Gaza plan should be the first step in wider pullout

As I said, Sharon and Weisglass are delusional if they think (and have said) that the Gaza withdrawal will buy them a reprieve from further territorial concessions or even to "freeze" the peace process post-withdrawal (as they have also said). The UN and EU will simply pocket this concession and move on to the next one. Via Daily Times

BERLIN: Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip should be the first step in a wider pullout from Palestinian territories, the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in an interview with a German magazine to be published on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "wants to begin (to follow the
international peace plan known as the roadmap) with a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip," Solana told Der Spiegel. "But he must also commit to making the withdrawal the first step in a process that leads to the pullout from all the occupied areas." "If he thinks that withdrawal from Gaza alone is enough and that peace will automatically return, we will not back that idea. It would not be a dream but a nightmare."