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From: "Middle East Report
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Subject: Ariel Sharon and the Jordan Option
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:15:02 -0500
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for unilateral
"disengagement"
from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank has left many
observers
scratching their heads. It is especially perplexing that disengagement
now
seems to be the prelude to a larger Israeli withdrawal from the West
Bank.
After all, Sharon has been an outspoken opponent of past Israeli
evacuations
of occupied Palestinian territory, and a long-time ally of the very
settlers
he now accuses of having a "messianic complex." Is Sharon
really now
prepared to countenance an independent, viable Palestinian state on lands
he
and his allies have considered part of Greater Israel?
In a provocative essay, "Ariel Sharon and the Jordan Option,"
Gary Sussman
of Tel Aviv University suggests another possibility. What if the
Israeli
premier has quietly held on to his once openly expressed belief that
"Jordan
is Palestine"?
Sussman's essay is now available in Middle East Report Online:
http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/sussman_interv.html
.
Middle East Report Online is a free service of the Middle East
Research
and Information Project (MERIP).
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