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(IsraelNN.com) The majority of the Knesset faction of Kadima – Israel’s largest party and political home of the Prime Minister and most of the more influential Cabinet ministers – opposes a giveaway of the Golan Heights.
The results of an internal party poll to this effect were published on the Kadima party website. The site emphasizes that the results are “fluid,” as they are dependent on the precise nature of an agreement that might be signed with Syria.
“Do You Favor Significant Withdrawal?”
The party’s 29 MKs were asked whether they would support a “significant withdrawal” from the Golan Heights. This term was defined as either the uprooting of all or most of the 33 Jewish towns there, or their transfer to Syrian sovereignty with a measure of Israeli autonomy.
Fifteen of the 29 MKs said they are totally against a “significant withdrawal.” These included ten members of the Knesset Golan lobby – Ruchama Avraham Belila, Eli Aflalo, Tzachi HaNegbi, Yoel Hasson, David Tal, Marina Solodkin, Ze’ev Elkin, Ronit Tirosh, Michael Nudelman, and Shai Hermesh – as well as Yaakov Edry, Sha’ul Mofaz, Avraham Hirschson, Ze’ev Boim, and Otniel Shneller. This number includes four Cabinet ministers (Mofaz, Boim, Edry and Belila).
The position of two Kadima MKs – Minister Gideon Ezra and Amira Dotan – is not clear. Ezra has gone on record as saying that there is no point in talking with Syria at present.
Twelve Kadima MKs say they favor a “significant withdrawal” from the Golan in exchange for peace with the country the US terms a “terrorism sponsor.” They are Olmert, Ministers Livni, Dichter, Sheetrit, Ramon, and Bar-On, and Shlomo Mula, Dalia Itzik, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Yitzchak Ben-Yisrael, Yochanan Plesner, and Majli Whbee.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008	and is filed under news.
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(IsraelNN.com) The majority of the Knesset faction of Kadima – Israel’s largest party and political home of the Prime Minister and most of the more influential Cabinet ministers – opposes a giveaway of the Golan Heights.
The results of an internal party poll to this effect were published on the Kadima party website. The site emphasizes that the results are “fluid,” as they are dependent on the precise nature of an agreement that might be signed with Syria.
“Do You Favor Significant Withdrawal?”
The party’s 29 MKs were asked whether they would support a “significant withdrawal” from the Golan Heights. This term was defined as either the uprooting of all or most of the 33 Jewish towns there, or their transfer to Syrian sovereignty with a measure of Israeli autonomy.
Fifteen of the 29 MKs said they are totally against a “significant with
drawal.” These included ten members of the Knesset Golan lobby – Ruchama Avraham Belila, Eli Aflalo, Tzachi HaNegbi, Yoel Hasson, David Tal, Marina Solodkin, Ze’ev Elkin, Ronit Tirosh, Michael Nudelman, and Shai Hermesh – as well as Yaakov Edry, Sha’ul Mofaz, Avraham Hirschson, Ze’ev Boim, and Otniel Shneller. This number includes four Cabinet ministers (Mofaz, Boim, Edry and Belila).
The position of two Kadima MKs – Minister Gideon Ezra and Amira Dotan – is not clear. Ezra has gone on record as saying that there is no point in talking with Syria at present.
Twelve Kadima MKs say they favor a “significant withdrawal” from the Golan in exchange for peace with the country the US terms a “terrorism sponsor.” They are Olmert, Ministers Livni, Dichter, Sheetrit, Ramon, and Bar-On, and Shlomo Mula, Dalia Itzik, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Yitzchak Ben-Yisrael, Yochanan Plesner, and Majli Whbee.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008	and is filed under news.