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Defense Minister Mofaz: Israel's Interests After Disengagement - A Jewish Majority with Defensible Borders
(Voice of Israel/BBC Monitoring) Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday: "The State of Israel is hereby carrying out a unilateral step, however coordinated it may be. Israel must defend its security interests, which primarily are to have a Jewish state with a Jewish majority, defensible borders, and strategic depth, and to make every possible effort to strive for peace." "We will pursue the road map after the disengagement. We are committed to implementing the road map, whose first stage deals with disbanding the terrorist infrastructures. I believe we must insist on this issue. This isn't something that the Palestinians will do in one day or one hour. We must be very cautious and insist on demilitarization and disbanding the terrorist infrastructures, and then move on."