Dennis Ross confirms that after the disengagement, the former Prime Minister and Tzipi Livni appointed a team that will present a security and legal framework for the move • The full interview with Ross - tomorrow in "Israel This Week"
Two weeks after the "disengagement" and the evacuation and destruction of settlements in Gush Katif in 2005, then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert informed then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he intended to inform US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the disengagement in Gaza was " Only a trailer ", and that a similar move is expected in the Judea and Samaria sector.
Sharon, Olmert tells "Israel Hashavua" in an investigative article to be published tomorrow on "The Disengagement That Was Not" - did not like the idea, but did not prevent Olmert from presenting things to Rice. Olmert also reported to Sharon about the meeting, when he returned from the United States. The article that will be published tomorrow shows that Sharon is discussing with his associates the possibility of making a similar move in the Judea and Samaria sector, if the road map plan fails and negotiations with the Palestinians stall. To a decision.
Special Committee
Moreover, at the end of that year, and about a month before Sharon fell into a coma, Sharon and his justice minister appointed Tzipi as a member of a committee headed by then-Justice Ministry Director General Aharon Abramovich.
Abramovich and other members of the committee, including former deputy chief of staff Maj. After Sharon suffered a severe stroke and Olmert became prime minister, Olmert openly promoted the "convergence" program, which was intended to unilaterally withdraw Israel from other areas in the Judea and Samaria sector as well.
"Continue in the West Bank"
The director of Sharon's bureau, Adv. Dov Weisglass, added in this regard that "the disengagement from the Gaza Strip was a move in itself, but it was intended to be integrated into another course that would follow them, based on both the Road Map program and the desire to avoid a dead end. The idea was to continue a similar operation in the West Bank, "Weisglass confirms, describing what happened as" a film in which a power outage occurred. "Former senior US administration official Dennis Ross also confirmed to" Israel this week "that" Sharon clearly planned another withdrawal in the West Bank. "
The full interview will be published tomorrow in "Israel Hashavua"
