Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has hailed the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as a historic moment.
Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, these crime families have intensified their previously loose association with these terror elements.
Mr Abbas will not agree, nor should he, to defer negotiations while the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza takes place.
This is particularly true since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would take place outside of any legal or international framework.
An Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will leave the territory effectively under the control of the most radical elements in Palestinian society.
Likewise, when Sharon was incapacitated, the public was still unaware of the dimensions of the strategic folly of his withdrawal from Gaza.
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The withdrawal was a precursor to its withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
In June, the Cabinet approved the withdrawal from Gaza, but only after Mr. Sharon fired two ministers and allowed two others to resign.
Amid the growing dissent within Likud over the withdrawal from Gaza, Ariel Sharon left the party in 2005 along with many allies to form Kadima.
She was a key player during Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and followed Sharon when he broke away from Likud to form Kadima in 2005.
The main reason Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian elections was that the Palestinians believed Hamas terror was responsible for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005.
Far from bringing peace and stability, as they warned the likes of Olmert and Livni, withdrawal from Gaza started the countdown to the war we are now fighting.
In essence, what we see in Olmert's and Livni's machinations is a repeat of Ariel Sharon's and Livni's political maneuvering in the period that preceded the withdrawal from Gaza.
Mr Blair said the Palestinian Authority must now "show the political will to make the withdrawal from Gaza a success and to deliver on the roadmap responsibilities, especially regarding security".
And as they warned would happen, withdrawal from Gaza allowed Hamas to become an Iranian proxy and build the Iranian-supplied army that now assaults the South with missiles and rockets.
America and Israel want to make sure that the withdrawal from Gaza does not allow Hamas to consolidate its hold over the strip and turn it into a haven for terrorists.
However, voters will recognise that under Mahmoud Abbas, a founding member of Fatah, the PA has found itself sidelined in the peace process by Israel's unilateral moves, in particular the withdrawal from Gaza.
So although an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would be good in itself, easing life for the Palestinians there and reducing armed friction between the two sides, it would not lead automatically to a broader peace.
And in the three years since Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the Palestinians have again squandered an opportunity to start building a state with bright lights, instead focusing on weapons and striking Israel.
The PA made the choice in 2005 again when it responded to Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza with a tenfold increase in the number of rockets and missiles it fired on Israeli civilian targets in the Negev.
Before the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the three Israeli communities in northern Gaza provided a buffer zone that protected the adjacent Israeli city of Ashkelon from Palestinian rocket attack by keeping the city out of range of these munitions.
Indeed, in a manner even more significant globally than the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which brought Hamas to power in the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank will be perceived as a strategic victory for Global Jihad.
The past decade's major policies: the withdrawal from Gaza, the construction of the security fence, the acceptance of the road map peace plan, the Annapolis Conference, Operation Defensive Shield, the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead all shared one central feature.
So, too, the Palestinians' election of Hamas in the 2006 elections, and their missile war against Israel from Gaza in the aftermath of Israel's complete withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, all made clear that they are not interested in a Palestinian state.
Olmert, whose primary goal as prime minister is to reenact the failed withdrawal from Gaza twenty-fold in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem cannot enable the Israeli public to see proof on its television screens night after night that the withdrawal was an abysmal failure.
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Polls suggest the time may, in fact, now be ripe: a poll in Tuesday's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper showed 59% backing a withdrawal from Gaza and just 34% against and on Wednesday Mr Sharon indicated that he would put the controversial plan to a referendum.
According to Caroline Glick, the brilliant managing deputy editor of the Jerusalem Post and who really is pro-Israeli, Kristol and his ilk have a history of supporting the withdrawal from Gaza and then determinedly barring more consistent pro-Israeli voices from their press outlets.
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Over the past decade and at a frenzied pace since the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, acting at least partially at the direction of the Israeli Islamic Movement and with the active support of the far left, Israeli Arabs and Beduin have launched a massive assault on the state.
Even more devastatingly, the withdrawal -- which set the course for the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and the Olmert government's plan to unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria -- discredited the one strategy that could have brought Israel a strategic victory in 2006: reassertion of Israeli control over the border area in south Lebanon.
The Palestinian Authority's prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, sounded hopeful for the first time that the Israelis' proposed withdrawal from the Gaza Strip could revive a peace process, provided there was also a withdrawal from the West Bank.
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