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Peace Process

'Olmert is not to be trusted'

Netanyahu: Hamas is a cancer that must be stopped


By Ryan Jones
March 10, 2006

As Israel's March 28 general election nears, the nation's top prime ministerial candidates are looking to clarify their positions. But not all public declarations by these men are to be trusted, warned at least one Israeli in the know.

Speaking to Ynet Thursday, Benny Kasriel, mayor of the large Judean settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, dismissed Kadima Party leader and acting-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attempts earlier this week to attract right-of-center votes by vowing to move forward with construction aimed at connecting Jerusalem to Ma'aleh Adumim and thus solidifying Israel's hold on the entire capital.

"I don't believe a word... If there was a real intention to build in the E1 area, the work was supposed to take place a long time ago."

Indeed, Olmert has proved with the destruction of Amona that he has no problem implementing leftist policies prior to the election. That a more right-wing promise with the goal of protecting Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem is not given similar priority throws its veracity into question.

Meanwhile, as Olmert lays out his grandiose plans to redraw Israel's borders contrary to the nation's biblical mandate, Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu is focusing on a matter closer to home for the average Israeli - the eradication of "Palestinian" terrorism and the Hamas Authority that fosters it.

"Hamas is a cancerous growth ? it either grows or shrinks, it doesn't stand still. If we don't do something, it will grow until it reaches [Tel Aviv]."

So stated Netanyahu at an election conference in the northern city Kiryat Shmonah, adding this warning:

"Today it can still be stopped; after four years of Ehud Olmert, I'm not sure we'll succeed."

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