Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05TELAVIV4118
2005-06-30 10:45:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tel Aviv
Cable title:
GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 004118
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2015
TAGS: PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE CHAIR WANTS KNESSET TO DECIDE IF EGYPTIAN POLICE
SECURE GAZA-EGYPTIAN BORDER
Classified By: Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 004118
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2015
TAGS: PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE CHAIR WANTS KNESSET TO DECIDE IF EGYPTIAN POLICE
SECURE GAZA-EGYPTIAN BORDER
Classified By: Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (C) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is to decide in the
coming weeks whether allowing the Egyptians to deploy 750
border police along the Gaza-Egyptian border as a security
measure associated with implementing the disengagement plan
is a material change to the 1973 Israeli-Egyptian Peace
Treaty, thus requiring Knesset approval. David Sharan,
advisor to Likud MK Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of the Knesset's
powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told Poloff
June 29 that Steinitz not only opposes deployment of the
Egyptian border police along the border, but insists that the
Knesset must approve any agreement with Egypt to allow this
deployment. Sharan said that Steinitz believes that such a
deployment would end the demilitarization of the Sinai
Peninsula, which, Sharan underlined, Steinitz believes is
"the most important clause" of the 1973 treaty.
2. (C) According to Sharon, Mazuz has ordered for his review
all documents associated with the 1973 treaty to decide if
the proposed deployment is a material change to the treaty.
Sharan said that even if Mazuz decides that the deployment
does not require Knesset approval, there are "legal measures"
Steinitz is considering to compel the matter to come before
the Knesset. Asked to elaborate, Sharan said that Steinitz
is still reviewing his options, but that options definitely
exist.
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KURTZER
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/30/2015
TAGS: PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
SUBJECT: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE CHAIR WANTS KNESSET TO DECIDE IF EGYPTIAN POLICE
SECURE GAZA-EGYPTIAN BORDER
Classified By: Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer for reasons 1.4 (b,d).
1. (C) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is to decide in the
coming weeks whether allowing the Egyptians to deploy 750
border police along the Gaza-Egyptian border as a security
measure associated with implementing the disengagement plan
is a material change to the 1973 Israeli-Egyptian Peace
Treaty, thus requiring Knesset approval. David Sharan,
advisor to Likud MK Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of the Knesset's
powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told Poloff
June 29 that Steinitz not only opposes deployment of the
Egyptian border police along the border, but insists that the
Knesset must approve any agreement with Egypt to allow this
deployment. Sharan said that Steinitz believes that such a
deployment would end the demilitarization of the Sinai
Peninsula, which, Sharan underlined, Steinitz believes is
"the most important clause" of the 1973 treaty.
2. (C) According to Sharon, Mazuz has ordered for his review
all documents associated with the 1973 treaty to decide if
the proposed deployment is a material change to the treaty.
Sharan said that even if Mazuz decides that the deployment
does not require Knesset approval, there are "legal measures"
Steinitz is considering to compel the matter to come before
the Knesset. Asked to elaborate, Sharan said that Steinitz
is still reviewing his options, but that options definitely
exist.
********************************************* ********************
Visit Embassy Tel Aviv's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/telaviv
You can also access this site through the State Department's
Classified SIPRNET website.
********************************************* ********************
KURTZER