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August 15, 2005
Sharon Tells Israelis 'Gaza Cannot be Held on to Forever'
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Israelis today that, "the changing reality in this country, in this region, and in the world, required another reassessment and changing of positions" regarding the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories..
"Gaza cannot be held on to forever," he said. "Over 1 million Palestinians live there, and they double their numbers with every generation."
"They live in incredibly cramped refugee camps, in poverty and squalor, in hotbeds of ever-increasing hatred, with no hope whatsoever on the horizon."
Mr. Sharon knows that this Israeli-created condition is a time bomb that, when it explodes, will overwhelm Israel. Better to try to diffuse it now rather than later, when Palestinians will vastly outnumber Jews in Israel.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 15, 2005 10:30 PM
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