Netanyahu addressed the Herzliya Conference last night. His competitors for the Prime Ministerial slot in the upcoming elections will also speak at the Conference: Amir Peretz of Labor tonight, and Ehud Olmert of Kadima tomorrow night.



The former Prime Minister turned broadly towards the left-wing by saying he would raze and evacuate all illegal Jewish outposts in Judea and Samaria. He also plans to reduce IDF presence and road blocks in Yesha. The blockades are designed to screen out terrorists and explosives from entering mainland Israel.



"Unconnected with the diplomatic process, we have no interest in unnecessary friction with the Palestinian population," Netanyahu said.



Baruch Marzel's "Jewish National Front" party, which is planning to run once again in the coming elections, responded to Netanyahu's remarks: "Netanyahu is bad for the Jews," it said, in a take-off of the 1996 campaign motto promoted by Chabad-Lubavitch, "Netanyahu is good for the Jews."



"Netanyahu is no better than Olmert or Peretz," Marzel said. "These are three people who want to expel Jews from their land and revert to the scenes we saw in Gush Katif."



Marzel has said he will run in order not to waste thousands of nationalist-camp votes of those who say they have lost faith in all the existing right-wing parties.



Netanyahu volunteered in his Herzliya speech that in the framework of either a permanent or interim agreement, he would be willing to withdraw from parts of Judea and Samaria. "It's clear that in a peace agreement, we will have to make concessions," the former Prime Minister said, "but I will not give up on our security."



The Likud Chairman also said that in any event, every proposed territorial concession will be brought to the nation in the form of a referendum.



Netanyahu attacked both Kadima and Labor, saying, "Everyone knows that they plan to withdraw totally to the borders of 1967 [before the Six Day War]. They are trying to hide this, but everyone knows it."



Regarding the partition wall/fence, Netanyahu implies it would form Israel's final border: "The route of the partition must be reset in a way that will enable full Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the Judean Desert... It must be distanced from Ben Gurion International Airport, Route 443 [the Jerusalem-Modiin highway], and the Trans-Israel Highway."