Ami Ayalon fantasizes during a visit to Efrat

Gary Rosenblatt’s piece, Painful Path Toward Relocating Settlers, http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/painful_path_toward_relocating_settlers, which ran in the Jewish Week on December 14, 2010, depicts a former official of Israeli intelligence, Ami Ayalon, as he fantasizes during a visit to Efrat about a theoretical construct that would allow some Jews to remain in Judea and Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem, in a framework where Israel could coexist with a Fatah-dominated Palestinian state.

Given Ayalon’s background in Israeli intelligence, it is hard to believe that Ayalon does not know that the Fatah made it clear in its seminal conference of August 2009 http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3780&q=1 in Bethlehem that the Fatah has decided to renew the armed struggle to conquer all of the West Bank, all of the Old City of Jerusalem and to fight to assure the “right of return” for Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendants to reclaim their homes and villages from 1948 by force.

It is hard to believe that Ayalon never read the program of Salman Fayad, often touted as a moderate, who issued his own position paper http://tinyurl.com/kop2aq in September 2009 in which Fayad made it clear that he would not compromise on the Palestinian claim to all of Jerusalem, the Palestinian claim to all of the West Bank, The Palestinian claim to “right of return” and the Palestinian demand to release all Palestinian convicts from jail, no matter what crime they are convicted of.

Although Ayalon speaks with a seeming soft tone when he visits the residents of Efrat and the Etzion bloc, a prominent Rabbi of the Etzion bloc, Rabbi Yaakov Medan, warned in the December 2nd 2010 issue of the Makor Rishon newspaper of Ayalon’s real attitude.

Rabbi Medan said that when he participated in a forum with Ayalon, the week before the expulsion of the Jewish communities of Katif, Ayalon boasted that the IDF should “use the Altalena as a precedent and use live fire on the Jews of Katif” to force them out of their homes – if they resist the order to expel them from their 35 year old communities.