TNR: Long live GOP-Kadima friendship!

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This TNR editorial is 100.00% pure PR for Israeli Kadima party, it has nothing to do with anything close to regional analysis.

1. The Pragmatist: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20051212&s=editorial121205
Sharon is not a believer in this hoary "peace process." Yet he is also not a believer--at least no longer--in the equally fanciful notion of a "greater Israel" from the Jordan to the sea. He has become, instead, a very practical man who wants to take practical steps that will secure Israel's future as both a democratic and Jewish state. This means that he is willing--even eager--to let as many Palestinians as possible now under Israel's control go free with their houses and their land and do as they wish, so long as their state, such as it is, does not endanger Jewish life. He will not cling to the many dozens of sparsely populated and scattered Israeli communities surrounded by historic Arab districts in the West Bank, and he is prepared to endure the abuse of the far right for uprooting them. In any case, he grasps fully that they would be very difficult to protect.

2. Wiki on Sharon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon

3. Wiki on Kadima: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadima

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