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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.541830
Mass Evacuation of Settlements Is a Fantasy
(Ha'aretz) Ari Shavit - Zvi Hauser, whose four-year stint as Israel's cabinet secretary ended in May, said in an interview that forcing 150,000 settlers to leave their homes in the West Bank is "a fantasy." The Jewish people's "connection to Judea and Samaria does not resemble the French ties to Algeria or the British ties to the Falkland Islands. We are talking about the formative territory of the Jewish people and of Jewish civilization, from which the State of Israel arose....The time has come to understand that there will not be mass evacuation of settlers here, nor need there be." On Iran, Hauser noted that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic would "put an end to any prospect of peace in the Middle East. With the revolving nuclear sword of Iran hovering above, no moderate Arab who is considering a compromise with us will go ahead."