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Dr. Aaron Lerner is co-founder of , Independent Media Review and Analysis, an Israel-based news organization which provides an extensive digest of media, polls and significant interviews and events relating to the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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By Dr. Aaron Lerner
December 9, 2004
While Oslo can be blamed on blind ideologues in the Left who genuinely believed it would bring peace, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan has passed the hurdles only because the leadership of the Likud Party, that overwhelming opposes the plan, put their personal interests ahead of the nation's.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Limor Livnat, Yisrael Katz. . . the list of Likud leaders who know how dangerous and wrong the disengagement plan is but won't dare to jeopardize their jobs by sticking to their guns and opposing it goes on and on.
MK Uzi Landau and a handful of other MKs now find themselves as a few righteous in Sodom.
And it is not just the Likud ministers and MKs.
As Likud Central Committee powerhouse Raanana Deputy Mayor Uzi Cohen, put it, he is adamantly opposed to disengagement, but business is business.
The Left's blindness was a terrible mistake.
The Likud leadership's avarice is a sin.
What are the prospects for the future?
Ariel Sharon is now naked.
Until now he could justify to world leaders whatever "red lines" that may [temporarily] remain by pointing to opposition at home.
But now the world knows that Sharon doesn't even have to convince his colleagues that crossing a red line serves the interests of the Jewish State -- just that opposing the move could jeopardize their seats.
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