Sharon: "No peace while terror runs rampant"

Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun. 16, 2003 | NINA GILBERT

[yonif]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won Knesset approval for a policy statement on the road map for peace with the Palestinians, while focusing on its anti-terror aspects but making no mention of politically controversial elements such as the establishment of a Palestinian state at the end of the process.

Sharon won support from his Likud faction in the 57-42 vote after promising them in advance that his speech would focus on the war on terror. Education Minister Limor Livnat had asked that coalition discipline not be imposed on the vote, and Sharon agreed to the request while promising a palatable statement.

Several National Union MKs did not attend the session, while National Religious Party MK Yitzhak Levy walked out before the vote on Sharon's statement.

Addressing the Knesset, Sharon said Israel would not be able to reach a peace agreement as long as "terror is running rampant." He vowed that Israel would continue to fight terror as long as it continues, adding that the "war on terror is aimed to bring peace."

He noted that he was not required to bring the road map endorsed by his cabinet to the Knesset for approval because it is not a signed agreement. Sharon said that only after terror and incitement halts Israel would be willing to make "very painful concessions," and many accords would be signed.

In an earlier meeting, Sharon said the present wave of Palestinian terror attacks could be explained as birth pangs," of the process begun at the Aqaba summit.

He said that as long as terror continues Israel would not be able to advance with the peace process.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told the Knesset that a temporary cease-fire or "hudna" could not be a goal in itself, and the Palestinian Authority must uproot incitement and terror infrastructure.

The Knesset debate was initiated by Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On, who gathered the support of 40 MKs, or one-third of parliament, to summon the prime minister to take part in a discussion on the road map and give his position on it.

Gal-On questioned Sharon's intentions on implementing the road map and reaching a peace settlement with the Palestinians. "Is it like in Lebanon, are you are continuing to mislead us?" said Gal-On. "Does a country intending to make peace act like this?," added Gal-On, who was referring to the attempted assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

Likud MK Michael Ratzon warned the government against making moves that would enable the Palestinians to rehabilitate terror infrastructure.

MK Ahmed Tibi (Arab Movement for Change) said Sharon decided to target Rantisi on the same day as the Aqaba summit.

Labor MK Haim Ramon called for an international force to help implement an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, including the removal of settlements.

National Religious Party MK Shaul Yahalom said his party opposes the road map and the establishment of a Palestinian state, but would be willing to consider "some concessions," in exchange for true peace with the Palestinians.

Yahalom censured Sharon for supporting the road map peace plan, which he said is "nothing more than another Oslo."

[yonif]

The democratic process at work. Read about a few positions in the Israeli Knesset on the roadmap.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Yonif. Anyone who assumes Isael speaks with one voice is in for a bit of a rough ride.

[TLBSHOW]

bttt

[yonif]

This speech was not written by the White House.

[zarf]

Slowly, Hamas and it's ilk are going to be isolated and the Pallies will have to come to terms with an independent Jewish state.

All the bitching and moaning aside, Hamas and friends are creating their own cage in which to be eliminated.

[ellhow]

God this is getting old. Ariel Sharon launches an assassination every time there is some calm or hope for peace, and then when the terrorist revenge happens, he can sit there and say "no negotiations while we're under attack". This guy is giving president Bush the shaft. Israel, please do what you did last time and double Shinui's votes again. I reckon they are the best hope. Shinui wants to reduce welfare and they are not like the Likud, nor socialist like Labor.

[Alouette]

double Shinui's votes again. I reckon they are the best hope. Shinui wants to reduce welfare and they are not like the Likud, nor socialist like Labor.

Shinui are fascists.

[cajun-jack]

whatttttttttttt??????????????????????????????

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Did you forget to add the "sarcasm: off" command at the end of your comments?

[anotherview]

Shinui are fascists.

Oh, good grief! Look, I know you bash Shinui and Tommy Lapid at every possible opportunity, but fascists? Come on! Get real! Show me how they are fascists. Back up your wild accusations with facts.

Some Israelis (myself included) do not want the Haredim or even the Orthodox community in general dictating what they daily lives of the 70% of Israelis who are not Orthodox should or should not be. If that makes us fascists you have no idea what the word means.

[ApesForEvolution]

Isn't there a gas chamber somewhere you are neglecting?

You post straight from America's RAT playbook.

Ignorance is bliss, so they say...or, you are more than likely just another intellectually dishonest RAT.

Either way, start packing for the Gaza Strip. You might have then found your calling.

[anotherview]

You show amazing ignorance of Israeli politics. The positions of Shinui and Ariel Sharon on the roadmap and the peace process are virtually identical. Doubling Shinui's mandates to 30 would not change policy one little bit when it comes to dealing with Palestinian terror. Also, most of Shinui's increase (from 6 to 15 mandates) came from disaffected Labor voters, not from Likud. Likud jumped from 19 to 40 mandates in the last election.

Also, you seem to have a very twisted view of what is going on. When America is attacked, as it was on 9/11, and President Bush responds as he did in Afghanistan or Iraq, that is called a "War on Terror". When a homicide bomber blows up a bus on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, killing 17 and wounding 75, how is Ariel Sharon supposed to respond? His policies are now no different that Ehud Barak's were after the current intifada started since he is also negotiating under fire. Tell me, should President Bush have negotiated with Osama bin Laden or anyone else from al-Queda? How is Hamas different?

Ariel Sharon giving George W. Bush the shaft? Not hardly. The Israeli government has started dismantling outposts in Judea and Samaria and is about to turn security in Gaza and Bethlehem over to the P.A. under the terms of the roadmap. What have the Palestinians done to comply with Phase 1 or their commitments at Aqaba? Have they fought terror? Stopped incitement? Why is the side who is actually doing something towards the roadmap the one always cricized?

[ApesForEvolution]

All rethorical questions that hell-ow surely has no honest answers for...

[dagoofyfoot]

Ariel Sharon launches an assassination every time there is some calm or hope for peace


And just what freakin' turnip truck did you fall off of Pal?


I can't believe anyone who follows this conflict with any kind of regularity would spout something this lame out of their pie-hole and expect to be taken seriously!


Why don't you take your stinkin' ilk over to D.U. where you freakin' belong. People like you make me so f@*kin' mad! The only thing these jihad freaks want is the complete destruction of Israel, and you got the balls to call this terrorist revenge?


Go take a really long walk off a very short pier @sshole!

[ApesForEvolution]

I like your tag BTW...

[JudgemAll]

The war of peace against Israel. There are no third party of peace. A three way duel is illegal, for ultimately the "third" party of "peace" will gang up against proper authority. Peace is only obtained after a 2 way duel is settled, fighting to end and not to start the war.

[JudgemAll]

God this is getting old. Ariel Sharon launches an assassination every time there is some calm or hope for peace, and then when the terrorist revenge happens, he can sit there and say "no negotiations while we're under attack".

We know, Palestinian terrorists need all the social recognition they can, and all the external media support they can. But it's not about popularity, nor about media support, nor about social recognition, nor about fixing broken heart, it is about truth and individual media revolting against the social media.

In the end the murderers of peace and Palestinian terrorists are the media, the PLO and terrorism itself. It's not Israel, nor the Jews.

[JudgemAll]

This guy is giving president Bush the shaft.

Keep mouthpiecing for the media and protecting the terrorists from judicial injunction like this and you will get Bush's shaft.

[JudgemAll]

This guy is giving president Bush the shaft. Israel, please do what you did last time and double Shinui's votes again

THe party can do nothing. It is an individual right to kill terrorists. It is not the parties to manage that. And in the end a third party in politics is illegal. You cannot have 3 way duels, because one guy always gang up with one against the other alone.