Predictions Confirmed: Convergence — Very Much Alive in Olmert/Livni/ Peretz Regime

Government Continues to Plan Future Withdrawals

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This blog’s predictions about convergence continue to be confirmed and reconfirmed. MB

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Despite official proclamations, the Foreign Ministry continues working on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Convergence plan. Olmert publicly withdrew his support for the plan months ago; however, government officials are still drawing up plans for a unilateral withdrawal from Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria. The Convergence plan would require the removal of over eighty thousand Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria from their homes.

Olmert said after the Second Lebanon War that he no longer believes in unilateral withdrawals, and will only retreat from territories after negotiations. His aides said Sunday that Olmert had no knowledge of continued work on the plan.

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Israel Again Impatient to Make Peace – Even Without Partner, Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

“The Prime Minister’s Office’s denial must be taken in context with a similar denial last week of Israeli-Syrian contacts; today, the PM’s office confirmed that such contacts had taken place.”

For related report, click Israel Runs Secret Unit to Monitor Withdrawal Opposition

Yitzhak Klein, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Policy Center: “Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said the unit will go through newspapers every day and try to spot [negative] remarks,” Levy said. “It seems that we are speaking about an activism that is above and beyond what is usually discussed.”

“People in the police are doing this,” Yitzhak Klein, director of the
Jerusalem-based Israel Policy Center said. “They have a computer crimes section and they are looking for incriminating material and there is some evidence that these cases are run through Mazuz himself. It’s possible that we see here one of the outcomes of the special unit.”