14 יום לבחירות: התזמון של תוכנית ההתנתקות ששינה את הפוליטיקה הישראלית - ישראל יוסקוביץ׳

We are 14 days before the elections, and today, 23 years ago, on October 13, 2003, Minister of Justice in the Barak government, Yossi Beilin, along with Yasser Abed Rabbo and their teams, conclude a meeting regarding a permanent status plan. On the table: a Palestinian state, the division of Jerusalem, and Palestinian sovereignty on the Temple Mount. This is an unofficial initiative, with no authority to bind the State of Israel, but it infuriates Prime Minister Sharon , who attacks it sharply and brands it the most terrible historical mistake ever made. But in a surprising and unexpected way, perhaps to prevent international pressure to recognize and adopt the plan, Sharon comes out with a dramatic statement that shakes and tears apart Israeli society. In December of that year, during the annual Herzliya Conference, he presents the Disengagement Plan. I repeat: the leader of the Likud, one of the fathers of the settlement movement, is now paving the way for the evacuation of settlements. In the summer of 2005, the plan is carried out: the Gush Katif settlements are uprooted, along with the other Israeli settlements in the Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank. The lesson, in my view, two weeks before the elections, is that even a leader with a glorious past on the Right must be judged by the decisions he makes while in power, because the price of the gap between promises at the ballot box and decisions in government might be paid by entire families with their homes. Good news and a quiet day ahead.