{"id":992,"date":"2006-03-24T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/voters-thinking-logically-vs-disengagement\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:18:31","slug":"voters-thinking-logically-vs-disengagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/voters-thinking-logically-vs-disengagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters: Thinking Logically Vs. &#8220;Disengagement&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=28842\"><strong>Weekly Commentary: Thinking Through Retreat, by Aaron Lerner Date: 23 March 2006<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Excerpts;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/OlmertIndignant.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What happens if Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert succeeds next week in getting enough votes to put together a stable &#8220;retreat coalition&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><em>According to Olmert, once Israel determines that the absence of a Palestinian partner renders the Roadmap irrelevant (a determination that can be made in 60 seconds) his team would negotiate and implement an Israeli retreat from most of the West Bank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These talks would take place both within Israeli society and with various foreign countries out of an interest in imbuing the retreat line international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Olmert has been careful not to specify where the retreat lines will be but has indicated that some major settlement blocs would be retained by Israel.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is not the first time that the Israeli public has been assured that the reward for retreat would be international recognition of the &#8220;settlement blocs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Olmert retreat is ostensibly to reduce Israeli casualties by retreating from areas where there is considerable &#8220;friction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>And since the contours of the Olmert retreat would also be driven by &#8220;friction avoidance&#8221; it follows that the Palestinians would do everything in their power to apply &#8220;friction&#8221; to induce greater withdrawals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Put simply: the Olmert team would reward Palestinian terror with ever deeper retreats.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A vote for Kadima isn&#8217;t a vote over nuance. It isn&#8217;t a vote over personalities. <em>A vote for Kadima is a vote for retreat to temporary lines that will only invite Palestinian terror to induce further retreats.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Commentary: Thinking Through Retreat, by Aaron Lerner Date: 23 March 2006 Excerpts; What happens if Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert succeeds next week in getting enough votes to put together a stable &#8220;retreat coalition&#8221;? According to Olmert, once Israel determines that the absence of a Palestinian partner renders the Roadmap irrelevant (a determination that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}