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JonathanInTelAviv: "David, Israel did just that a few years ago when we left Gaza... your plan and mine (I was *for* it) failed big-time."
Not according to Dov Weisglass, then a top advisor Ariel Sharon, who explained that Israel's disengagement from Gaza was intended to freeze the peace process in order to "prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state":
"The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that's necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians. ...
"[T]he rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did. The significance is the freezing of the political process. And when you freeze that process you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package that is called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed from our agenda indefinitely."
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