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How far will the Lord allow this current government to go
with their plans in dissecting Israel is yet to be seen. But
one thing I am sure of, is that the Quartet along with Israel
will ultimately come to a place where the Lord will tolerate
no more. The prophet Zechariah tells of a future invasion that
destroys and kills 2/3 of Israel's population. If this totally
insane division of Israel's promised land continues, ( which
would require the removal of 100,000 to 200,000 Israelis ) there
is no question it will lead to the fulfillment of Zechariah's
prophecy in chapter 12:8
Israel weighs unilateral pullout from 90 percent
of West Bank
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM - Friday, October 14, 2005 JERUSALEM
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The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is examining plans
for a multi-stage unilateral withdrawal from as much as 90 percent
of the West Bank.
Officials said the Israeli withdrawal plans have been discussed
with the United States. On Oct. 20, President George Bush was
scheduled to meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas,
and last week Bush assured a Palestinian delegation that Israel
would withdraw from additional areas of the West Bank.
Officials said the Defense Ministry and military have been reviewing
a range of options for unilateral withdrawal in the West Bank
by 2007, Middle East Newsline reported. They said the National
Security Council has drafted options for the removal of between
10,000 and 100,000 Jews from the area.
"Only unilateral [withdrawal] can work in this era,"
[Res.] Brig. Gen. Eyval Giladi, a senior adviser to Sharon, said.
"Israel determines where, when and how it withdraws."
Officials said any unilateral withdrawal plan would be facilitated
by the construction of the security wall and fence in the West
Bank. "Within months or even weeks, the communities not
included in the wall will be isolated and life will become increasingly
harder for them," an official said. "In some ways,
it will be similar to what took place in [the Jewish settlement
bloc of] Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip."
Another option drafted by the council was for an Israeli pullout
from 90 percent of the West Bank and the removal of more than
100 Jewish communities. Officials said this option has been discussed
by Sharon and supported by several senior ministers, including
Vice Premier Ehud Olmert.
Officials said that by 2007 many of the Jewish communities in
the West Bank located outside the wall would either disintegrate
or be dismantled by the military. They said the military would
also remove Jewish communities in the northern and central West
Bank as part of a plan to provide the Palestinians with territorial
contiguity from Jenin to Ramallah.
By November, officials said, the Defense Ministry plans to begin
construction of the wall at 15 points along the Etzion Bloc,
which Sharon has vowed to maintain in any peace settlement with
the Palestinians. The Defense Ministry has drafted maps for a
wall that would encompass a narrow Jewish enclave and exclude
Israeli communities in the eastern and southern portion of the
region.
National Security Council chief Giora Eiland has presented a
plan for the removal of 17 Jewish communities in the northern
and central West Bank as part of the first stage of the unilateral
withdrawal, officials said.
They said the communities consisted of 8,000 people.
In a speech prepared for delivery at the Likud Party Central
Committee in late September, Sharon proposed the evacuation of
Jewish communities outside three settlement areas: the Etzion
Bloc, the Ariel Bloc and the Jordan Valley. These blocs would
be ringed by security zones patrolled by the Israeli military.
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