| Why we should vote Netanyahu and not Sharon or Feiglin! To: email@netanyahu.org, INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il IMRA'S WEEKLY COMMENTARY ON ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO Aaron Lerner, 14 November 2002 (Broadcast in English on Thursday nights at 10:00 PM on 98.7 FM and on 1539 AM throughout Israel - recording available on http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com and www.IsraelNationalRadio.com) On November 28 over 300,000 registered Likud members will be given the opportunity to vote against a Palestinian state. The mumbling is over. You don't have to read between the lines. There was Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on a prime time television interview last night saying that if he is reelected he will form a government with the Labor Party and that there will be a Palestinian state. Sharon even essentially threatened that the real way he sees to get us out of the economic mess we are in is by cutting a deal with the Palestinians. And he is confident that a deal can be cut a lot faster than people think. And that's only the beginning. We already know that Sharon accepts the "Road Map". That means a Palestinian state in 2003. A sovereign independent Palestinian state in 2003. "But the Palestinians won't honor their obligations so we won't ever reach a state" argue some. Now even if you think that Israel should base its survival on Palestinian non-compliance this argument does not apply to the "Road Map". Under the "Road Map", Israel is not in the driver's seat. It's a passenger. As it stands now, the "Quartet" is supposed to decide if the Palestinians are behaving themselves. At best Sharon suggests we rely on American compliance reports. This when American officials lied to Congress time and again certifying Palestinian compliance. Again - Sharon is openly talking about a Palestinian state. It isn't off beyond the horizon. It's in 2003. And if that isn't disturbing enough, it would appear that the Prime Minister of the sovereign State of Israel is clueless as to the significance of sovereignty. Mr. Sharon asserted yesterday that the Palestinians already had, in effect, a Palestinian state. Why? Because they have the institutions: a president, parliament, ministers. If this is what Mr. Sharon thinks are the defining features of a sovereign state, I can understand why he takes this matter so lightly. But there is a lot more to a sovereign state than institutions. A sovereign state is a sovereign state even if it breaks the agreements under which it came into existence. Israel may get bad press now when the IDF goes into Ramallah or closes down Gaza Port, but it's not an international incident. The story is completely different, the stakes considerably higher, when we are talking about a sovereign state of Palestine, protected by defense treaties with our enemies and supported by scores of nations willing to break any blockade or other restrictions we try to impose on the terror state. But Sharon appears oblivious to all this. A Palestinian state in 2003 is a goal - not a curse. And what does Binyamin Netanyahu say? Netanyahu knows what a Palestinian state means and he rejects it. And he has the INTELLECT and communications skills it will take to get America to understand that while Palestinian sovereignty may sound nice as part of aN utopian "vision" for the Middle East, it has no place in a stable and viable reality. Netanyahu recognizes that the deterrence policy has failed with the Palestinians - Sharon's goal of reaching quiet under cocked Palestinian guns simply doesn't work. Netanyahu calls for decisive rather than deterrent action. And Netanyahu recognizes the need to map out an economic program to pull Israel out of the recession. A program that does not hinge on sacrificing Israel's future with a Palestinian state. Will Netanyahu keep his word? Won't he fold? That's not even the issue. We have two real candidates - Sharon and Netanyahu. And one is saying he is for a Palestinian state and the other is against it. This isn't a vote over personalities. It is a vote for principles. And what about voting for a third candidate? Why not a protest vote for Moshe Feiglin? Because it is playing with fire. Take a look at the schedule and you will see that if the Likud is forced to burn time on a second round there will be next to no time left to form the Likud Knesset list and then run a serious campaign. No. It isn't 100% certain that a Likud government led by Netanyahu will prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. But there's no comparing these odds to the odds if Sharon wins the primaries - or if through some unforseen sequence of events the Labor Party prevails in January. A third candidate is playing with fire. And now that the Netanyahu-Sharon choice has become a choice on a Palestinian state this is no time for such risk taking. Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis) (mail POB 982 Kfar Sava) INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il |
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