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...reason for that, according to Dan Schueftan, deputy director of Israel's National Security Studies Center and a longtime advocate for a wall between Israel and the Palestinians, is that open societies like those in Europe and North America are realizing they are under threat from uncontrolled immigration. "We now know that we can only be more open if it doesn't threaten our way of life," Schueftan says. "The idea that just delineating a border on a map will stop people coming is becoming more and more unrealistic." Openness sounds good, he says, "but it's actually a calamity...
...Palestinians. But it seems just as pointedly at odds with the Israeli mood. Instead of bringing centrist Israelis back to Labor, Mitzna appears likely to poach from other dovish parties in a shrinking pool of leftist voters. "Mitzna has vacated the center and Sharon is sliding in," says Dan Schueftan, a Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week's Likud primary, where he'll face off against Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
...Palestinian lieutenants to do so. In ridding themselves of their former hired gun, a man who never could be trusted, the Iraqis could have been trying to undermine U.S. criticism by demonstrating a disdain for terrorism. "Abu Nidal joined the Iraqi early-retirement program," says Dan Schueftan, a lecturer at the Israeli Defense College...
Israeli officials acknowledge that they don't yet know exactly how to separate. Barak has distributed The Disengagement Imperative, a recent book by Israeli political scientist Dan Schueftan, to each of his Cabinet ministers. Schueftan calls for absolute separation, even in hot-button spots like Jerusalem. "We need to partition Jerusalem, not because the Palestinians deserve to rule over any of it," he asserts, "but because we don't deserve to be stuck with the Palestinians." Technocrats are still figuring out how to handle a physical separation. Military sources say it will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns...
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