The GazaDisengagement Plan describes the move to withdraw all Jewish Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip unilaterally as soon as possible, lead by Ariel Sharon. The Plan has received substantial support from EU and other developed nations, but is widely viewed with skepticism in the Muslim world as being intended to bolster US support for continued occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan River, and its substantial water resources.
It is also widely opposed by the settlers and their supporters who comprise a substantial base of Sharon's Likud Party. The Plan created a rift in Sharon's coalition government, which he dealt with by inviting in the Labour Party of Israel and its leader Shimon Peres to form a government fully committed to carrrying out the Plan. A referendum on the Plan held within Likud (only) had earlier failed, but Sharon had gained from U.S. President George W. Bush, substantial concessions regarding continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank , continuing the construction of the West Bank Wall and denying the right of return to Palestinian diaspora "refugees" to what is now Israeli occupied territory or Israel proper.
The unilateral nature of the plan, and the absence of cooperation with the Palestinians in the plan, is confirmed by the implementation of it thus far.
The unilateralism of the DisengagementPlan stands in sharp contrast to this, and one must question the wisdom of defying the method that is perceived and embraced internationally as the proper approach to solving this issue.
The Israel DisengagementPlan is an openly unilateral move by the Israelis to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Sharon is already laying the foundations for shunning further movement after the disengagement, saying that progress in implementing the roadmap is not automatic and depends on the Palestinians' full implementation of their obligations under phase one of the roadmap, which, according to the Israeli interpretation, means complete dismantling of the terror infrastructure.
Indeed, herein lay the background to the disengagementplan, and as Israel's basic interest is to disengage from the Palestinians in order to preserve Israel as a Jewish democratic state, there is no alternative to continuing with unilateral separation in Judea and Samaria while confronting Palestinian violence.
Moreover, Likud opponents of disengagement include a sector led by MK Michael Ratzon who opposes disengagement because it is unilateral and not because he objects fundamentally to dismantling settlements as part of an agreement with the Palestinians.
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