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Sharansky Explains What Israel Voted For

While Israel's national elections sent out some confusing signals, in fact the electorate sent a rather dramatic message to its political leadership and the world.

World renowned dissident and Chairman of One Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky clearly examines the results of these elections. In What the Israeli Elections Really Mean , Sharansky concludes that Israelis emphatically rejected the political process that started with the Oslo Accords:

"For the first time in many years, definitely since the Oslo peace process started in 1993, a significant majority of the Knesset does not believe in Oslo, and does not believe in the disengagement from Gaza in 2005--in short, does not believe that peace with the Palestinians can be achieved through simple, quick solutions."

Sharansky says that the rejection of the Oslo process that required the United States and Israel to prop up dictators is dead and should be replaced by a bottom approach to peace:

"I have always believed that the only reliable path to peace begins with a bottom-up approach in rebuilding Palestinian civil society, in which Palestinians rebuild their educational system to teach their students to be good citizens rather than suicide bombers; in which Palestinians rebuild their economy through a commitment to initiative and personal freedom; rebuild their security apparatus to secure peace rather than preparing for war; and build proper and healthy civic institutions."

Sharansky is hopefull that Benjamin Netanyahu will form a based unity government:

"What gives me hope today, however, is that the leader of Israel's national camp and hopefully the next Prime Minister of Israel heading a broad unity government, Benjamin Netanyahu, believes in bottom-up solutions, starting with economic development as the key to creating the conditions for peace."

Read the whole Sharansky article here.

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By shimsar on February 15, 2009 7:08 AM

Up until the time Benjamin Natanyahu "Finagled Moshe Faglin" the Likud was ahead with some 40 prospective seats. Right after his dastardly move, demoting Mr Faglin, the Likud prospects nose-dived by a quarter.
And even some of the votes he did garner were just to weaken the left. Not out of any love or respect for "Bibi".
Shmuel

By Yoel Nitzarim on February 15, 2009 12:07 PM

We Jews can only hope that Mr. Sharansky is right and that Mr. Netanyahu will be elected Prime Minister of Israel. Of concern is not the approach that Mr. Netanyahu has to building the Palestinians from the bottom up. It is the still adversarial stance that both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have toward making a real, lasting peace with Irsael. Whether it be in the anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist school curricula or in the incessant preparation for a war with Israel, the Palestinians do not appear to have changed their approach or their desire to eradicate Israel. Thus far, Europe has been silent in action toward helping Israel gain a real, lasting peace. Even with the apparent embargo of Iranian ships or other ships with weaponry arsenals in their hulls, would Europe really care what happens to Israel? A recent stistic augers differently: one our of three Europeans blame Israel for the worldwide economic disaster. Moreover, Egypt has worked as an intermediary; yet Egypt itself remains in a rather cold peace with Israel. Can Israel truly trust Egypt to stop the flow of weaponry into Gaza? Can Israel trust any country other than itself to stop Iran from building a nuclear warhead? Dennos Ross once referred to Mr. Netanyahu as being arrogant? Is Mr. Ross still of that opinion, since Mr. Netanyahu does not ever wish to return to the Oslo Accords? First of all, President Peres would need to select Mr. Netanyahu and Likud to form a coalition to lead the country. We will see what Mr. Peres's choice is sometime in the next week or so.

By Atlas on February 15, 2009 3:48 PM

Oslo was dead on arrival and was a Coup de'Etat by Israeli leftist establishmnet. The price of this fraudulent "peace" were pieces of dead bodies suffered by the innocent public. The only way to piece is massive expansion of the settlement enterprize and Jewish settlement of Yesha/Gaza, resulting in progressive displacement of the Arab population in those areas.

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