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[size=1] להגיד שהמנצח בהן נבחר בעיקר בגלל ההבטחה הנ"ל (שלא שמעתי ממנה עד אחרי הבחירות)
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בעיקר לאור העובדה שכפי שאתה מעיד על עצמך, היית מאד צעיר אז.
הכי זמין וקל לי להעתיק הנה כתבה מהניו יורק טיימס שמשקפת מצויין את אג'נדת הבחירות באותה שנה. כפי שכבר ציינתי, נתניהו לא היה זריז מספיק ועל כוונתו שלו להוציא את צה"ל מלבנון, התוודה רק לאחר זכיית ברק.
צר לי על כשלי העריכה.
Withdrawing From Lebanon Becomes Hot Issue in Israeli Election
March 6, 1999
By DEBORAH SONTAG
JERUSALEM -- The Labor Party candidate for prime minister, Ehud Barak, succeeded this week in inserting new momentum into the volatile, personality-based election campaign by introducing an actual issue into the race, withdrawal from Lebanon.
At Barak's initiative, bringing the boys home from southern Lebanon emerged as the all-Israeli issue of the campaign, after a rapid growth of the conflict earlier in the week. One after another, each of the candidates, all of whom have played a direct role in keeping the Israeli military entrenched in southern Lebanon, proclaimed that he would move out the army soonest or most safely.
Opinion polls published Friday showed that most Israelis surveyed reacted suspiciously to the candidates, seeing their promises as election gimmickry, attempts to capitalize on the grief that followed the deaths of seven Israelis in southern Lebanon within a week.
"The leaders of Israel's major parties are now misleading an entire people, allowing themselves to play with the public's emotions on a life-and-death matter," Uzi Benziman, a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, said Friday.
Nonetheless, Barak ignited a genuinely substantive debate on the longstanding military presence in Lebanon that pointed up not only differences between the candidates, but also disagreements within the military.
It began when Barak, a former general, promised early in the week that if elected he would withdraw the army in a year.
"I promise you that if we create the next government we will be out of Lebanon by June 2000, with security assurances, and deep into talks with Syria," Barak said.
Yitzhak Mordechai, the Center Party candidate and another former general, followed suit, saying he would have the troops out even sooner.
AAnother former general, Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, went further. He proposed a delay in the election, scheduled for May 17, and the formation of an emergency unity government to move out the troops even sooner.
It was unclear whether Sharon had floated a trial balloon with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's consent or acted on his own. For his part, Netanyahu railed against the idea of setting deadlines.
All three candidates, and almost everyone in Israel, want to see the troops come home after 17 years of fighting a low-level war against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, guerrillas in Lebanon.
All three candidates say they believe that Syria controls Hezbollah and that Syria wants the Golan Heights returned in exchange for ending the guerrillas' fight against Israel. All three say a withdrawal from Lebanon has to involve Syria.
But in contrast to Netanyahu, Barak and Mordechai pledge to restart negotiations with Syria as an integral part of a withdrawal plan. They are buoyed by opinion polls, which consistently show that most Israelis support returning part of the Golan Heights to Syria to bring about peace.
"If the Syrians see that they are up against an honest and truthful negotiator who is capable of making decisions and carrying them out, we will be able to carry out speedy negotiations," Mordechai said in a policy statement printed Friday in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. "I can reveal here that had we carried out the Wye agreements, the Syrians, with American support, would have been ready to restart negotiations."
Mordechai was referring to the land-for-security peace pact negotiated in Wye, Md., in October, before he was dismissed as defense minister. The agreement has been frozen by the Netanyahu government, which says the Palestinians are not complying.
Rather than Syria, Netanyahu prefers to deal with Beirut, seeking Lebanese cooperation for the secure withdrawal of Israeli troops.
"The ball is now in the Lebanese court," Netanyahu wrote in a policy statement in Yedioth Ahronoth.
None of the candidates advocates a unilateral withdrawal, a move supported by a substantial minority of Israelis who say a decisive action has to be taken to extricate Israel from a quagmire.
The candidates accept the Israeli army position -- that such a withdrawal would serve to pull the fighting into northern Israel, because Hezbollah does not recognize the border and sets its sights on the Galilee, as well.
But the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, acknowledged this week that there is disagreement within the army on that assessment, especially as casualties mount and some officers come to believe that a war against a guerrilla army in a foreign country cannot be won.
In a long interview in Haaretz Friday, a senior army officer who was not identified said: "Have you been to South Lebanon lately? Have you seen what kind of outposts we've built there? We are sitting in these huge armored fortresses, which, of course, invite enemy shelling, and we make the convoys leading to them into easy targets. Little by little, we're becoming crusaders who primarily guard ourselves."
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
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