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Outposts Should Not Be The Issue

Tonight tens of thousands demonstrated in Zion Square against the road map. The organizers had predicted that more than 100,000 would attend, and now claim that 100,000 indeed attended.

Too much of the opposition to the road map has focused on Prime Minister Sharon's announcement that Israel will dismantle unathorized outposts that have been set up near existing communities in Judea and Samaria, rather than the more significant dangers of the road map. For example, Israel is expected to agree to a Palestinian state, to accept a ceasefire with Hamas rather than the destruction of Hamas' infrastructure, to release all Palestinian terrorists, to withdraw from all or almost all of Judea and Samaria and dismantle most of the settlements, and to give up control over the Old City of Jerusalem. All of these are far more problematic than the question of outposts and should be the primary focus of opposition to the road map.

There may be tactical reasons to make it difficult for the government to destroy outposts, such as to make it clear that it will be extremely difficult for the government to ever forcibly remove tens of thousands of residents from their homes and towns. But more likely, settlers who curse at and fight with soldiers at outpost sites will alienate centrist Israelis, resulting in a political loss for those who support the Jewish right to settle in all parts of the Land of Israel.
posted on 6/04/2003