Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's four-stage disengagement plan

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/432763.html


Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's four-stage disengagement plan

Appendix A - Four-stage disengagement plan - Key principles

I. Background - Diplomatic and security significance

The State of Israel is committed to the peace process and endeavors to reach an agreed arrangement based on the vision presented by U.S. President George W. Bush.

The State of Israel believes it must take action to improve the current situation. The State of Israel has reached the conclusion that there is currently no partner on the Palestinian side with whom progress can be made on a bilateral process. Given this, a four-stage disengagement plan has been drawn up, based on the following considerations:

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II. Key points of the plan

A. The Gaza Strip

1.. The State of Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip, including all Israeli settlements, and will redeploy outside the area of the Strip. The method of the withdrawal, with the exception of a military presence in the area adjacent to the border between Gaza and Egypt (the Philadelphi route), will be detailed below.

2. Once the move has been completed, Israel will not cede the right to a permanent military presence in the territorial area of the Gaza Strip.

As a result of this, there will be no basis to the claim that the Strip is occupied land.

B. Judea and Samaria

1. The State of Israel will withdraw from northern Samaria (four settlements: Ganim, Kadim, Sa-Nur and Homesh) as well as all permanent military installations in the area, and will redeploy outside the evacuated area.

2. Once the move has been completed, Israel will not cede the right to a permanent military presence in the area.

3. The move will provide Palestinian territorial contiguity in the northern parts of Samaria.

4. The State of Israel, along with the international community, will help improve the transportation infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, with the goal of providing continuous transport for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.

5. The move will make it easier for Palestinians to live a normal life in Judea and Samaria, and will facilitate economic and commercial activity.

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VI. Real estate

A. In general, houses belonging to the settlers, and other sensitive structures such as synagogues will not be left behind. The State of Israel will aspire to transfer other structures, such as industrial and agricultural facilities, to an international third party that will use them for the benefit of the Palestinian population.

B. The Erez industrial zone will be transferred to an agreed-upon Palestinian or international body.

C. The State of Israel along with Egypt will examine the possibility of setting up a joint industrial zone on the border between Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
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'''Only Nixon can go to China'''

[newyorican]

1. Sharon delays to put Gaza pullout plan to cabinet vote: report

JERUSALEM, May 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may not put his Gaza pullout plan to a cabinet vote on Sunday due to concerns it will not be approved, local television stations said on Friday.

Sharon delays the crucial cabinet vote because he does notappear to have a majority of ministers to support it, the reports said, adding several ministers close to Sharon had urged the prime minister to delay the vote.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/29/content_1496861.htm

I heard this morning on Morning Sedition that the vote would be delayed to save Sharon the embarrassment of losing...

"Nixon was a drunken ass and a war criminal"

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2. Nixon

was a decent point guard who got kind of fat after he retired.


http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/432499.html

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3. I've been looking all over

but I haven't been able to find the Palestinain proposal for disengagement. Could someone please help me find the Palestinain plan for unilateral cessation of violence?

[drdon326]

5. Palestinain plan for unilateral cessation of violence?

joke of the year.

[Vladimir]

6. Disengagement and

cessation of violence are two different things, and by no means does one imply the other, at least within this context.

[Classical_Liberal]

7. They have denounced suicide bombings in recent weeks

This plan is unilateral, so you won't get one. It also isn't part of the roadmap. Sharon doesn't want negotiations, he wants the west bank and a the Palestinians locked up in a ghetto where he can cut off food and water.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. How does it hurt Sharon to leave the houses behind?

He's an asshole to core.

[SandyUSA]

8. Sharon has no real plan for peace -- his usual fakery

Quote from Alfred Lilienthal article in 2002:

The ultimate goal of Sharon in everything he does is still the same: the total end of the peace process, the expulsion of the Palestinians from their remaining areas, and the establishment of an ever-growing Greater Israel.

http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/showdown.htm

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9. I make no claims at being a psychic

Sharon is currently the only person offering anything at all. In a desert even dirty water looks good.

Only time will tell.