ARABS-ISRAEL - Dec.18 - Sharon Threatens Unilateral Separation.PM Sharon says: "I don't intend to wait forever" (for peace talks with PM Qurei). We don't intend to make Israeli society a hostage to the Palestinians". He warns that if he is obliged o·blige v. o·bliged, o·blig·ing, o·blig·es v.tr. 1. To constrain by physical, legal, social, or moral means. 2. to take unilateral steps, the Palestinians would end up with less territory than they might hope to acquire through negotiations. (His speech is immediately condemned by Palestinian officials, who rejected his threat of Israeli action, and by his former Jewish settler allies, outraged by his apparent readiness to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. areas that they regard as part of a Jewish birthright birth·right n. 1. A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth. See Synonyms at right. 2. A special privilege accorded a first-born. ). Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat  This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved. says: "With this unilateral approach, they may make
peace with Israelis and Israelis. They will not make peace with
Palestinians". The head of a settler council north of Jerusalem,
Pinchas Wallerstein, says: "Sharon is giving a prize to terror. He
is destroying the vision of the Land of Israel". Sharon says if the
Palestinians "do not make their own contribution in implementing
the road map, then within a number of months Israel will take its own
steps in order to sever TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate defences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence; each may plead severally and insist on his own separate plea. See Severance. its links with the aim of reducing terror to the
absolute minimum". He refuses to identify any settlements that
might be dismantled, but says: "Israel will not remain in all those
locations where we are today... The security line will not be the final
border of the state of Israel. But until the implementation of the road
map, that is where the military will be deployed". He says the
Palestinians would get much more in direct negotiations than they would
through unilateral Israeli action. (For the past month, Sharon has
spoken in general terms about unilateral measures that Israel might take
if the peace negotiations failed to produce results. The Israeli media The following is a list of Israeli media. Print media
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