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After five years of strife, Israel
considers benefits of acting alone.
Leslie Susser
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jerusalem
F
ive years after the intifada
began, a debate is raging in
Israel over how to build on
the current lull: re-engage the
Palestinians in peace talks or
make further unilateral moves
like the recent withdrawal from
the Gaza Strip and northern West
Bank.
For now, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon rules out further unilater-
al steps. But several of his closest
advisers argue that by mid-2006,
there will be no choice.
Unilateralism as a strategy has
been developing slowly since the
intifada erupted at Rosh
Hashanah five years ago. It
stemmed from a perception that
the violence proved there was no
peace partner on the Palestinian
side, and it received a major fillip
from the way the international
community hailed Israel's unilat-
eral withdrawal from Gaza.
The international acclaim
underlined the extent to which
Israel's diplomatic standing has
been transformed since Sept. 28,
2000, when the intifada is con-
sidered to have begun. Israel's
peace strategy had imploded
after the collapse of the Camp
David peace conference, and
when the intifada erupted Israel
was accused of using dispropor-
tional force to fight it. There was
widespread sympathy for the
Palestinian underdog.
Over the next five years, how-
ever, support for the Palestinians
slowly eroded. The attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001 delegitimized ter-
rorism as a means of pursuing
political goals; the Karine A
affair, in which Yasser Arafat lied
to the Bush administration about
a Palestinian attempt to smuggle
weapons from Iran, discredited
the Palestinian leader; and
al October 6 . 2005
Israel's success in combating
Palestinian terrorism and
Sharon's unilateral withdrawal
from Gaza restored Israel's diplo-
matic standing in the world.
The transformation in Sharon's
own political fortunes was equal-
ly impressive. Five years ago his
political career seemed to be
over: He was seen as no more
than a caretaker leader of the
opposition, a has-been holding
the fort for Benjamin Netanyahu,
a younger and more dynamic
former prime minister who was
expected to regain the top post.
Moreover, many blamed Sharon's
visit to Jerusalem's holy Temple
Mount on Sept. 27, 2000, for the
outbreak of the intifada.
Yet four months later, against
all odds, he was prime minister.
As national leader, Sharon car-
ried out two major unilateral
acts: the building of the security
fence to stop terrorist infiltration
into Israel, and the withdrawal
from Gaza and the northern West
Bank.
The gains for Israel were enor-
mous: The obvious pain of with-
drawal won Israel great interna-
tional respect and support, and
the Palestinians understood how
serious Israel was about creating
conditions for a territorial solu-
tion to the conflict.
The pullout set in motion a
two-state dynamic — Israel and
Palestine — and eased Israel's
demographic concerns. The lull
in the fighting led to a marked
improvement in the Israeli econ-
omy. And while Palestinian vio-
lence still simmered, the fact that
Israel has pulled out of Gaza is
expected to give it greater leeway
in retaliating.
These gains have members of
Sharon's inner circle, like Eyal
Arad and Eval Giladi, talking
about unilateralism as a -
strategy.
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