Number Two in Labor Has Serious Doubts About Olmert's Consolidation Plan

Aaron Lerner Date: 12 May 2006

"One must not ignore the feeling that a prize for terror is created as a
result of such processes. The question is how one neutralizes it. Some
viewpoints on the Palestinian side consider such unilateral actions as a
prize for terror and this is problematic. This is exactly what the
President of Iran was talking about when he compared Israel to a rotting
tree that can collapse in one fell swoop.

We must find the balance between the need to preserve a Jewish majority and
that it is forbiden to encourage terror.

Today it is already clear that one of the reasons for the victory of Hams in
the elections was the interpretation of part of the Moslem world of the
disengagement.

This is the reason that I have serious doubts about this matter. I don't
hide it.

To all this one must add the fact that the State prepared the disengagement
in a boorish manner and set inhuman standards with extreme bureaucratic
requirements on the families. This doesn't negate the fact that some of the
evacuees did not cooperate and were misled by the promises of their
leadership. But we have to learn from what happened."

Labor Party leader, Minister of Tourism Yitzhak Herzog

As quoted by Ben Caspit in Maariv on 12 May 2006 - page 4.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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