Former Shin Bet security service director Ami
Ayalon, co-sponsor of a non-governmental
Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative and a
prominent if independent figure in the Israeli
peace movement, caused a political stir Wednesday
by stating in a newspaper interview, "the left
must not take power."
"The left will not succeed in passing an agreement
with the Palestinians," he said in remarks published
in Ma'ariv daily. "Only the Likud is capable of removing
settlements."
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"The division in the state of Israel today is
not between the left and the right, but between
people who want Israel to be Jewish and
democratic - and this can be only in a
situation of two states for two peoples - and
others, a minority, who want a one-state
arrangement, in which the state of Israel will
either not be a democracy, or not be a home for
the Jewish people."
He said the majority of Israelis had effectively
accepted the principles of the peace outline as
proposed by Ayalon and Nusseibeh. But he said
the implementation of such a plan would be
"very, very painful," and that the real
question facing Israelis was how to carry it
forward.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/360003.htmlA well known fact. The left won't succeed, and the right may not either. It will take both, that is all Israelis working together to form a peace agreement.