Ex-Mossad chief: Road map cannot be implemented

[Gimel]

Israel, the United States and the Palestinians all know the road map peace plan cannot be implemented, but they hope it will be a catalyst to renew negotiations, former Mossad head Efraim Halevy said Tuesday.

Halevy said the Palestinians cannot confront, dismantle and disarm militant groups as the road map demands. In addition, the plan's timeline - which calls for a preliminary Palestinian state by 2003 and a permanent entity by 2005 - is irrelevant, he added.

Quoting heavily from the four-page document jointly drawn up by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia, Halevy pointed out the plan's inconsistencies and incongruities. It was a "strategic mistake" for Israel to have accepted the document, he said....
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/380137.html

[bluesoul]

1. Ex Mossad chiefs

aren't exactly one's I would listen to, even if i were an Israeli, If i really wanted peace...

[Gimel]

2. since you're not

an Israeli, you shouldn't pre-judge. Ex-Mossad chiefs have an excellent idea of the security situation. I would listen to his opinion before that of any politician.

[bluesoul]

3. When I have security in mind

I mean security for ALL (Palestinians included). Not the kind of without terrorist attacks yet with numerous killings of civilians on the other side...

[Gimel]

4. Is that

in the Road Map? Or is that just something you've thought up.

[bluesoul]

5. It's a fact of the last few months

...

[Gimel]

6. The PA should love the Wall

It will allow Israel to be protected from invasion by suicide attacks without having to send soldiers after them.

[bluesoul]

7. I am not talking about PA's comfort

but Palestinian people that have to put up with everything the wall and Israeli policy in the OT brings.

The people that some of us care about at least...

[Gimel]

8. All of the region's people

deserve peace. The people that you care about and Israelis also.