from Ha'aretz:
Last update - 08:20 14/04/2006
Olmert: Convergence to be completed within 18 months
By Haaretz Service
In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert said he intends to complete his plan to withdraw from parts of the West Bank within 18 months. Olmert said he plans to complete coalition talks within two weeks and begin planning the withdrawal in detail the moment a government is formed. His first step will be to appoint a team of experts, including military, political and economic advisers, to outline the withdrawal. Olmert added that during his first visit to Washington next month he plans to ask for the international community's help in funding the pullout, which the newspaper estimated would cost over NIS 46 billion.
Olmert declared that his plan "will change the face of the region," and vowed not to miss this opportunity. He rejected any division of Jerusalem as a move that would "not bring peace, only more fighting," but did not rule out the possibility that some Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem would be under control of a future Palestinian state.
The whole idea of a 'palestinian' people has to be exposed as a myth - to be said again and again and again, in the same way that they sold this idea to the world. The Israeli people, themselves, have come to believe that there is such a thing as a 'palestinian' people. They have to be shown that this is a lie. There is an alternative - for those Arabs to be paid to leave. They also have to be shown - if they don't realize it already - as Bibi said again and again - that any more withdrawals will only result with terrorists moving in and putting our major cities in immediate danger!
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