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A Unilateral Withdrawal from the West Bank Might Bring Iran to the Suburbs of Tel Aviv -
(Jerusalem Post) Amnon Rubinstein - * Gaza is becoming a base for waging war against Israel. The missiles which hit Ashkelon are just a prelude of things to come. * Worse, a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank might bring the agents of the pro-Nazi regime in Teheran - headed by a demagogue who wants to do to Israelis what he claims the Nazis did not do to the Jews - close to our fragile borders. In these circumstances, a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank might bring Iran to the suburbs of Tel Aviv. This is the unthinkable scenario which must be taken into account. * The demand made by the Quartet's road map - that the PA put a total end to terror - is a just, elementary, sine qua non for any further progress toward a settlement with the Palestinians. * These hard days should not deter the lovers of peace from holding on to their aim, but blindness to reality will not help us achieve it. Indeed, despite self-deluding talk about Israel's power and omnipotence, the Jewish state is now thrown back to its dawn, to the days of the 1948 War of Independence, when the very survival of this Jewish island in an Arab-Muslim sea was at stake. The writer, a former education minister, is dean of the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.