The Dangers of a Unilateral Israeli Withdrawal from the West Bank
Learning the lessons of Gaza and Lebanon.
January 26, 2017
The Dangers of a Unilateral Israeli Withdrawal from the West Bank
Learning the lessons of Gaza and Lebanon.
Last year, Israel’s Labor party added to its platform a proposal to cede 80 to 85 percent of the territory beyond the 1949 armistice lines to the Palestinian Authority’s control, absent a negotiated settlement. The plan would involve giving up certain neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, evacuating 80-100,000 Israeli residents of the West Bank, keeping the major settlement blocs, maintaining a military presence in the Jordan Valley, and completing the security barrier between Israel and a now independent Palestine. Deeming this policy one “born out of failure, not ideology [and] frustration, not vision,” Hirsh Goodman argues that it would solve nothing while creating tremendous problems:
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