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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 04:39 AM
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8. I'm sure you didn't realize this; but Reuven Koret is VERY far right
He says in this article that he does not think there could be a peace treaty in the next 100 years. But this particular article doesn't give all his views. This is someone who thinks that Sharon and even Netanyahu weren't right-wing enough; who votes for parties to the *right* of the Likud.

Here is an article from a couple of years ago:

www.http://web.israelinsider.com/views/htm8123

Excerpts:

Nyet, Nyet, Yvette?
By Reuven Koret March 27, 2006

...

My relative silence perhaps can be traced to the trauma of 10,000 Jewish citizens brutally expelled from their homes, fulfilling the betrayal of the electorate that voted in Ariel Sharon in 2003 against Mitzna, who advocated unilateral withdrawal. All of those who voted for Sharon, or who celebrated his victory, were made to look like fools. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, well....

I wasn't fooled, because I didn't vote for Sharon. I endorsed Sharansky's immigrant party, and then Sharansky up and joined Sharon. Shame on me.

I have not been completely silent. In November I called for the need to reinvestigate the Rabin assassination, since the evidence had become overwhelming that Yigal Amir did not act alone and was just a pawn in a far-reaching conspiracy, a coup that brought Peres, blissfully briefly, to power. ....


So here we are, less than two days before this somnambulant election. The nation walks like sleepwalkers to a cliff, and most seem quite content -- with iPods and earbuds implanted -- to plunge merrily to their demise by surrendering and abandoning high ground, an ever-increasing Arab birthrate, and a steadily deteriorating Jewish belief in the justice of our cause, our right to exist in our homeland. The willingness to accept the insult of daily rocket attacks is just one more sign that we as a nation are losing our will to survive and fight for our rights.

I have another confession. Last election, though I endorsed Sharansky, since I admired and respected him as a man, in the end I voted Benyamin Elon's National Union party. When I was in the voting booth and those little blue papers were spread around me, I decided that I was going to vote for a man and a party with whom I most resonated ideologically. I was an early protester in the Zo Artzenu anti-Oslo protest movement. I blocked roads with Beni Elon. I locked arms with him. I stood for what he stood for.

Beni Elon had created a kind of manifesto on what he believed. I don't think he has changed very much in his views, and the Arabs now seem to be validating his perspective. Beni Elon says that there cannot be two sovereignties west of the Jordan. He argues that the capital of a Palestinian state is destined to be in Amman. As Hamas and fundamental Islam takes over the "Palestinian Authority" and brings the idea of a two-state solution into disrepute, it is becoming clear that there is no living with such a state and such a people, at least not at close quarters....

.....
But I am not sure I can vote for Beni Elon, even if he is one of the few people in the Knesset I can respect, for his morality, eloquence and the courage of his convictions.

I am not sure I can forgive him for not fighting enough for Gush Katif and Samaria. He and his colleagues, in the end, went like sheep. They did not march to the Gush, as they promised. They did not sufficiently struggle for the homes. They lost heart and they did not lead. They played fair and they played by the rules. And look where it got them.

Beni Elon is a unifier, a mensch. He wants a strong and unified right. For that, even as he discovered he was suffering from cancer, he exhaustively sought, and eventually signed, a deal with the National Religious Party, which was even more cowardly and ineffectual when it came to defending the citizens to be expelled. And in making the deal with the NRP, Elon sacrificed a key plank of his party's platform, which calls for the transfer -- a euphemism for expulsion -- of Arabs (with compensation, leave "voluntarily", etc.) from west of the Jordan River to its east, to join the majority-Palestinian nation there.

So how could Beni Elon accept expulsion of Israeli Jews and give up the idea that expulsion of Palestinian Arabs, bent on destroying the Jewish State, is a moral and necessary act?
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LB: I'm afraid I wouldn't trust this man further than I could throw him!
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