politician with, as Limbaugh would say, "his wet finger out to see which way the wind blows." He speaks out now on the expulsion now, a year after the fact. And not based on ideology or on the cruelty and immorallity of kicking out Jews and seizing their property, and not over the Land of Israel. Hanegbi lacks any sensitivity on these issues.

He only speaks out because of the portrayal of Israel as weak. Jewish morality matters not a lick to Tzachi Hanegbi.

#1 Moshe on 2006-10-06 00:57 (Reply)

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