We are having an election that ideologically is probably the most important that we've ever had.
If Sharon would have stayed, then a government headed by him making further disengagements in the next year or two was a good likelihood. As of now, that is off the political agenda. There is nobody around who can move the country quickly to make hurtful concessions if it's not him.
9,000 people cannot set the political agenda. They cannot have thousands of soldiers jeopardizing their (own) lives in order to protect them.
For many years after the creation of the state of Israel, that was considered a marginal, extremist view. But then came the [1967] war, and Israel's control of the West Bank, and overnight this didn't seem like such pie in the sky. It seemed suddenly like some kind of achievable vision.
Tuesday is only the end of Phase One. After that is Phase Two, which could be more consequential.
The right wing lost big time.
The standing of the various parties now is like a big strand of spaghetti all wound around itself. By the time of the elections, everything could look entirely different. That's how fast things change here.
Everybody understands that this (withdrawal) is the prelude to the big battle.
[Israelis have decided that] 9,000 people cannot set the political agenda, ... They cannot have thousands of soldiers jeopardizing their (own) lives in order to protect them.
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