ISRAEL Breaking News: Netanyahu Resigns over Gaza Pullout

LadyEagle · Aug 7, 2005

Just heard on Fox News Channel from Israel Radio....

Some will say it is a political move. It may very well be, but I do believe this is a man who is standing firm on his principles about the wrongness of the Gaza pullout and Road Map.

We are about to see civil war in Israel -

1. Jews against Jews over the Gaza pullout.
2. PA terrorist groups against Hamas and others, vying for power in the Gaza Strip.
3. Palestinian terrorists continuing attacks on Jews.
4. Radical Jews terrorizing Arabs too.

At least SIX groups involved in a civil war!

All because of this Bush, EU, UN, and Russian Raod Map from Hell....giving in to terrorists by giving up land.

hillclimber · Aug 7, 2005

Netanyahu seems to be a man of principal. Why on earth Israel deals her God given land away, to people that have never kept a treaty with her, simply amazes me.

hillclimber · Aug 7, 2005

And why we and the the rest of the free world encourage/insist on it also amazes me.

LadyEagle · Aug 7, 2005

Yesha Council applauds Netanyahu's move

By Haaretz Service

Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation on Sunday raised a storm of reactions in the country's political and financial circles.

The resignation, instigated by the impending pullout from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank, was applauded by the Yesha Council of settlements, which commended Netanyahu "for showing national responsibility and leadership, for deciding not to lend his hand in the uprooting of Jewish communities to encourage terror."
Click to expand...

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/609554.html

KenH · Aug 7, 2005

Let us hope and pray that cooler heads prevail on all sides among the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Joseph_Botwinick · Aug 7, 2005

Amen, Ken!

Joseph Botwinick

KenH · Aug 7, 2005

Originally posted by LadyEagle:
I do believe this is a man who is standing firm on his principles about the wrongness of the Gaza pullout and Road Map.
Click to expand...

Then why did he vote for the disengagement plan last fall?

I like Bibi as a person but I think this looks like a John Kerry "I voted for it before I voted against it" moment.

Also, doing this so late in the process will not stop the disengagement plan. If he had wanted to stop it he could have perhaps done so if he had made this move months ago. Now it looks like a political move so that if things don't go well that he can take advantage of it politically.

LadyEagle · Aug 7, 2005

My prayer is that God's Will be Done!

Joseph_Botwinick · Aug 7, 2005

On that much, we can agree!

Joseph Botwinick

prophecynut · Aug 7, 2005

Binjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party was elected Prime Minister May 29, 1996. US disaproved of his election and said it would disrupt the Arab-Israeli peace process and increase friction between them and Palestinians and Arab states.

Unlike his predecessors Rabin-Peres of the Labor Party who forged peace with the Palestinians without regard to security, Netanyahu took an aggressive military program of suppressing terrorism and refusing to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights or Palestinian held land.

Unlike Rabin-Peres and Clinton who made the peace process and end in itself, Netanyahu saw peace negotiations as a means to an end - building a stable peace based on hardheaded security arrangements by force.

Sharon is following the same aggressive policy but with greater force than Netanyahu did. Sharon is now being pressured by the Globalists to with draw from Palestinian held land thus compromising Israel's security. This same pressure forced Netanyahu to seek peaceful negotiations with their enemies when he was Prime Minister.

The Labor Party is controlled by the Globalists who are attempting to establish peace in the Mid East by compromise. Netanyahu and Sharon oppose the Labor Party's strategy of peace for land and are being forced to comply with Globalist ideology, this is why I believe Netanyahu resigned.

As stated in http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/labor.html
the Labor Party's policy is to "promote political stability and the advancement of Israel's fundamental interests." This is a lie, their policy is to promote the Globalists agenda of establishing a NWO under the Antichrist.

KenH · Aug 7, 2005

Originally posted by LadyEagle:
My prayer is that God's Will be Done!
Click to expand...

Amen to that. God is sovereign and He always has it His way.

hillclimber · Aug 9, 2005

Originally posted by KenH:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LadyEagle:
My prayer is that God's Will be Done!
Click to expand...

Amen to that. God is sovereign and He always has it His way. </font>[/QUOTE]Well I hate to bring this up, but God's will is that everyone would be saved.

KenH · Aug 9, 2005

Amen to that, hillclimber.

LadyEagle · Aug 12, 2005

Then why did he vote for the disengagement plan last fall?

I like Bibi as a person but I think this looks like a John Kerry "I voted for it before I voted against it" moment.

Also, doing this so late in the process will not stop the disengagement plan. If he had wanted to stop it he could have perhaps done so if he had made this move months ago. Now it looks like a political move so that if things don't go well that he can take advantage of it politically.
Click to expand...

Here's the reply to your post:

Portions of Benjamin Netanyahu's Resignation Letter

7 August 2005

Letter of Resignation

Mr. Prime Minister,

From the moment you presented your disengagement plan to me, I told you I was against a unilateral withdrawal in which Israel would receive nothing in return. Such a withdrawal, I argued, would only strengthen the forces of terror. At a minimum, I implored you to place the settlement blocs within the security fence before beginning the withdrawal and to maintain Israel's control over the Philadelphi Corridor. In doing so, we could have established new security lines that protected our national interests rather than create the impression that we are running from terror. Later, we established a mechanism enabling the government to decide whether or not to proceed with the withdrawal depending on the changing reality on the ground.

Unfortunately, the security fence has not been completed, the Philadelphi Corridor will be handed over to the Palestinians, and worst of all, we are permitting the Palestinians to open a seaport that will enable them to import weapons with abandon.

Sadly, the government is blindly moving forward. Just as I feared, Hamas is getting stronger, the terror is continuing, mortars and kassams are being fired on our towns, and our enemies boldly declare that they will transfer the rockets that expelled us from the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria, and fire them until they achieve their goal of "the complete Liberation of Palestine."

I do not know when the full force of Palestinian terror will return. Perhaps it will take a month or two, perhaps a year or two. I pray that the terror will stop, but I fear it won't. Just as I was convinced in 1993 that the Oslo agreement would result in rocket attacks from Gaza and terror attacks from Judea and Samaria, I am convinced today that the disengagement plan will strengthen terror and not weaken it. As you well know, our security experts expect that terror in the medium-term will increase.

In short, it is becoming crystal clear that the unilateral disengagement is bringing no benefit to Israel. On the contrary, it is endangering our security, dividing the nation, and justifying the untenable demand that Israel return to the indefensible borders of 1967.

This is not the way to achieve peace.

I have always thought that a withdrawal from Gaza was possible within the context of a peace agreement or in return for a tangible benefit. But what is Israel getting in return for its decision to uproot families, destroy their homes and disinter their loved ones? In return, we are getting a new base for Islamic terror.

After the terror attacks in New York, Washington, Madrid, London and in the Sinai, the world is beginning to understand that terror must be confronted, not appeased. And Israel, the nation that once showed the whole world how a free people courageously confront terrorism, is now taking a different course.

In the last few months, I hoped that the government would open its eyes and change direction. But the very opposite has happened. A center-right government that expressed the will of the nation following the last elections was replaced with a government that automatically implements policies that are contrary to the principles of the Likud and the mandate we received from the public.

<snip>

For a long time, I have remained in the government despite my opposition to the disengagement plan and my growing reservations with the developments taking place on the ground. I did so in the hope that my influence within the government could help minimize the dangers of the disengagement plan.

<snip>
Today, we have reached the moment of decision. There is a path toward peace and security. A unilateral withdrawal under fire is not that path. I am unwilling to be a partner to a process that chooses to ignore reality and blindly advances a policy that will create an Islamic terrorist base that will threaten the nation. I am unwilling to be a partner to an irresponsible policy that endangers the security of the state, divides the nation, establishes the precedent for Israel's return to the indefensible 1967 lines, and even endangers the future of a united Jerusalem.

I therefore submit this letter of resignation.

Benjamin Netanyahu
Click to expand...

There were over one-quarter million demonstrators in Tel Aviv last night.

KenH · Aug 12, 2005

Thanks for the info, LadyEagle.

Joseph_Botwinick · Aug 12, 2005

I have always thought that a withdrawal from Gaza was possible within the context of a peace agreement or in return for a tangible benefit. But what is Israel getting in return for its decision to uproot families, destroy their homes and disinter their loved ones? In return, we are getting a new base for Islamic terror.
Click to expand...

Sharansky and I have been saying this for a long time...particularly the first part of this. I am curious, LE, if you agree with us on this point, or are you part of the extremist right who says that there should not, under any circumstances, be a pullout?

Joseph Botwinick

Joseph_Botwinick · Aug 12, 2005

LE,

Would you provide a link to that letter so that we can also read the snipped parts in context with the rest of the letter?

Thanks,

Joseph Botwinick

LadyEagle · Aug 12, 2005

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=26339

just-want-peace · Aug 12, 2005

And why we and the the rest of the free world encourage/insist on it also amazes me.
Click to expand...

AMEN, and AMEN!!!!

I shudder to think of the consequences to this nation should we abandon Israel like some desire.

People, I don't claim to know WHAT is going to result from this pullout, BUT the terrorists are going to smell blood like a fox after a wounded rabbit!

ONLY, again ONLY, by a direct intervention of God will this fiasco resemble anything near "PEACE"!

My preferred solution would be for Pres Bush to tell Israel that we (USA) are behind them 100%, so start protecting yourselves just as we (USA) are doing! And may God have mercy on any nation that tries to interfere with Israel's defense!

Totally un-PC I know but such is life!!

Freedom ain't free, and if we don't help those who honor freedom now, we'll be fighting for it by ourselves later. (Assuming the liberals & PC crowd aren't in power by then!)

ISRAEL Breaking News: Netanyahu Resigns over Gaza Pullout

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

hillclimber New Member

hillclimber New Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

KenH Well-Known Member

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

KenH Well-Known Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

prophecynut New Member

KenH Well-Known Member

hillclimber New Member

KenH Well-Known Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

KenH Well-Known Member

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

just-want-peace Well-Known Member
Site Supporter

Useful Searches

ISRAEL Breaking News: Netanyahu Resigns over Gaza Pullout

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

hillclimber New Member

hillclimber New Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

KenH Well-Known Member

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

KenH Well-Known Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

prophecynut New Member

KenH Well-Known Member

hillclimber New Member

KenH Well-Known Member

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

KenH Well-Known Member

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

Joseph_Botwinick <img src=/532.jpg>Banned

LadyEagle <b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>

just-want-peace Well-Known Member Site Supporter

just-want-peace Well-Known Member
Site Supporter