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...grip on the West Bank and remove any pressure to negotiate a permanent two-state solution with the Palestinian leadership. And the anti-Arafat consensus he reached with the Bush administration had, in every meaningful sense, taken the roadmap off the table - as Sharon's top political aide Dov Weisglass put it in a recent interview, the Gaza plan was designed to "remove indefinitely from our agenda" the question of a Palestinian state...
Today, other developments on the ground, including the unilateral disengagement plan from 17 Israeli settlements in Gaza, also puts into question Israel’s real intentions. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s adviser Dov Weisglass declared in an interview with Haaretz a few weeks ago that, “The significance of our (unilateral) disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with Palestinians...
...Just last week, Dov Weisglass, top political adviser and former chief of staff to the Israeli prime minister told the Israeli daily Haaretz that Sharon's intention in quitting Gaza is to freeze the peace process, not advance it. Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan, said Weisglass, "is the bottle of formaldehyde within which you place the president's [roadmap] formula so that it will be preserved for a very lengthy period. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that's necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians...
...Both Israel and Jordan are already doing the same. The Administration is helping to broker arrangements by which Jordan will be supplied with oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the same preferential terms (a 75% discount on the market price) it now receives from Iraq. Last week Dov Weisglass, director-general of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was at the White House for talks with Gary Edson, an economic and national-security aide to Bush. The Israelis, sources familiar with the negotiations tell TIME, have asked for an extra $4 billion in military aid for equipment...
...meeting with Kahan took place in a conference room in the offices of Prime Minister Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 6. Time Inc. was represented by Haim Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice; Sharon was represented by Dov Weisglass, a Tel Aviv lawyer. At the outset of the examination, Zadok learned that he would not be permitted to see testimony gathered by the commission's investigators, who had the power to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify...
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