 A senior member of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Kadima said the party will seek the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state and keep Israeli control of occupied East Jerusalem. Presenting party plans ahead of March 28 parliamentary elections, Sharon confidante and current Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said the centrist Kadima Party would seek a "demilitarised Palestinian state not involved in terrorism."
| Right. That'll work. They'll never accept not being able to have parades, preferably with SCUDs rolling past the adoring masses. |
Livni said Kadima wants to keep Israeli control of all Jerusalem, including its Arab eastern sector which was occupied in 1967 and is home to some 200,000 Palestinians. It also wants to retain the larger Jewish settlement blocs elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, which account for the majority of the 240,000 Jewish settlers there. |