Labor MKs Come Up With New Separation Plan
Leading Labor Party MKs Shlomo Ben-Ami and Chaim Ramon have proposed a new \"separation\" plan. Israel, according to the plan, should set an \"interim border,\" and unilaterally withdraw from certain areas in Judea and Samaria along the Green Line. These areas will then be handed over to the control of an international force headed by the United States. Settlements in those areas will be dismantled, according to Ramon and Ben-Ami, and the residents will be relocated in large settlement blocs.
Ramon and Ben-Ami were criticized within their party for sitting out the internal election against Avraham Burg and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer last month (an election that has still not yet been officially decided). Many members felt that Ramon and Ben-Ami chose to wait on the sidelines until public support for Labor increases. The two expressed sorrow today that there are those within Labor who still feel that Arafat is a potential peace partner, and also criticized those in the Likud who feel that the PA must be destroyed.
Leading Labor Party MKs Shlomo Ben-Ami and Chaim Ramon have proposed a new \"separation\" plan. Israel, according to the plan, should set an \"interim border,\" and unilaterally withdraw from certain areas in Judea and Samaria along the Green Line. These areas will then be handed over to the control of an international force headed by the United States. Settlements in those areas will be dismantled, according to Ramon and Ben-Ami, and the residents will be relocated in large settlement blocs.
Ramon and Ben-Ami were criticized within their party for sitting out the internal election against Avraham Burg and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer last month (an election that has still not yet been officially decided). Many members felt that Ramon and Ben-Ami chose to wait on the sidelines until public support for Labor increases. The two expressed sorrow today that there are those within Labor who still feel that Arafat is a potential peace partner, and also criticized those in the Likud who feel that the PA must be destroyed.