Peres: We will surrender Judea-Samaria

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By Ryan Jones
March 04, 2007

Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Saturday that the current government still very much intends to uproot thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria and surrender their homes to the "Palestinians."

In an interview on Israel's Channel 2 TV, Peres stated matter-of-factly:

"The government will evacuate...dozens of settlements by the end of its term."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert originally ran on a platform of additional "disengagement" from the biblical Land of Israel.

But his plummeting popularity following Israel's failures in last summer's Lebanon war called into question the ability to implement such a controversial policy, and Olmert put the issue on the back burner.

At the time, Olmert claimed that he had been forced to change his mind due to the fact that Israel's withdrawals from southern Lebanon and Gaza had brought increased violence instead of peace.

But the fact that Peres made his latest remarks at a time when hostility from Lebanon and Gaza continues unabated calls into question whether or not Olmert has really learned his lesson.

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