But then the Palestinians and the international community threw Shavit and his friends yet another curveball.
The likes of Shavit said then that if Israel left Gaza, the Palestinian attacks would stop.
Like his fellow defeatists, Shavit argues that Jewish communities in these areas are the cause of international moves to delegitimize Israel.
Goalkeeper Shavit Elimelech then tipped an Alan Hutton header just over the crossbar after he had connected well with a Burke corner.
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"What you see here is despair, you see fear and you see a wave of dangerous nationalism, " Ha'aretz columnist Ari Shavit said.
Shavit himself engaged in shocking demonization of the Israelis living in Gaza.
For example, on Thursday Ha'aretz columnist Ari Shavit called Israeli communities built beyond the 1949 armistice line the local equivalent of Japan's nuclear reactors.
Mr. SHAVIT: This is a very promising election campaign in the sense that the Israeli public, the Israeli voters really have a choice between three different options.
Mr. Shavit says the Prime Minister's creation of the new Centrist party Kadima, indicated he had a clear vision of Israel's future, which he was prepared to pursue.
Ari Shavit is a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.
Mr. Shavit says that, if Hamas becomes dominant in Palestinian politics, there is likely to be a resurgence of the Israeli right wing and the Centrist Kadima will be marginalized.
Mr. ARI SHAVIT (Columnist, Israeli Newspaper Ha'aretz): He probably had in mind something quite limited yet significant, of probably evacuating 20 perhaps a bit more settlements in the coming years, within the context of the roadmap.
In March 2006, just four months before the war which was to see Israel demonized on virtually every diplomatic stage, Haaretz's Ari Shavit claimed that by withdrawing to the internationally recognized border with Lebanon in May 2000, "Barak built the invisible wall of international legitimacy, " for future Israeli combat operations in Lebanon.
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