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November 21, 2005
Has Sharon Settled on 'National Responsibility' as a Party Name?
Robert Rosenberg at Ariga describes Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to resign from the Likud Party and form his own as "a watershed moment in Israeli political history." He wrote November 21, 2005: The political map is being redrawn by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon so he can plunge ahead with his plans to be counted with David Ben Gurion as Israel's great leader. B-G established the state in 1947. Sharon wants to set finally the borders with the Palestinians and possibly the Syrians and Lebanese but first he had to smash his two great political enterprises: the settlements, which he built as an obstacle to a Palestinian state, and the Likud when it proved it preferred its heartfelt ideologies over the pragmatism Sharon discovered in the Prime Ministers Office.
Mr. Rosenberg reported that, "It's being said that Sharon has decided on the name National Responsibility for his new party, which will draw on around 14 or 15 existing MKs some of whom are ministers and new faces: former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter, outgoing president of Ben Gurion University Avishai Braverman, and Shinui eminence grise Uriel Reichman." Read more here.
Posted by Munir Umrani at November 21, 2005 08:31 AM
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