By Barak Ravid : Candidate for U.S. envoy: Israel must unilaterally quit West Bank
Talkback
Title:Unilateral withdrawal - this is Convergence
Name:Reid
City: MaranaState:
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Oren is advocating Sharon`s convergence program. The Palestinian`s could have gotten another withdrawal in 2005/2006 if they had restrained the rocket attacks from Gaza.

The evacuation of Gaza was a devastating attack on the `One State Solution`. If the Pals gave up the PA and demanded Israeli citizenship, the Israelis could say `sure`. However, since there are no Jews in Gaza, we don`t want it - Period.

The Israelis could turn to a district method of selection of the Knesset (and a little US style gerrymandering) take the resultant 5.8M Jews, 3.6M Pal nation and come up with a permanent 75% Jewish majority in the Knesset.

Hamas knew this and successfully destroyed Israeli sentiment for unilateral withdrawal.

Everyone put Olmert down for his 95% of WB offer based on Annapolis. Abbas refused to negotiate any of his Annapolis based offers. Now, the no peace treaty unilateral withdrawal to Israeli desired borders is back on the table.