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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/opinion/16SAFI.html
The Sharon Plan of Disengagement
(New York Times) William Safire - "Back in November, so many plans were around," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told me Thursday, "from the Saudis, from Geneva, from the Arab League, and I saw we could not resist those pressures without a plan of our own. What could I do - destroy the Palestinian Authority? No - Israel cannot take on its shoulders the lives of three and a half million Palestinians. Sign a peace agreement? No - terror would only begin again. Leave as is? No." Because Palestinian leaders have allowed terrorists to wage war against Israel, turning the well-intentioned "road map" into a dead letter, Sharon proposed to establish security without them.