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...their hamlet of Netzer Hazani and the other 20 Jewish settlements that occupy more than one-third of the Gaza Strip will be ghost towns, the Hilburg home of 26 years reduced to rubble, the very purpose of their lives stripped away. Under the controversial policy Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calls disengagement, some 8,700 Israeli residents in Gaza and another 674 in the West Bank must leave their homes or face removal by force. The plan has the support of the international community, including the Bush Administration, which sees the withdrawal as a small but vital step toward...
...pullout has neared, activists from outside the strip have blocked highways, spread nails on roads and sought to crowd into the settlements to thwart the evacuation with their bodies. Israeli police estimate that more than 2,500 have smuggled themselves into Gush Katif; some plan to test Sharon's vow to use the army to remove any who try to resist the evacuation, pressing their slogan, "Jews don't deport Jews." The opposition--which is dominated by an assortment of far-right settlers from the West Bank, messianic rabbis, religious extremists and restless teenagers--has virtually hijacked the disengagement issue...
...Elections are due in Fall 2006. That means Sharon's Likud will hold primaries for the leadership in the Spring. Until now Likud Party insiders have said they'd keep Sharon as leader, if the Gaza withdrawal goes well and retains his popularity with the public. But most Likud members voted against Sharon's withdrawal in a party referendum last year and were outraged when he went ahead with his plans in spite of the vote. If the "disengagement" is followed by an upsurge in terror attacks-and everyone from Israeli military intelligence to leading Hamas figures agrees that...
...Ostensibly, Netanyahu stayed at the Finance Ministry so long because he believed Israel had an economic crisis that needed to be faced. Privately he tells people that the country was "six weeks away from being Argentina" when he took over. Since Sharon unveiled his disengagement plan in December 2003, Netanyahu carped about it, but resisted right-wing pressure for him to quit because there were important free market reforms to be carried through. Now he says those reforms are done and he's free to resign...
...quite. The cabinet votes Tuesday on the 2006 national budget, which contains many of Netanyahu's reforms. Now political insiders say there'll be some in the government who'll use the budget vote to push Sharon into early elections. Probably the old warrior will brazen out another desperate political situation, but if he fails there could be elections as early as this year. If so, Sharon knows who he'll be up against. Netanyahu wants Sharon's job, and he also wants his old position back. In a briefing with business journalists Monday, Netanyahu said: "If the public wants...