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David Bedein is the Bureau Chief for in Jerusalem - IsraelBehindTheNews.com (the Center for Near East Policy Research in Wellesley, Massachusetts).
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By David Bedein
March 20, 2005
Written during the week of Purim, 5765, when the prayer for miracles is recited.
Preface
1. We must promote the idea that the Sharon Plan is a threat to all of Israel. It is not only "The Sharon Gaza Plan" nor is it only "The Sharon Disengagement Plan". It is the Sharon PLO Empowerment Plan.
2. We must keep in mind that few people have ever bothered to read the Sharon Retreat Plan.
3. Since spin masters have dubbed it the "disengagement plan" over and over again to the media, most people, even most members of the Knesset, prefer to assume that the Sharon plan deals only with the withdrawal from Gaza, and not with anything else.
4. People on all sides of the political spectrum have ignored the fact that 14 clauses of the Sharon Planinvolve strengthening the PLO's entity, including clause five that provides the PLO with MILITARY ASSISTANCE ... even though the first clause of the Sharon Plan declares that there is "no reliable Palestinian peace partner". In other words, the Sharon Plan openly declares that Israel will arm its enemy...in coordination with the US, the UK, Jordan and Egypt.
5. The organized opposition to the Sharon Retreat Plan have only been relying on the sentiments of the people of Israel for the people of Katif, and for their "love of Katif and the Shomron", which provides no basis to galvanize support for a national movement, stressing only the suffering of people from Katif and Shomron and have neglected to show the potential suffering of people from the rest of Israel. The implication is that they only care about Katif and the Shomron. Regrettably, this creates a self-centered focus on Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and a seeming lack of interest in, for example, Ramat Aviv, Haifa, Afula, Eilat and Dizengoff Street.
TEN POINT PLAN
In contrast, here is a carefully thought-through strategy designed to defeat the Sharon Plan:
1. Hold public forums focused on the PLO war with Israel, not just with Gush Katif and the Shomron. Emphasize that the PLO is not a peace partner, in accordance with clause one of the Sharon Plan. Ask, then, how the Sharon Plan can once again provide military training to the PLO, handing over IDF bases and Israeli civilian communities to the PLO, as mandated in clauses five and eight. As part of this approach, promote the effective film made by Pastor Vineyard and the Ariel Center concerning the dangers of the Sharon Plan -- at the Cinemateque and other public places.
2. Call press conferences together of families from all over Israel whose loved ones have been murdered or maimed by PLO "security forces." This will give a human face to the people who have suffered at the hands of the "security forces". The message should be: "Last time, we warned 'Don't give them guns' and we were right". Remember, hardly anyone in the Knesset or the media have bothered to read the PLO training clause in the Sharon Plan.
3. Promote a visual portrait of Ariel Sharon placing masking tape over the eyes and his ears of the Israeli citizen. This will symbolize his wish that the Israeli public will not see nor read the details of his Plan. Ridicule of an authoritarian ruler always conveys the message.
4. Organize a vigil outside of the Peres Center. The Peres Center for Peace maintains an investment of more than $100 million in a special development fund for the Palestinian Authority (January 1998), and another $64 million that has been allocated for the Palestinian communications company known as Pal-Tel (June 1999). In other words, Peres maintains a private financial stake in the PA. Remind the world of that conflict of interest, as Peres prepares to assume the reigns of power.
5. Form a Mohammed Dahlan pursuit task force. Sha'ul Mofaz, in his role as IDF Chief of Staff, identified Dahlan as the man responsible for an attack on a school bus in Kfar Darom in November 2000. That attack left two school teachers murdered and three children from the Cohen family of Kfar Darom as partial amputees. Mofaz told the Cohen family that Dahlan was the man responsible. Ehud Olmert wrote in the Wall Street Journal of June 3rd, 2002, that Dahlan was responsible for running the entire terror operation throughout Israel since September 2000. Olmert then called for Dahlan's execution. Therefore, the time has come to issue signs all over the country: "Dahlan -- the Next Arafat" and quote Olmert's call for Dahlan's execution.
6. Reach out to other communities and involve them in the struggle. Appoint a reporter to Sderot and visit every kibbutz that has been shelled. Organize a grassroots committee of kibbutzniks who will oppose the Sharon Plan.
7. Create a simple flier and bumper sticker that shows the missile threat. The sticker will show the danger to the rest of Israel if there is a withdrawal from Samaria and Gush Katif. A picture of Alei Sinai within a gunshot's view of the Ashkelon power station will graphically illustrate the threat.
8. Remind everyone that the law firm of Ariel Sharon adviser Dov Weisglass represents the owners of the Jericho casino. Ask if there will be a Weisglass Casino in place of Katif. A nice vigil outside of W's office on Lilienblum Street in Tel Aviv or near W' s apartment on Odenheimer street in Tel Aviv where protesters would establish the Weisglass Casino would have a great media effect. The coincidence of W living next door to Shimon Peres would be duly noticed.
9. Initiate hundreds of legal cases against the government. File hundreds of police complaints against the government for violation of Israeli human rights laws, because the state is offering Israeli private homes to terrorists. The plan of the World Bank in this context makes that quite clear. How many people realize that international law protects the right of Jews to purchase land anywhere west of the Jordan river, and that Israeli civil liberties protect any citizens from being expelled from their homes? One of the ads should emphasize that the "Sharon Plan means ethnic cleansing."
10. Remind the whole world about the new law that transforms demonstrations against the Sharon Plan into a criminal act. Since Israel's claim for international support is that it's a democracy, use Israel Minister Natan Sharansky's quote to the effect that the new law is worse than the worst laws of the Soviet Union. A video advertisement with Sharansky making the statement could even be distributed.
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