Another Country Heard From
David Kimche, former Rabin aide, former Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Iran-Contra figure and architect of Ariel Sharon’s disastrous Lebanon invasion in the early 1980s, not only thinks separation (UO still prefers “disgorgement”) is a good idea, he’s committed his organization to gathering a million Israeli signatures in favor of the idea.
WITHDRAWAL from the Gaza Strip and from the isolated settlements in Judea and Samaria would lessen the tremendous burden in manpower, materiel and budget of the defense forces; enable them to be used more effectively to lessen the threat of terror attacks; reduce the points of friction between Israelis and Palestinians; lessen the danger of violence spiraling out of control and into a regional conflagration; and, above all, it would safeguard the continuation of a Jewish, democratic State of Israel by saving it from the negative demographic trend which is turning the Jewish population between the Jordan River and the sea into a minority…It would free us from the moral burden of lording over another people. It would break the taboo against dismantling settlements.
(Link via Tres Producers.)
