Don’t Believe A Word

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By Uri Avnery
10 October, 2004
Gush Shalom


When Ariel Sharon announced his plan for “unilateral disengagement”, the media reported that the Peace Now movement was preparing a big public campaign in support. The Prime Minister’s office asked them to desist, fearing that such a campaign would cause the extreme right to oppose it.

Peace Now was not the only “leftist” group that waxed enthusiastic about the plan. The chiefs of the Labor Party declared that it was really their own plan and that, therefore, it was their duty to join the government and help Sharon to implement it.

I was one of the very few who immediately raised their voice against the plan. I argued (http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article282.html)

that it was really a right-wing plan for annexing most of the West Bank, burying the peace process and deceiving public opinion in Israel and abroad.

I was certain of this, because I know Sharon. I have been watching the man for 50 years and have written three biographical essays about him. I know what he thinks and I know how he operates.

http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-avnery101004.htm

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1. I respect Uri

But there is no need for him to pretend that he had any great insight about the "Quit Gaza Get West Bank" plan. Sharon's officials admitted what it was about in public.