2004-10-11
 
Don’t Believe a Word
 
by Uri Avnery
 
 
When Ariel Sharon announced his plan for “unilateral disengagement”, the 
media reported that the Peace Now movement was preparing a big public 
campaign in support. The Prime Minister’s office asked them to desist, 
fearing that such a campaign would cause the extreme right to oppose it.
Peace Now was not the only “leftist” group that waxed enthusiastic about 
the plan. The chiefs of the Labor Party declared that it was really their 
own plan and that, therefore, it was their duty to join the government 
and help Sharon to implement it.
 
I was one of the very few who immediately raised their voice against the 
plan. I argued (http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article282.html)
that it was really a right-wing plan for annexing most of the West Bank, 
burying the peace process and deceiving public opinion in Israel and 
abroad.
 
I was certain of this, because I know Sharon. I have been watching the 
man for 50 years and have written three biographical essays about him. I 
know what he thinks and I know how he operates.
 
Now Dov Weisglass has confirmed everything I said and more.