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04TELAVIV1291 | PEACE NOW CHIEF SKEPTICAL BUT SUPPORTIVE OF PM'S [...] (C) Summary: The head of Peace Now told Embassy econoff that he welcomed the PM's initiative calling for the unilateral dismantling of settlements in the Gaza Strip and some in the West Bank. Peace Now is skeptical, however, about the PM's seriousness and cautioned the U.S. to look at the ac [...] | 2004-03-02 16:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL SETTLEMENTS |
04TELAVIV1353 | RUSSIAN ENVOY LOOKS TO UPCOMING QUARTET MEETING TO [...] (C) Russian Special Middle East Envoy Kalugin, just back from a trip to Saudi Arabia, told the Ambassador March 3 that the Saudis "made some nice noises" about working with Arab League partners in an effort to recommit to the Beirut Arab League declaration, the roadmap, UNSCR 1515 endorsing the [...] | 2004-03-04 13:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL RS XF IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1370 | ASSASSINATION OF ARAFAT AIDE IN GAZA CITY -- LAW [...] (C) Summary: The March 2 assassination of Khalil al-Zaban, Yasir Arafat's advisor on human rights and media issues, is but the most recent in an ongoing series of events that indicates a decline in law and order in the Gaza Strip. Neither the killers nor their motives have been identified. So [...] | 2004-03-04 17:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL KDEM PREL PGOV GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV1451 | MILITARY IMPLICATIONS OF A GAZA PULL-OUT [...] (S) SUMMARY: We assess that the threshold for IDF conventional ground force action in Gaza following a complete Israeli withdrawal, including from the Philadelphia Strip, would be substantially elevated. The loss of IDF-secured roads, fortified bases and settlements, and diminished IDF tactic [...] | 2004-03-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL KPAL MOPS PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1452 | POLITICAL/INSITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: We assess that a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is unlikely to result either in substantial security turmoil or significant improvement in PA governance in the short-to-medium term. Unlike in the West Bank, the IDF does not maintain a presence within Gaza popul [...] | 2004-03-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL KDEM EAID ECON PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1453 | ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF GAZA PULL-OUT [...] (C) Summary: We assess that an Israeli pull-out from the Gaza Strip in and of itself will not result in any major improvements in economic and humanitarian conditions in Gaza over the short to medium term. The manner in which the pull-out is executed could have an economic impact: leaving in [...] | 2004-03-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1455 | VIOLENT WEEKEND IN GAZA - IS THIS THE STORM BEFORE [...] (C) Summary: On Saturday, March 6, four suicide bombers who were apparently en route to Erez crossing detonated prematurely, killing themselves and two PA security officers. Eighteen persons were injured as a result of the explosion and/or return fire from the IDF. On Sunday March 7, the IDF [...] | 2004-03-09 08:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1488 | FM SHALOM REVIEWS BUSY TRAVEL ITINERARY; BELIEVES [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Shalom told the Ambassador on March 8 that in recent discussions in London and Dublin the Europeans had conveyed a preference for GOI-PA negotiations in the context of the roadmap, as opposed to unilateral steps. UK PM Tony Blair reportedly expressed admiration [...] | 2004-03-10 06:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PTER IS EG XF EU GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1587 | SHINUI SCIENCE MINISTER MAKES CASE AGAINST [...] (C) In a March 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Science and Technology (and Shinui MK) Eliezer Sandberg outlined his opposition to unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, adding his view that the Israeli public is moving in that direction as well. Sandberg cited three reasons for his opp [...] | 2004-03-12 15:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG TSPL PINR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
04TELAVIV1632 | FOG REMAINS FOLLOWING SHARON WIN ON VAGUE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following a vaguely-worded speech that was supposed to be about his disengagement plan, PM Sharon turned a March 15 Knesset vote on that speech into a so-called "vote of confidence" on his government -- which he won 46-45, with 29 members absent. The vote, however c [...] | 2004-03-16 16:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1638 | SHARON TELLS CODEL LEVIN NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH PA [...] (C) SUMMARY: While reaffirming his preference for the roadmap, PM Sharon told Codel Levin on March 14 that he would not "negotiate" with the PA prior to Gaza withdrawal, which he termed a security, not political, solution. Asked what sort of U.S. support he is seeking, the PM said only that he [...] | 2004-03-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PGOV PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1643 | HOME DEMOLITIONS IN GAZA - HIGH HUMANITARIAN TOLL [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Humanitarian conditions in Rafah rank among the worst in the Palestinian territories. In the past three years, over 10,000 persons in Rafah have been made homeless by IDF home demolitions. The donor community has spent millions of dollars responding to this ongoing huma [...] | 2004-03-17 10:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GZ IS KWBG PHUM PREF PREL PTER ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV1689 | TRANSPORT MINISTER LIEBERMAN SLAMS SHARON IN [...] (C) Summary. Transportation Minister and National Union leader Avigdor Lieberman on March 17: -- Called PM Sharon and his unilateral disengagement plan "a failure," which was not supported by the majority of Israelis and which appeared to give in to terror; -- Said the National Union would b [...] | 2004-03-19 07:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1707 | UN ENVOY PREVIEWS ARAFAT "ASCENSION" PROPOSAL [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Coordinator Terje Larsen reviewed for the Ambassador his recent exchanges with GOI, PA, Egyptian, and Jordanian officials on PM Sharon's disengagement plan, and laid out an idea for enticing Arafat's cooperation in combating terrorism by offering him an "elevated," cer [...] | 2004-03-19 14:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1741 | PM SHARON BANKING ON U.S. TO SAVE DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Following PM Sharon's March 21 meeting with Likud ministers to discuss his disengagement plan, it appears that the Prime Minister may lack the necessary Likud ministerial support for the plan to pass a cabinet vote. Pundits and Embassy political contacts say the PM will need to s [...] | 2004-03-22 16:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS |
04TELAVIV1742 | HAMAS CHARGES USG CULPABILITY IN YASIN KILLING; [...] (S/NF) Summary: Hamas leaders have responded to the IAF's assassination of Hamas leader Shaykh Ahmad Yasin March 22 by vowing retaliation against Israel and blaming the USG, saying &The Zionists did not take such a step without the approval of the terrorist U.S. Administration. Therefore, it [...] | 2004-03-22 16:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | KWBG KPAL PREL PTER GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV1752 | GUSH KATIF VISA APPLICANTS EXPECT PROTESTS AGAINST [...] Summary. In February, Conoff interviewed three visa applicants from the Gush Katif settlement bloc who shared their views on PM Sharon's disengagement plan. The settlers said they expected Gush Katif residents to oppose the PM's plan through both legal and political channels. One applicant [...] | 2004-03-23 07:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IS KWBG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1765 | ISRAELIS HUNKER DOWN THE DAY AFTER YASSIN KILLING [...] (C) Summary: Israel's politicians wasted little time in taking to the airwaves to defend, or in some cases take issue with, the March 22 killing of Hamas spiritual leader Shaykh Ahmad Yassin. Sources in the PM's office expressed satisfaction with the U.S. response, and an MFA official said t [...] | 2004-03-23 13:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1772 | ISRAELI-ARAB POLITICIANS DECLARE DAY OF MOURNING, [...] (C) Summary. Israeli-Arab politicians rallied some 2,000 demonstrators in Nazareth March 23 to protest the GOI's assassination of Hamas leader Yasin. The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, in conjunction with the more militant Islamic Movement, also declared March 23 a day of mourning. A Liku [...] | 2004-03-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SOCIETY |
04TELAVIV1911 | UN AGENCIES FED UP WITH GAZA RESTRICTIONS; BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Following a series of terrorist attacks at or near the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, the GOI began requiring UN personnel to walk through the crossing point. The GOI also restricted movement of all containers at Karni crossing following information suggesting that the t [...] | 2004-03-29 16:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID ECON PHUM KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1934 | ISRAELI OFFICIALS DISCUSS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings that took place in the hours following the Sheikh Yassin assassination, USD Dov Zakheim discussed the targeted killing and Gaza disengagement with Ministers Olmert and Mofaz and MKs Steinetz and Sneh. (Selected GOI comments from these meetings reported reftels.) Mofaz [...] | 2004-03-30 14:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PGOV MARR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1952 | ISRAELI OFFICIALS BRIEF DJEREJIAN ON IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with GOI officials between March 26-30, former NEA A/S and Ambassador to Israel Ed Djerejian, here as an official guest of the Foreign Ministry in his current capacity as Director of the Baker Institute, heard that the regional strategic situation faced by [...] | 2004-03-31 15:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER KPAL IS SY XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
04TELAVIV1953 | SHARON'S LIKUD REFERENDUM LIKELY TO STYMIE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Sharon's decision to take his unilateral disengagement plan to a referendum of the full 200,000-strong Likud membership, a body more moderate than its leadership, reinforces his hand in dealing with Likud and other-party ministers and Knesset members who oppose withdrawal. The [...] | 2004-03-31 15:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1970 | BEILIN BINDS NEW YAHAD PARTY TO GENEVA ACCORD [...] (C) Summary: New Yahad Party leader Yossi Beilin left no doubt that Yahad and the Geneva Accord are joined at the hip when accord co-author Yasser Ahmed Rabbo sat center stage with Beilin at the party's founding ceremonies on March 31. Copies of the accord and Yahad's basic covenant were both [...] | 2004-04-01 12:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL PEACE PROCESS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV2031 | IN PASSOVER INTERVIEWS, SHARON WARNS ARAFAT, [...] (SBU) Israel's three major dailies previewed April 2 the separate Passover interviews with PM Sharon that each will publish on April 5. The previews highlighted three of Sharon's themes: -- Targeting Arafat and Nasrallah: In the wake of Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin, [...] | 2004-04-02 11:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG PGOV IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2034 | PERES: LABOR READY TO JOIN LIKUD COALITION [...] (C) Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres told Ambassador Kurtzer unequivocally April 2 that Labor "could not stay out" of the coalition if and when PM Sharon invites Labor to join. Responding to a scenario where Sharon loses the two right-wing coalition partners over a cabinet vote on unilater [...] | 2004-04-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2042 | COGAT SAYS UNRWA-IDF CONTAINER DISPUTE MAY BE SOON [...] (C) Summary: UNRWA April 1 announced the suspension of its emergency food distribution program in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA Deputy Director of Operations in Gaza, Krister Nordahl confirmed to Poloff April 2 that UNRWA, frustrated by what it sees as the IDF's refusal to find any interim measures to [...] | 2004-04-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KWBG PREF PREL GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID |
04TELAVIV2056 | RECOMMENDATIONS ON MAJOR GAZA/WEST BANK USAID [...] (C) Summary/Recommendations: On January 30, Chiefs of Mission in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and the West Bank/Gaza USAID Mission Director decided jointly to put an eight-week hold on four USAID projects to allow time to: 1) measure progress in the investigation of the October, 2003 murder of our [...] | 2004-04-05 09:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL KWBG ASEC IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID |
04TELAVIV2064 | SHARON READY TO REPLACE WAYWARD MINISTERS OVER [...] (C) Summary. At the April 4 Cabinet meeting, PM Sharon invited two right-wing ministers to leave the coalition if they are not comfortable with its policies, demonstrating Sharon's confidence that Labor is waiting in the wings to replace these ministers' parties (ref A). Sharon's display of [...] | 2004-04-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2164 | OVER 200 GAZA BUSINESSMEN LAMENT DELAYS AT KARNI [...] (C) Embassy sources reported that over 200 Gazan businessmen attended a Chambers of Commerce meeting on April 13 in Gaza City. They attributed the large turnout to the seriousness of the problems facing businessmen caused by delays at Karni crossing. (Karni is the only commercial crossing s [...] | 2004-04-13 16:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON GZ IS PTER ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV2199 | REACTION TO BUSH-SHARON MEETING: SHARON GOT WHAT [...] (C) Summary: Key Likud disengagement supporters and the major media are declaring PM Sharon victorious after learning of the assurances Sharon received in his April 14 meeting with President Bush. They also assess that Sharon obtained what he needs from the U.S. to push his disengagement plan [...] | 2004-04-15 10:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS |
04TELAVIV2206 | OMRI SHARON SEES HARD WORK AHEAD ON DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) PM Sharon's son and Likud MK, Omri Sharon, told poloff on April 14 -- before the PM's White House meeting -- that the main problem facing the pro-disengagement campaign is getting enough Likud members out to vote in the May 2 Likud referendum on the unilateral withdrawal plan. Sharon wor [...] | 2004-04-15 15:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2231 | POLLS SHOW DISENGAGEMENT PLAN WINNING LIKUD [...] (C) Polls conducted after the April 14 meeting between President Bush and PM Sharon show Sharon's disengagement plan winning a majority of Likud voter support. Major media analysts, however, noted that intervening events -- such as a significant terrorist attack or FinMin Benyamin Netanyahu's [...] | 2004-04-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2250 | SHARON SECURES KEY LIKUD MINISTERS' SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. PM Sharon has lined up key Likud ministers behind his disengagement plan and set the stage for victory in the May 2 Likud referendum. In the process, Sharon stretched to their full measure USG assurances regarding Israeli retention of West Bank settlement blocs, Israel's right [...] | 2004-04-19 17:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2256 | LIKUD MK SA'AR OPPOSES WITHDRAWAL PLAN BUT [...] (C) Summary: Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar told poloff on April 18 that he will quietly oppose PM Sharon's disengagement plan even though he is certain that the plan will win a majority in the May 2 Likud referendum. Sa'ar objects to the plan since it requires withdrawing from Gaza and four northern [...] | 2004-04-20 11:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2261 | PERES TELLS CODEL ISSA "NO GUARANTEE THE FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Labor leader Shimon Peres told CODEL Issa April 16 that the United States should be promoting modernization in the Middle East -- rather than democratization -- as the best means for furthering the U.S. agenda in the region. Peres recommended using business and investment as key [...] | 2004-04-20 13:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL GZ IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2293 | PEACE NOW DIRECTOR: NETANYAHU AND SHARON FINAGLE [...] (C) Summary: Peace Now Director Yariv Oppenheimer told poloff on April 20 that PM Sharon and FinMin Netanyahu both know that prior GOI decisions on the fence route leave the Ariel settlement outside the main separation barrier, thereby not meeting Netanyahu's demand that it be fully on the "I [...] | 2004-04-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2304 | RUSSIAN ENVOY FOCUSES ON QUARTET AND DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Russian Special Middle East Envoy Kalugin told the Ambassador April 20 that President Bush's April 14 statement on Sharon's Disengagement Plan "went further than the Road Map" but was "quite balanced." Kalugin emphasized the value Russia placed on the role of negotiations between the part [...] | 2004-04-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL RS XF IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2328 | SHARON TELLS KNESSET NO USG ASSURANCES WITHOUT [...] (C) With an April 21 poll showing only 44-percent-to-40-percent Likud majority support for his disengagement plan, down from a week ago, an energized PM Sharon told a special Knesset session on April 22 that USG assurances on right of return and retention of settlements are tied to fulfillmen [...] | 2004-04-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS |
04TELAVIV2335 | KEY MINISTERS AND WEISSGLAS REVIEW POTUS-SHARON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In April 20 meetings with U/S Bolton and the Ambassador, Olmert and Weissglas said there is still a chance to keep the GOI coalition together, even if disengagement moves forward. However, Minister Lieberman, leader of one of the right-wing parties that is expected to bolt, told t [...] | 2004-04-22 15:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2352 | EREZ INDUSTRIAL ESTATE: DAYS MAY BE LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: On April 21, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the IDF may close the Erez Industrial Estate (EIE) in response to a spate of recent terror attacks at the zone. GOI officials told Gaza Econoff that the GOI is split over whether the EIE should continue operating both in the [...] | 2004-04-23 13:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
04TELAVIV2353 | ROLE OF WORLD BANK IN GAZA DISENGAGEMENT PLAN [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, April 20, USAID/West Bank and Gaza Director Garber and Deputy Director Ellis, met with Nigel Roberts, World Bank Country Director. The meeting focused on the Bank's current thinking regarding Gaza disengagement and the Bank's specific plans for organizing an assessm [...] | 2004-04-23 13:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2354 | NATIONAL UNION MK TELLS CODEL DAVIS THAT [...] (C) Knesset member Yuri Shtern of the right-wing coalition National Union party told visiting Congressmen Tom Davis and Jim Moran during their April 15 meeting that Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan is one-sided and rewards terror. Palestinian leadership is corrupt, he continued, an [...] | 2004-04-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2356 | LEAKED PURPORTED FEASIBILITY STUDY ON GAZA [...] (C) Y-Net, the website affiliated with mass-circulation Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, on April 22 published a leaked version of a reportedly Israeli NSC-drafted feasibility study on Gaza settlement relocation. The document is less than the title promises; it is not so much a feasibility study [...] | 2004-04-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS |
04TELAVIV2360 | EU ENVOY'S THOUGHTS ON WITHDRAWAL, INTERNATIONALS' [...] (C) EU Special Envoy Marc Otte told Ambassador Kurtzer April 23 that European officials are beginning efforts to identify steps that will allow the Palestinians to succeed following an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. He agreed that the international community can identify appropriate roles and [...] | 2004-04-23 14:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2382 | SHARON OPTIONS IN REFERENDUM RUN-UP [...] (C) With six days to go until Likud's May 2 referendum on his disengagement plan, inaction by three nominally supportive but reluctant key Likud ministers, and narrowing but still winning poll numbers, PM Sharon has available a menu of tactics from which to draw. Most Israeli poll results co [...] | 2004-04-26 14:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2421 | POLLING LULL AND ANTI-WITHDRAWAL DEMONSTRATION [...] (C) The brief vacuum of polling results, with private and public polls of Likud voters not expected until April 29 and 30 respectively, and the large-scale April 27 anti-disengagement demonstration in Gaza, have increased speculation by media pundits and politicos about whether PM Sharon's d [...] | 2004-04-28 15:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2458 | SHARON'S CAMPAIGN: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? LATEST [...] (C) Summary. Results published on April 29 from two major media polls show 47-percent-to-39-percent and 45-percent-to-42-percent Likud majorities against PM Sharon's disengagement plan, reversing the earlier polls that showed similar majorities voting in favor of the plan. Both polls also [...] | 2004-04-29 15:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2471 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: SHARON FACING DEFEAT UNLESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: All Israeli polls are showing defeat for Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan at the hands of Likud party members. With little time left to campaign, and with the public's focus riveted on the Israeli basketball team's Saturday night final game for the European championsh [...] | 2004-04-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
04TELAVIV6039 | GAZAN VIEW ON SECURITY, FATAH FACTIONS [...] (C) Gaza business leader and longtime Embassy contact Mohammed Yazgi told POL/C November 30 that he foresees an eventual security team for Gaza comprised of Mohammed Dahlan, Public Security Chief MG Mousa Arafat, and National Security Forces MG Nasser Yusif -- a combination that he called "the [...] | 2004-12-01 12:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6103 | ISRAEL CONCERNED ABOUT ILLEGAL WATER WELLS ON WEST [...] (C) Summary: Israeli officials are concerned about water wells on the West Bank that have not been approved by the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Commission. They see the illegal wells as a bad precedent for Gaza disengagement, West Bank withdrawal, and eventual negotiations on water issues [...] | 2004-12-03 15:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IS KWBG PGOV PREL SENV ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6209 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: EXAMINING PROGRESS AT KARNI [...] (C) Summary: In their discussions of Israel's disengagement plan, the World Bank continues to highlight the Gaza Strip's border crossings as key to Gaza's economic success. The international donor community has approached the Israelis about humanitarian and economic problems that arise from [...] | 2004-12-08 13:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6374 | SPIEGEL ON ELECTION OBSERVERS, FENCE, JAYYUS, AND [...] SUMMARY: GOI coordinator for separation barrier issues BG (res) Baruch Spiegel (protect) spoke to POL/C December 14 about the apparent lack of GOI preparations to handle international election monitors, his team's efforts to document outpost and settlement activity, the apparent new responsi [...] | 2004-12-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6375 | THE LOW-DOWN ON DISENGAGEMENT LEGISLATION [...] (C) Summary: Embassy economic officer on December 9 met with Dr. Shavit Matias and Malkiel "Mike" Blass, Deputy Attorneys General at the Ministry of Justice, to discuss the details of the evacuation legislation. While there have been complaints from settlers and MKs that the compensation [...] | 2004-12-15 14:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
04TELAVIV6384 | PERES TO CODEL HAGEL/BIDEN: DISENGAGEMENT IS [...] (C) Summary: Labor Party leader Shimon Peres told a visiting congressional delegation led by Senators Chuck Hagel and Joseph Biden December 1 that he supports joining the ruling coalition in the interest of advancing disengagement. He predicted (correctly) the likely failure of the 2005 budge [...] | 2004-12-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREF PGOV ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
04TELAVIV6385 | EILAND SHARES VIEWS ON THE PALESTINIAN SUCCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Security Advisor Giora Eiland told Codel Hagel/Biden that the GOI is trying to avoid repeating the "mistakes" it made when PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was prime minister in 2003. In order to help Abbas succeed this time, the GOI, he said, will have to be "more flexible" ab [...] | 2004-12-16 09:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL |
04TELAVIV6407 | PERES TELLS CODEL BLUNT IMPORTANT FOR U.S. TO [...] (C) Summary: In a December 13 meeting, Labor Party leader Shimon Peres told Codel Blunt that he hoped Likud and Labor would form a new coalition to avoid early elections and the consequent postponement of implementation of Gaza disengagement. Peres noted that with Yasser Arafat's death and t [...] | 2004-12-16 15:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6454 | NETANYAHU AND PERES PRESENT STARKLY DIFFERENT [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told CODEL Talent December 6 that the new Palestinian leadership must show serious intent to fight terror and corruption before receiving any "gifts" from the U.S. or Israel. Netanyahu said that the GOI should simply "walk out of the Gaza Strip [...] | 2004-12-20 16:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN KPAL GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6525 | PEACE NOW READY FOR DISENGAGEMENT, KEEPING AN EYE [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, General Director of Peace Now, told Embassy economic officer on December 14 that his organization "is very excited" about the disengagement plan because it views settlements as a serious obstacle to peace. While the settlers had not yet, at the time of the me [...] | 2004-12-23 08:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS |
04TELAVIV6548 | ISRAELI MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT VIEWS ON GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Israeli Ministry of Environment has begun to focus on critical environmental issues related to disengagement from Gaza. Ministry officials believe that unless there is close coordination among Israeli ministries and between Israeli and Palestinian officials, there will be ne [...] | 2004-12-23 14:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL SENV GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6632 | NETANYAHU AND CODEL LIEBERMAN DISCUSS ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: CoDel Lieberman met with Minister of Finance Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, December 28 to discuss elements of the Ministry's economic reform package, as well as prospects for advancing the peace process in the wake of Arafat's death and the rise of a new PA leadership. On the [...] | 2004-12-29 12:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE PEACE PROCESS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6650 | SHARON: OPPORTUNITY FOR PEACE PROGRESS EXISTS, BUT [...] (C) Prime Minister Sharon told Sen. Lieberman December 27 that he is confident of forming a new coalition government soon. He said the Left in Israel cannot implement disengagement and has never removed an Israeli settlement; and the Right is against disengagement and removal of settlements. [...] | 2004-12-30 08:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS PEACE PROCESS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6657 | AMBASSADOR AND GAZAN BUSINESS LEADERS DISCUSS PA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met December 23 with Pepsi Gaza CEO Mohammed Yazgi, Gaza Bus Company President Mohammed Abu Ramadan, and engineer and insurance company head Ahed Bseiso -- three Gazan businessmen who also lead the private enterprise organizations PalTrade and the Palestinian Bus [...] | 2004-12-30 11:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6658 | SNAPSHOT OF A BORDER CROSSING AND HOPES THAT ABU [...] (C) Summary: Gaza-based NYT stringer Taghreed el-Khodary told the Ambassador December 22 that Gazans are even more interested in having Abu Mazen elected than are West Bank Palestinians -- not from any great love of Abu Mazen, but rather from the positive experience they remember from his bri [...] | 2004-12-30 12:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6665 | WORLD BANK PROPOSALS SEEM AN UNLIKELY FIT AT KARNI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On December 15 Emboffs toured the Israeli side of Karni Terminal, the site of a proposed World Bank pilot program of technological and management fixes that include replacing the current back-to-back shipping system with free-circulating trailers. Situated on the eas [...] | 2004-12-30 14:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6671 | ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER OFFERS CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting on December 30, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz gave Senator Lieberman and the Ambassador a cautiously optimistic assessment of the chances for security cooperation with post-Arafat Palestinian leaders. Mofaz said that disengagement will increase Israel's s [...] | 2004-12-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL |
05JERUSALEM3703 | DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION UPDATE, AUGUST 12, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of disengagement, several key coordination issues are much closer to being resolved than a week ago. Representatives of settler farmers and anonymous private donors agreed early August 12 on a contract to sell the greenhouses and other infrastructure for just under USD [...] | 2005-08-12 16:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05JERUSALEM3791 | DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION UPDATE, AUGUST 17, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: At a trilateral crossings meeting August 17, USG representatives tabled a proposal for spending the USD 50 million in supplemental assistance to upgrade four of the crossings between the West Bank/Gaza Strip and Israel and asked for PA and GOI responses within the next few days. [...] | 2005-08-17 17:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05JERUSALEM3983 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 24, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 1800 local time August 23, all settlers were evacuated from Sa Nur and Homesh settlements, completing evacuation of all residents and protesters from the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements. Israeli forces told Israeli press that they were prepared for heav [...] | 2005-08-24 15:24:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05JERUSALEM4288 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 0900 local time September 12, all settlers and IDF personnel had departed the Gaza Strip. PA security forces took over Gaza settlement areas in stages before dawn September 12. Rafah crossing was closed in both directions by Israel, pending an agreement on border crossin [...] | 2005-09-12 15:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1019 | DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR: GOI TO FORMULATE U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Budget Director Yossi Gordon informed Deputy Economic Counselor February 17 that the Ministry of Finance was going to develop a request for U.S. assistance to help pay for the military aspects of disengagement over the next two weeks to one month. He also said that the G [...] | 2005-02-18 14:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAEL RELATIONS |
05TELAVIV102 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: WITH NEW GOVERNMENT, SHARON TO [...] (C) Summary: The three-month trial period for which the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party has agreed to enter a coalition with Likud and Labor gives Prime Minister Sharon the time -- and majorities in the relevant bodies -- to : -- establish a 66-MK majority government, probably as early as [...] | 2005-01-06 15:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV1026 | SENATOR ALLEN'S FEBRUARY 13 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) On February 13 Senator George Allen and Ambassador Kurtzer met with MFA North American Deputy Yoram Ben Ze'ev and Head of the Research Department Harry Kney'tal. They discussed developments in Europe relating to the designation of Hizbollah as a terrorist organization, and political deve [...] | 2005-02-18 14:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL OVIP IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1027 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: CABINET POISED TO APPROVE [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Sharon is poised to obtain decided Cabinet majorities in two historic votes scheduled for February 20: to approve the "Amended Disengagement Plan -- Evacuation of Settlements and Territories" (the Amended Plan) and to approve a revised route of the separation barrier arou [...] | 2005-02-18 15:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1064 | GAZANS TORN OVER DUBAI INVESTOR'S PROPOSED [...] Israeli media reported that Dubai businessman Mohammed Alabbar recently visited Israel and the Palestinian territories with an offer to purchase settler homes intact, saving the GOI the need to demolish them. Previously, NSC advisor Gabi Blum told EconCouns that Alabbar's visit had been spon [...] | 2005-02-22 15:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV1085 | GAZANS, FOR VARYING REASONS, FAVOR PA CABINET OF [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Gazans expressed, for varying reasons, a strong preference for a cabinet of technocrats in conversations with Poloff February 22-23. Minister of Justice candidate and prominent Gaza attorney Sharhabeel al-Za'eem said that Gazans view new faces in the ministries as a c [...] | 2005-02-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1110 | ICRC OFFICIAL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IMPROVED RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Visiting ICRC Delegate-General for the Middle East and North Africa Balthasar Stahelin told the DCM February 18 that he believes that progress in the peace process could help pave the way for the adoption of a Third Additional Protocol that would facilitate full ICRC membership f [...] | 2005-02-24 14:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PREF IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1150 | PA SECURITY REFORM -- WHERE DOES NORWAY FIT? [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 24 meeting with Embassy and USAID officers, Norwegian police advisor Arnstein Overkil identified reconstruction of the PA's police forensic lab and training in crime scene investigation techniques as two possible areas where Norway might undertake programs to ass [...] | 2005-02-25 16:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KWBG KPAL NO IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1208 | YONATAN BASSEY ON THE CHALLENGES OF DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, head of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),reported on February 23 that a few settlers are beginning to make preparations for disengagement. He explained that SELA has final contracts with about 63 families and is negotiating with many others. Unfortunately, s [...] | 2005-03-01 15:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV1270 | "TECHNOCRAT" PRESIDENT RUNS INTO TROUBLE AT [...] (C) Summary: An angry mob of students, reportedly stirred up by remnants of the previous, Arafat-appointed administration, chased the new al-Azhar University president, Dr. Hani al-Nijim, from his campus office February 28 in response to al-Nijim's announced plan to uphold long-ignored univer [...] | 2005-03-03 12:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1277 | LIKUD REFERENDUM DECISION STILL LEAVES SHARON [...] (C) Summary: Several Likud MKs demanding that Prime Minister Sharon call a referendum on disengagement told poloff that the widely anticipated March 3 Likud Central Committee (LCC) vote to promote legislation needed to enable a referendum is not sufficient to secure their budget votes. They s [...] | 2005-03-03 18:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1335 | RAJOUB REPORTEDLY CLAIMING BROAD POWERS, SUCCESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Track II activists Boaz Karni and Dov Sedaka recounted to the Ambassador March 2 claims by recent PA National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub of his own pivotal role and organizational successes within the Palestinian government and security operations. Karni said that in a lengt [...] | 2005-03-07 15:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1340 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT WATER ISSUES: STILL MUCH WORK [...] (C) Summary: Although Israeli and Palestinian water officials have generally displayed relatively close cooperation, they have not worked out specific arrangements pertaining to Israel's disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank. The Israeli Water Commissioner reported that Israel h [...] | 2005-03-07 16:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IS KWBG PREL SENV GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
05TELAVIV1361 | DAHLAN PROMISES IMPROVEMENTS, COUNSELS GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Pepsi bottler and leading Gaza businessman, Muhammad Yazgi, told Poloff March 3 that Muhammad Dahlan had promised Gaza businessmen recently that conditions at Gaza's border crossings into Israel would improve in two to three weeks, and asked that Yazgi and other businessmen "have [...] | 2005-03-08 15:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1395 | ICRC REP ON POST-THREAT ACTIONS [...] (C) ICRC Head of Delegation Francois Bellon and Deputy Head Carlos Batallas met March 1 with Polcouns, Legatt and Poloff to review details and follow-up of a reported potential threat to ICRC members inside the Gaza Strip. Legatt had conveyed to the ICRC February 26 a non-specific report he h [...] | 2005-03-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1420 | MFA OFFICIAL ON GOI-PA DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs Yossi Gal told Ambassador Kurtzer that the PA should promptly seize the opportunity to coordinate with Israel on the economic and civil aspects of the disengagement plan via joint GOI-PA working groups on trade, settlement assets, [...] | 2005-03-10 12:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG KPAL PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1454 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR URGES RESTRAINT IN PRESSING ABU [...] (C) Russian Ambassador Gennady Tarasov and the Ambassador reviewed Israeli-Palestinian progress in implementing the Sharm al-Sheikh commitments and Syria-Lebanon developments during a March 11 conversation. In response to the Ambassador's question about whether Russian Middle East envoy Kalug [...] | 2005-03-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS LE SY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV1534 | PERES MEETS TELLS CODEL CORZINE "WE ARE STILL [...] (C) Summary. In a March 13 meeting with Senator Corzine and the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said there are three crucial events in the next several months: the passage of the budget, the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in July, and the evacuation from Gaza, also s [...] | 2005-03-15 11:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1594 | NSC CHIEF SAYS PASSING THE BUDGET IS GOI CHALLENGE [...] (C) Summary: Israeli NSC Director Giora Eiland told CODEL Corzine March 13 that passing the budget is the GOI's biggest disengagement-related hurdle and that all other issues are operational and will be resolved. The GOI's worst-case scenario is Palestinians attacking Israelis in Gaza while [...] | 2005-03-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV163 | IDF CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES PALESTINIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff LtG Moshe Ya'alon told CoDel Kyl January 7 that recent events have ushered in "an era of strategic opportunity" in the Middle East. He said that Israel is facilitating Palestinian elections and believes that Abu Mazen is strong enough to [...] | 2005-01-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1634 | IN SHINUI, DISSENSION PERCOLATES OVER BUDGET [...] (C) Divisions have widened within Shinui between those who advocate withholding party support for the 2005 budget and those who advocate supporting the budget to save the government and the disengagement plan. The pro-budget group has also split over how long party chief Tommy Lapid should s [...] | 2005-03-18 14:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1635 | SENATOR CORZINE'S MARCH 14 MEETING WITH VICE PM [...] (C) Summary. Senator Corzine and Ambassador Kurtzer met March 14 with Vice Prime Minister, and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Ehud Olmert. The meeting focused on recent USG initiatives on intellectual property rights, Gaza disengagement, and the future of GOI interaction with the PA. [...] | 2005-03-18 15:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1731 | SHIMON PERES TELLS CODEL REID TO LOOK AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 20, Codel Reid and Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres discussed the economic future of Israel and post-disengagement Gaza, the U.S. position on Syria and Iran, the impact of the separation barrier on the lives of Palestinians, the run-up to the budget vote in [...] | 2005-03-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IS MNUC OREP PGOV PREF PTER SY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV1842 | REFERENDUM BILL EXPECTED TO FAIL, BUT SHARON STILL [...] (C) The ongoing political machinations leading up to next week's Knesset votes on the 2005 budget and disengagement referendum legislation, do not change Embassy's expectations that Prime Minister Sharon will muster a Knesset majority for the 2005 budget and that a majority will defeat the re [...] | 2005-03-25 12:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1844 | (C) OTTE LAMENTS WEAK PA COORDINATION ON [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting with Deputy APNSA Abrams, NEA A/S Welch, and the Ambassador, EU Middle East envoy Marc Otte recounted that President Abbas had been vague in describing his next steps in discussions with EU officials at the Arab League summit in Algiers. Otte said Solana pressed Abbas [...] | 2005-03-25 12:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS EU GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1847 | SHIMON PERES ON DISENGAGEMENT, PALESTINIAN SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres told NSC director Elliott Abrams, NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, and the Ambassador March 23 that the economic needs of the Gaza Strip and West Bank are immediate and pressing, while solutions are slow in coming. In his view, the PA is torn [...] | 2005-03-25 13:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL EFIN EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV1854 | PRIME MINISTER SHARON ON PRESIDENT ABBAS' EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told CoDel Pelosi March 21 that disengagement is a "pre-roadmap" step, and that real progress will depend on the ability of President Abbas and the PA to dismantle terrorist infrastructure. In his view, this has not yet happened, although Abbas has d [...] | 2005-03-25 15:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV1898 | DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SECURITY EILAND PRESENTS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 23, Director of National Security Giora Eiland presented Codel Pelosi with his view of the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the political and security situations in the region. Attempting to balance what he surmised was Vice Prime Minister Per [...] | 2005-03-29 05:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV1899 | VICE PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES CONSIDERS "THE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 23, Codel Pelosi and Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres discussed the political atmosphere surrounding Israel's disengagement from Gaza; the economic forecast for Gaza the "day after" disengagement; the steps that the international community can take to ensure [...] | 2005-03-29 05:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV1927 | REFERENDUM BILL FAILS, BUT VOTE LEAVES LIKUD BADLY [...] (C) The landslide defeat of the disengagement referendum bill in a 72-39 Knesset vote March 28 was achieved mainly with the help of opposition parties, whose votes countered the 27 Likud MKs who broke with Prime Minister Sharon and supported the bill. The split in Likud poses no threat to Sh [...] | 2005-03-29 15:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2015 | SHALOM TOURGEMAN ON DISENGAGEMENT, ABBAS'S [...] (C) Summary: Shalom Tourgeman, foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister, spoke with CoDel Dreier March 29 about Israel's preparations for disengagement. He noted that while the GOI expects two thirds of the Gaza settlers to depart prior to withdrawal, the ranks of the resisters may swell [...] | 2005-04-01 13:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2030 | CODEL DREIER'S MEETINGS WITH KNESSET MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 28 meeting immediately following the Knesset vote against a referendum on disengagement, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, a disengagement opponent, told Codel Dreier and the Ambassador that a divided Likud is in a state of "crisis." He lamented that disengagement could [...] | 2005-04-01 14:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PGOV KWBG PREF PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV2053 | SHIMON PERES DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a one-hour meeting in Tel Aviv on March 31, Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Senator Carl Levin, accompanied by Senate staff and a delegation from the Michigan Fund, that he and Prime Minister Sharon have similar thoughts on continuing disengagement in the West Bank, b [...] | 2005-04-04 12:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL ECON KWBG OREP IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2169 | UZI LANDAU TO CODEL SAXTON: DISENGAGEMENT WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Knesset member and former Minister of Internal Security Uzi Landau told Codel Saxton that disengagement will allow al-Qaeda to move into Gaza. Landau proposed a joint working group between Congress and the Knesset to devise ways to combat international terrorism while still main [...] | 2005-04-08 06:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG OREP PGOV IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2194 | FATAH ELECTION PREP IN GAZA - IS THE MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary: Fatah's poor showing in Bar Association elections in Gaza April 2 is an indication that, despite some efforts, the party does not appear to be "getting the message" in Gaza. Fatah Central Committee member Abdullah Efrangi, now the newly-appointed Fatah chief in Gaza, described [...] | 2005-04-08 12:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2205 | JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN AMERICANS OFFER FUND FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1, Senator Carl Levin and Michigan State community leaders met with several Palestinian business leaders to discuss investment opportunities in Gaza. Senator Levin told the group that the aim of his proposed Michigan Fund for Peace and Development, which totals 200,000 U [...] | 2005-04-08 13:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS |
05TELAVIV2207 | DETAILS OF SETTLEMENT ASSETS IN THE GAZA STRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Isaac Gurvich, Economic Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, provided Embassy with a CD-ROM containing data on settlement assets in the Gaza Strip. The CD documents eight agricultural settlements, eight community settlements, and one urban/suburban settlement with abou [...] | 2005-04-08 14:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG SENV IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2260 | YOSSI BEILIN DESCRIBES USG ROLE TO CODEL LEVIN: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Carl Levin and his delegation met on March 31 with Yahad Party Chairman Yossi Beilin. With polite frustration, Beilin repeatedly and in detail expressed his view that the U.S. is not doing enough to advance a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beilin said [...] | 2005-04-12 12:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KWBG OREP PGOV PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV227 | (C) SHARON TO CODELS: KEY TO PROGRESS WITH [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Senators Kyl, Martinez, Murkowski, Sununu, and Biden, and Congressman Adam Smith January 9 and with Senator Kerry January 10, Prime Minister Sharon emphasized that progress with Palestinians depends fundamentally on whether terrorism, violence and inci [...] | 2005-01-12 14:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV2284 | GAZAN CROSSINGS, PERMITS, AND ACCESS ISSUES: [...] (C) Summary: Since the February 8 Sharm el Sheikh summit between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, the GOI has made several improvements in the Gazan crossings regime, and the IDF has increased its willingness to coordinate with the international community and the TFPI o [...] | 2005-04-13 07:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KWBG PREL ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2341 | PEACE NOW DISCUSSES SUPPORT TO THE SETTLEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, General Director of Peace Now, told Embassy econoffs that there are four possible ways for the GOI to fund settlements. These include support through the Defense Ministry for infrastructure, transferring funds to the local councils, funding specific projects, [...] | 2005-04-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV2427 | PERES ADVISOR, NSC ADVISOR DISCUSS DAHLAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Einat Wilf, foreign policy advisor to Vice PM Shimon Peres, and Gabi Blum, NSC advisor, briefed EconCouns on the recent Aspen Institute conference; the potential for U.S. involvement in Negev/Galilee development; and PA Civil Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan's progress on negotia [...] | 2005-04-18 14:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV PREL EAID ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2428 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE #2 [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of updates on GOI, donor community, and Post preparations for Israeli withdrawal and the post-disengagement Gazan economic and security situation. -- Developments in security coordination have focused on activities of U.S. Security Coordination Mi [...] | 2005-04-18 14:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV EAID ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2533 | ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN COOPERATION ON WATER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: At Trilateral Water Talks in Tel Aviv April 7 Israeli and Palestinian water officials agreed to coordinate on water-related aspects of Gaza disengagement. Israeli Water Commissioner, Shimon Tal, and Palestinian Water Authority Chairman, Fadel Ka'wash, agreed to begin working on a [...] | 2005-04-22 13:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAID PREL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2538 | BASSEY SUGGESTS POSTPONING DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey of the Disengagement Authority (SELA) said on April 18 that it was his idea to postpone disengagement until after Tisha B'Av because the timing would be better for religious reasons. He noted that the settlers have been more responsive to SELA in the past two or [...] | 2005-04-22 14:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2647 | TIME TO RESTART GAZA WATER PROJECTS? [...] (U) This joint message from Embassy Tel Aviv and ConGen Jerusalem is an action message; please see paragraph 12. ------------------- Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (C) Following the October 2003 roadside bombing that claimed the lives of three USG personnel in Gaza, we dis [...] | 2005-04-28 12:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON SENV ASEC KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT HUMANITARIAN AID |
05TELAVIV2722 | PERES DESCRIBES POSITIVE CHANGE IN QURAYA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Premier Peres told A/S Welch and Charge April 27 that Palestinian PM Quraya', in an April 21 meeting with Peres, showed a positive change of attitude toward disengagement coordination. Peres said he cautioned Quraya' not to push for final status talks after disengagement; doi [...] | 2005-05-02 11:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL ECON PGOV EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2729 | SHARANSKY'S RESIGNATION OVER DISENGAGEMENT LEAVES [...] (C) The long-expected May 2 resignation of Minister-without-Porfolio Natan Sharansky was an act of political symbolism by a disengagement opponent that comes too late to affect the course of disengagement. In announcing that he is resigning over his opposition to disengagement, Sharansky sai [...] | 2005-05-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KNAR IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV274 | EILAND ASSESSES THE CHALLENGES FACING SHARON AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Security Advisor Giora Eiland highlighted the following points in a January 9 meeting with Codel Kerry: -- Israel faces three main challenges in implementing disengagement: a fragile domestic political situation, operational difficulties to evacuate thousands of settle [...] | 2005-01-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2762 | NOF HASHARON SETTLEMENT MAY GET BUYERS: [...] (C) Summary: Dror Ginatt, Secretary General of the Israeli community of Nirit, told econoff that the town chairman of the settlement of Homesh recently visited him to inquire about moving Homesh's settlers to Nirit after disengagement. Ginatt informed him that there are no vacancies in Niri [...] | 2005-05-03 15:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV277 | (C) SHARON AND WEISSGLAS ON KARNI TERRORIST [...] (C) I called Dov Weissglas this afternoon and he reported on his conversation earlier today with Saeb Erekat. Weissglas told Erekat: -- All passages in and out of Gaza have been closed indefinitely. -- Without visible and serious action by the PA, all contacts between Israeli and PA offi [...] | 2005-01-14 14:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL PREL PTER ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM |
05TELAVIV2803 | MFA NORTH AMERICA DIRECTOR DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for North American Affairs Yoram Ben Zeev met with NEA DAS Liz Dibble to discuss the future of Hizballah following the partial withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon; the upcoming Quartet meeting in Moscow; GOI internal disengagement politics; and P [...] | 2005-05-05 08:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV285 | NSC'S GABI BLUM ON WORLD BANK PROCESS, PERES, [...] (C) Summary: NSC strategic advisor Dr. Gabi Blum met with EconCouns January 13 to discuss movement on the World Bank process, Shimon Peres' projected role in disengagement planning, and potential GOI dialogue with the PA on settlement assets and other economic aspects of withdrawal. On the Wo [...] | 2005-01-14 16:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV286 | BASSEY UPDATES ON DISENGAGEMENT LEGISLATION, [...] (C) Summary. Yonatan Bassey, director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),provided Economic Counselor and Economic Officer on January 12 with updates on disengagement planning. Bassey reported that the evacuation legislation should go to its third reading in the Knesset in late January o [...] | 2005-01-14 16:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV2924 | MKS TO CODEL FRIST: SKEPTICISM ABOUNDS [...] (C) Summary: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and Chairman of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Yuval Steinetz told Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist May 2 that PM Sharon would be "making a mistake" if he allows Egyptian troops to deploy along the Gaza-Egypt and the Israel-Egypt borders. [...] | 2005-05-10 12:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2925 | CODEL FRIST'S MEETING WITH VICE PM SHIMON PERES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 1, CODEL Frist met with Vice PM Shimon Peres where discussions surrounded the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, Jordan's economic growth and its contribution to the economy in the Palestinian territories, Iran's push to develop nuclear weapons and recent democratic election [...] | 2005-05-10 12:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IS XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV293 | NETANYAHU TO CODEL KYL ON ECONOMIC REFORMS, [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outlined for CODEL Kyl and the Ambassador in a January 9 meeting the economic reforms he has undertaken during his tenure. The reforms include cutting government expenses, reducing taxes, privatizing some state-owned enterprises, and fixing t [...] | 2005-01-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV2940 | FINANCE MINISTRY DIRECTOR GENERAL TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met May 9 with Finance Ministry DG Yossi Bachar to discuss a full range of bilateral economic issues, including Israel's request for U.S. assistance to promote Negev/Galilee development, an overview of the recently-concluded Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) [...] | 2005-05-10 15:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2947 | SETTLER SPOKESMAN: WE WILL FIGHT DISENGAGEMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: Eran Sternberg, Gush Katif Spokesman, told econoff on May 4 that, although some settlers are negotiating with the GOI on disengagement planning, the majority favor a continued struggle against the evacuation. He said the GOI is not ready with a solution for relocation, and the s [...] | 2005-05-11 08:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV2955 | FINANCE MINISTRY CONFIRMS GOI DISENGAGEMENT LAW [...] (C) Finance Ministry staff informed Mission May 11 that GOI disengagement legislation specifies a 3.4% deficit target, including disengagement expenditures, for 2005 only. This corrects statements made by Finance DG Bachar and by other Israeli officials during the Joint Economic Development G [...] | 2005-05-11 12:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2985 | KNESSET FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR BRIEFS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. Knesset Finance Committee chair Yaakov Litzman discussed Israeli economic and political developments with the Ambassador May 9. Litzman highlighted the difficult budgetary situation created by disengagement, noting that his committee had failed to agree that day on approving le [...] | 2005-05-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV2999 | PERES ADVISOR AND NSC ADVISOR CITE "SLOWDOWN" IN [...] (C) Vice PM Peres advisor Einat Wilf and NSC advisor Gabi Blum told EconCouns in separate meetings that a "slowdown" is taking place in joint GOI-PA technical negotiations, in part because of a proposed 70-point agenda the PA orally presented to the GOI that touches on "final status" issues su [...] | 2005-05-16 13:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3000 | SOME GAZANS QUESTION THE NEED FOR SETTLEMENT [...] (C) Summary and comment: Some elements within the Gazan business community have questioned the importance of intact transfer of the settlement greenhouses following Israeli withdrawal, suggesting that the GOI, the donor community, and the PA have done insufficient work convincing the private [...] | 2005-05-16 13:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID KWBG PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV3098 | GOI OFFICIALS GIVE READOUT OF RAMON-DAHLAN [...] (C) Summary: Several GOI officials shared their views on Tuesday,s meeting between GOI Minister Without Portfolio Haim Ramon and PA Civil Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan, with most interlocutors emphasizing that the Palestinians continue to focus on sensitive political issues that slow progr [...] | 2005-05-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL ECON IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3205 | COURT RULING FAVORS FATAH IN GAZA ELECTION DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: In response to Fatah allegations of Hamas fraud, a PA appeals court in Khan Yunis invalidated in rulings May 18 and 20 results from the May 5 municipal elections affecting some 46,000 voters in Rafah, al-Bureij, and Bayt Lahiya, and ordered new elections in the affected polling s [...] | 2005-05-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV3227 | GAZA DAIRY FARMER WANTS INTACT TRANSFER, DESCRIBE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Amidst halting progress on GOI-PA negotiations regarding the disposition of settlement assets, some settlement farmers are making independent attempts to secure the continuity of enterprises in which they have invested significant resources. The CEO of Omer Cattle M [...] | 2005-05-27 14:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG EAID ECON IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3244 | STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar discussed the disengagement process with high-ranking Israeli military and foreign affairs officials, minister without portfolio Matan Vilnai, senior members of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres' staff, and an opposition leader during a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusal [...] | 2005-05-31 06:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG OREP EG SY IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3246 | (S) CODEL KOLBE: SHARON DISSATISFIED WITH U.S. [...] (S) During a 75-minute meeting May 30 with Codel Kolbe, attended also by the Ambassador, Prime Minister Sharon described several reasons why he is not happy with current developments. In familiar terms, Sharon said that his and Israel's willingness to move forward in the peace process after [...] | 2005-05-31 09:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | IS KPAL OREP PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV350 | PERES ON INNOVATIVE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS FOR PA [...] (C) Summary: Deputy PM Shimon Peres met with the Ambassador recently and discussed prospects for renewed peace process negotiations with the PA, as well as his new role in coordinating economic aspects of the disengagement plan and development of the Negev and Galilee. Peres was skeptical t [...] | 2005-01-20 11:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON EFIN PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3505 | POLITICS AND BUREAUCRACY SLOW DISENGAGEMENT [...] (S) Summary: GOI contacts recently described bureaucratic and political obstacles to disengagement planning and GOI-PA coordination on the transfer of settlement assets, upgrades at the border crossings, and water talks. NSC advisor Gaby Blum characterized the MoD's takeover of leadership on [...] | 2005-06-07 07:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV363 | FINANCE MINISTRY DG ON U.S. ASSISTANCE, BUDGET AND [...] (C) Summary. Economic Counselor and Deputy held a wide-ranging meeting with Finance Ministry DG Yossi Bachar on January 18. Bachar discussed the Cabinet's January 16 decision to name him chair of a committee coordinating all assistance requests to the USG. He believes this would give coher [...] | 2005-01-21 07:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3672 | CODEL KOLBE MEETINGS WITH ISRAEL'S FOREIGN [...] THIS IS A JOINT MESSAGE FROM EMBASSY TEL AVIV AND CONGEN JERUSALEM. 2. (U) SUMMARY: DURING A MAY 29-31 VISIT TO ISRAEL AND THE WEST BANK, CODEL KOLBE MET WITH ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHALOM AND ISRAELI VICE PREMIER PERES, AMONG OTHERS. MINISTER SHALOM SPOKE ABOUT THE RECENT ELECTORAL S [...] | 2005-06-14 05:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PREL EAID IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV3749 | SHARON WINS NO-CONFIDENCE MOTIONS WITH NO EFFORT; [...] (C) Heavy media coverage of the Knesset's three failed no-confidence motions June 14 -- and their incorrect depiction as "defeats" for Prime Minister Sharon -- reflect a slow news week, opportunistic efforts by disengagement opponents to sow doubts with misleading data, and a prime minister s [...] | 2005-06-15 12:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV380 | GAZAN ECONOMY DISRUPTED BY KARNI CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Summary: The closure at Karni terminal, which has been in effect since the January 13 attack that killed six Israeli employees, has caused the agriculture, furniture, and garment sectors within Gaza to lose some USD four million and to lay off over 1,000 workers. In the Gazan marketpla [...] | 2005-01-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG ECON ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV381 | PA SECURITY FORCES BEGIN DEPLOYING IN NORTHERN GAZA [...] (C) Summary: A force of some 2,000 PA security personnel began deploying in the northeastern Gaza Strip, near Bayt Hanoun and Bayt Lahiya January 21 in an agreed-upon effort between the IDF and Gaza security chief Mousa Arafat aimed at preventing rocket fire at Israeli towns. Observers on th [...] | 2005-01-21 15:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV3891 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: RIBBONS SHOW ISRAELIS' TRUE [...] (SBU) In recent months, some Israeli motorists who oppose Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan have taken to tying orange ribbons on their vehicles to denote their opposition. Up until about a week ago, orange was the only color streaming from car -- and truck -- antennas, bumpers and [...] | 2005-06-21 13:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG SOCI IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV3956 | FM SHALOM'S BRIEFING TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom summoned Chiefs of Mission to Jerusalem June 22 to give an update on disengagement from Gaza and related issues. Clarifying PM Sharon's previous comments concerning disengagement under fire, he said that extremist attacks would halt disengagement only long enoug [...] | 2005-06-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4035 | BASSEY UPDATE ON DISENGAGEMENT PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),told Economic Counselor on June 14 that although only 300 families have applied for financial compensation, he expects a flood within the next two weeks. He said that 450 mobile homes will be ready in Nitzanim two [...] | 2005-06-27 11:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAGR KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4059 | AMOS GILAD ON PA POLITICS, DISENGAGEMENT PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Defense Political-Military bureau head Maj. Gen. Amos Gilad told EconCouns that the high level of USG and international community actors involved in disengagement planning -- including Quartet Special Envoy (QSE) Wolfensohn, Security Coordinator Gen. Ward, and A/S We [...] | 2005-06-28 11:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PTER EAID IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4063 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Japanese Special Envoy Tatsuo Arima and Japanese Ambassador to Israel Jun Yokota met with Ambassador Kurtzer on June 28 to share assessments of the current state of Palestian-Israeli issues. Arima said he had never seen Dov Weissglas, PM Sharon's Senior Advisor, so pessimistic, and that [...] | 2005-06-28 12:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG JA IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4110 | GILAD AND EILAND ON DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 17 meetings with NEA A/S Welch, DNSA Abrams, and the Ambassador, Israeli NSC Director Eiland and MoD Political-Military Director Amos Gilad both blamed PA failure to act against rocket and mortar attacks on Israel and Israeli settlements on the PA's overall weakne [...] | 2005-06-29 13:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV KPAL KWBG GZ EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4118 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (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 Trea [...] | 2005-06-30 10:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4149 | ISRAELI LEFT-WING LEADERS UNCERTAIN OF WHAT WILL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a June 29 dinner hosted by the Ambassador, leaders of the Labor and Yahad-Meretz parties could not agree on what steps the GOI will -- or even should -- take following disengagement. The group had divergent views on whether and to what degree Prime Minister Sharon [...] | 2005-07-01 12:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4194 | GOI OFFICIAL REAFFIRMS POLICY ON GAZA HOUSES, [...] (C) Shalom Turgeman, Prime Minister Sharon's foreign policy advisor, told the Ambassador early July 6 that the GOI's policy with respect to Gaza houses remains as conveyed to the Secretary, namely, the GOI will destroy the Gaza houses during the evacuation of the settlements, the Palestinia [...] | 2005-07-06 06:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4198 | GAZAN DISENGAGEMENT-RELATED AGRICULTURE [...] (C) Summary and comment: A series of discussions with GOI, PA, and Gazan private sector contacts June 27-29 has underscored the pressing need for agreement between the two sides on crossings and the transfer of settlement assets. On crossings, GOI representatives said that Karni terminal will [...] | 2005-07-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4199 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: VOTE ON DOOMED DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Yisrael Maimon, Cabinet Secretary, told Poloff July 4 that the Likud rebels decided late afternoon July 4 to postpone for two weeks a preliminary vote on a bill that would delay implementation of the disengagement plan by one year. The bill's sponsor, right-wing National Religious Party [...] | 2005-07-06 08:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4201 | GAZA NGO LEADER DESCRIBES HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Jamal Safi, chairman of the Environmental Protection and Research Institute (EPRI) and winner of the prestigious Zayed International Prize for the Environment, key health and environmental challenges for Gaza include blood-borne infectious diseases, lead poisoning [...] | 2005-07-06 09:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR TBIO SOCI KHIV PREL KPAL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4207 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: ATTORNEY GENERAL MAZUZ [...] (C) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz told Ministry of Justice Liaison to the Knesset Paz Barnett July 5 to convey directly to Poloff who was waiting in the adjoining office that he is about to announce his decision that an agreement between Israel and Egypt allowing Egypt to place some 750 bor [...] | 2005-07-06 12:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4265 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: WAKING UP TO REALITY IN GAZA: [...] Summary: As the disengagement battle escalates on the ground, with violent confrontations in Gaza resulting in a temporary IDF closure of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, anti- disengagement roadblocks throughout the country, and the first case of a "conscientious objector," Israeli media comm [...] | 2005-07-08 14:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR GAZA DISENGAGEMENT MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
05TELAVIV4284 | ISRAELI HOUSING MINISTER DISCUSSES SETTLEMENTS AND [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Minister of Housing Isaac Herzog on July 6 at the Knesset to discuss Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the disengagement process. Herzog said that he had stopped all new residential construction beyond the green line, but intends to eventually appro [...] | 2005-07-11 12:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV430 | JUSTICE MINISTRY DG PROVIDES DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE [...] (C) Looking visibly tired, Justice Ministry DG Aaron Abramovich updated Economic Counselor and Deputy on the "hectic" period ahead on disengagement. He said he and his team were about to embark on a week of intensive consultations with the Finance Committee Disengagement Subcommittee prior to [...] | 2005-01-25 14:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4335 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: SHARON INDICATES HE WILL SEEK [...] (C) Prime Minister Sharon indicated to the press July 12 that he will seek Knesset approval of an Israeli-Egyptian agreement -- that has not yet been finalized -- allowing some 750 Egyptian border guard soldiers to secure the Egyptian-Gaza border as part of implementing the disengagement plan [...] | 2005-07-13 13:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4403 | ISRAELI MOD DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND GROWING NUMBER OF TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL KWBG KPAL PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4417 | EIVAL GILADY'S VISION OF POST-DISENGAGEMENT GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res) Eival Gilady, a special advisor to PM Sharon on disengagement, met with Assistant Secretary Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, and Lt. General Ward to discuss post-disengagement Gaza and future relations between Israel and Gaza. Gilady said that Israel will not tr [...] | 2005-07-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4419 | RAMON DESCRIBES DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 14 meeting, Minister without Portfolio Haim Ramon described disengagement coordination priorities for Assistant Secretary Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, and Lt. General Ward. Ramon expressed his desire to coordinate $50 million in USG assistance for improving passages with [...] | 2005-07-19 04:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EAID ETRD KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4619 | STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Histadrut labor federation leader and candidate for head of the Labor Party Amir Peretz on July 11 to discuss disengagement, the peace process and Israeli politics. Peretz expressed support for disengagement, but was suspicious that the GOI is intentional [...] | 2005-07-25 07:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELAB ECON EAID KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4621 | CHIEF DISENGAGEMENT AUTHORITY BASSEY DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),on July 11 to discuss Israel,s ongoing preparations for the upcoming evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank under Prime Minister Ariel S [...] | 2005-07-25 07:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4694 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: FINAL VOTES STILL TO COME ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sharon still faces two GOI votes related to his disengagement plan. The first, a Cabinet vote authorizing the evacuation of settlers, must take place before disengagement implementation begins on August 17. Still to be determined is whether the Cabinet will stick [...] | 2005-07-27 15:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4715 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, JULY 28, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of regular reports tracking progress on disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA. On the six priority areas outlined by Quartet Special Envoy (QSE) Wolfensohn, Ministers Mofaz and Dahlan agreed that door-to-door movement of goods shoul [...] | 2005-07-28 15:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4766 | Gaza's moderate Islamists muse on "after [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A trio of Islamic scholars from Al Azhar University, like many Gazan interlocutors, on 28 July cited freedom of movement for Gazans and their goods as the test of disengagement. Recently returned from an International Visitors program, the leaders also spoke favorably of relig [...] | 2005-08-02 09:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | GZ PREL KPAO OEXC SCUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4775 | GAZAN BUSINESS STRUGGLES WITH DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Gazan private sector contacts are on edge over current GOI-PA negotiations regarding the post-disengagement border crossings, arguing that without freedom of movement at Karni, Erez, and Rafah terminals, the Gazan economy will not survive Israel's withdrawal. Business leaders b [...] | 2005-08-02 13:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG EAID PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV4819 | DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION: THE CUSTOMS UNION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-04 11:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | ECON ETRD EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV4820 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, AUGUST 4, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of regular reports tracking progress on disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA. The IDF will open Karni and Erez terminals two days a week for Gazans during "lockdown;" the GOI is considering a trilateral meeting on the passages; VP [...] | 2005-08-04 11:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4829 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: ISRAELI CABINET SET TO VOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Cabinet is scheduled to vote August 7 on the evacuation of at least one of the four groups of settlements slated to be evacuated beginning August 17 pursuant to Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan. The vote will take place at the end of a week during which tens of tho [...] | 2005-08-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4859 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: RELIGIOUS ZIONISM VS. THE STATE [...] Summary: With disengagement slated to begin less than two weeks from now, it seems most Gaza settlers have grasped that, be it voluntarily or by force, they will soon be effectively "disengaged" from their Gaza Strip homes. The goal, therefore, of the anti-disengagement campaign has shifted [...] | 2005-08-05 14:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4862 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, AUGUST 5, 2005 [...] (C) This report summarizes current GOI views on the progress of disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA and updates from the Quartet Special Envoy's (QSE) staff. The August 4 trilateral held under QSE Wolfensohn auspices generated concurrence on how to organize upcoming GOI-PA [...] | 2005-08-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID KWBG KPAL PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4879 | NETANYAHU BECOMES SPOILER WITHOUT SPOILS AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic August 7 resignation from government will not affect implementation of the disengagement plan starting August 17. It will also not bring down Prime Minister Sharon's government since the opposition is not sufficiently united to must [...] | 2005-08-08 12:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4880 | FINANCE MINISTER NETANYAHU RESIGNS: ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Benyamin Netanyahu resigned on Sunday, August 7th during the Cabinet session in which the implementation of the first stage of disengagement was approved. Within hours of Netanyahu's resignation the stock market in Israel lost 5.3% of its value. Late Sunday n [...] | 2005-08-08 12:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL ELAB EAIR IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV4883 | CODEL KING'S MEETING WITH GOI SECURITY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Codel King met with Minister of Public Security Gideon Ezra where discussions focused on disengagement, anti-disengagement protests, and related security concerns. Ezra stressed the importance of intelligence gathering and sharing as a necessary tool in combating terrorism, both [...] | 2005-08-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV4894 | IDF CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS DISENGAGEMENT HAS NOT [...] (S) SUMMARY. In an August 3 meeting with Deputy National Security Adviser Abrams, the Ambassador and Gen. Ward, the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said that disengagement has not harmed the IDF as an institution. It has, however, created problems, particularly in the area [...] | 2005-08-09 08:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY |
05TELAVIV4974 | GAZA CONTACT SEES IMPROVED SECURITY, DIMINISHED [...] (C) Longtime Gaza contact and PA Interior Ministry civil servant Abdul Samia Efrangi told DCM and POL/C August 10 that Nasser Yusif's consolidation of security services and improvements on the street have Gazans feeling better about security and diminishing their view of Hamas, even though Fa [...] | 2005-08-11 14:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5009 | (SBU) THE ARREST OF SAADIA HERSHKOP: A [...] SUMMARY: The well-publicized arrest of Saadia Hershkop (DPOB:04-Mar-1987 NY) provides a window into the measures the Government of Israel is willing to take to ensure that Disengagement moves forward, the treatment American citizens may receive if arrested as part of anti-Disengagement activi [...] | 2005-08-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC GZ KPAL PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI SOCIETY ISRAEL RELATIONS |
05TELAVIV501 | SHARON BANKING ON SHAS, DISENGAGEMENT SUPPORTERS, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon's travails to gain a Knesset majority for the 2005 budget before the March 31 deadline continue to center on bringing Shas into the coalition. Two weeks of fruitless negotiations between Likud and Shas could come to a head January 30, when Sharon plans to m [...] | 2005-01-28 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5013 | LIKUD INTERNAL STORM POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-12 13:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5014 | YONATAN BASSEY: "WE'VE SEEN A REGRESSION IN [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),told Economic Counselor on August 9 that approximately 700 settler families are unprepared for the evacuations slated to begin early next week. He blamed the settlers' rabbis and community leaders for misleading th [...] | 2005-08-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV5019 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: GEN. DANGOTT UPDATES [...] (C) DEFMIN Mofaz's Military Adviser, General Eitan Dangott, updated Ambassador August 12 on status of ongoing GOI-Palestinian negotiations on post-disengagement issues, including the disposition of settler housing, the degree of authority for Gaza, improvement in passages, the Gaza disputed bo [...] | 2005-08-12 16:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID KWBG KPAL PREL MARR PTER IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5021 | ISRAEL AND EGYPT REPORTEDLY REACH FINAL AGREEMENT [...] (C) Ministry of Defense Deputy Director General Amos Gilad called the Ambassador August 15 to report that Israel and Egypt had reached agreement overnight on the principles and details for the deployment of Egyptian border guards on the Gaza-Egypt border. Gilad said the final touches on the a [...] | 2005-08-15 06:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5022 | SHARON: DISENGAGEMENT IS "COMPLICATED, PAINFUL AND [...] Prime Minister Sharon met August 14 with an AIPAC-sponsored Congressional delegation headed by Congressman Steny Hoyer and comprised of 10 Democratic Members of the House. AIPAC board members and staffers attended. Ambassador Kurtzer also joined the meeting. Sharon was relaxed and voluble, [...] | 2005-08-15 07:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS KPAL PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL PEACE PROCESS |
05TELAVIV5051 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 15, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The first day of disengagement proceeded as planned with minimal violence well within anticipated parameters. The message below outlines the dissemination of eviction notices to settlers; the overall security situation in Gaza, including the kidnapping of a French journalist b [...] | 2005-08-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5055 | SPIEGEL UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON BORDER CROSSINGS AND [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, Ministry of Defense (MOD) advisor, told the Ambassador on August 12 that the MOD continues to work with the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to agree on the definition and number of roadblocks in the West Bank (WB). [...] | 2005-08-16 10:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5078 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 16, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the second day of disengagement, Neve Dekalim settlement remained a stronghold of resistance to evacuation. Settlers and thousands of anti-disengagement activists blocked IDF troops from entering to distribute eviction notices, although the IDF was able to negotiate and br [...] | 2005-08-16 15:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5082 | NSA EILAND SAYS DISENGAGEMENT GOING WELL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: In an August 15 meeting with NEA A/S Welch and the Ambassador, Israeli NSC Director Giora Eiland and Deputy Director Eran Etzion assessed that it seems disengagement "is going to be easier than expected." The majority of the discussion centered on what would happen after diseng [...] | 2005-08-17 04:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV5093 | KNESSET MEMBERS VISIT GAZA SETTLEMENTS, SOME [...] (C) Knesset members who support disengagement as well as those who oppose it have been visiting the Gaza settlements since the disengagement process began August 15. Some have gone to show support for the settlers, while others have gone to show sensitivity to the settlers, but also to suppor [...] | 2005-08-17 12:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL SETTLEMENTS |
05TELAVIV5099 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 17, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the third day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police began to evacuate several settlements by force, meeting almost exclusively non-violent resistance. While most settlers continued to leave their homes either voluntarily or after brief non-violent refusal, Israeli Polic [...] | 2005-08-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5103 | (S) ISRAELI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF: GOI [...] (S) Summary: Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence Aharon Ze'evi Farkash told A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that he was surprised by U.S. media reports on a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that Iran could build its first nuclear weapon only by 2015. He noted that recent U.S. [...] | 2005-08-18 07:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | KPAL KWBG PREF PTER EG IR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS |
05TELAVIV5104 | A/S WELCH DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer and General Ward met with Minister of Defense Mofaz and his key staff on August 16 to review the status of settler evacuation from Gaza, and to discuss the status of an Israel-Egyptian protocol on troop deployments along Egypt's border with Gaza. A/ [...] | 2005-08-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS ASEC KWBG KPAL PINS ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5105 | EIVAL GILADY ON GAZA DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res) Eival Gilady, a special advisor to PM Sharon on disengagement, met August 16 with Assistant Secretary (A/S) Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer to discuss progress in Gaza disengagement. Gilady said that the Prime Minister's disengagement plan was proceeding more [...] | 2005-08-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL ETRD EG IS KBTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5132 | CORRECTED COPY: DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fourth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating Kfar Darom, Kfar Yam, and Neve Dekalim. The security forces encountered some resistance in these settlements, particularly from young infiltrators from outside of the Gaza Strip who barricaded t [...] | 2005-08-18 16:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5133 | SHINUI LIKELY TO SUPPORT EGYPTIAN BORDER [...] (C) A recently-finalized agreement between Israel and Egypt allowing some 750 Egyptian border guards to secure the Egyptian-Gaza border after disengagement is likely to receive Knesset approval with the support of Shinui. Shinui MKs Ilan Leibovitch, Eti Livni, and Ilan Shalgi, told Poloff Aug [...] | 2005-08-18 16:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV5137 | A/S WELCH'S MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD [...] (S) Israeli Defense Ministry Political Security Director Amos Gilad confirmed to visiting NEA A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that Egypt and Israel had reached a general agreement on the deployment of 750 Egyptian Border Guards along the Egypt-Gaza border. Israeli DefMin Mofaz is e [...] | 2005-08-19 11:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS PARM KPAL KWBG PGOV PINR EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5138 | NEA A/S WELCH'S AUGUST 16, 2005 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Israeli MOD Director General Amos Yaron updated NEA A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer and General Ward August 16 on the status of post-Gaza disengagement issues. On the disposition of settler housing, Yaron asked the USG to continue its efforts to identify a program manager to oversee removal [...] | 2005-08-19 11:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV5154 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 19, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fifth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the settlement of Gadid. At the beginning of the day, ten families and over 300 infiltrators remained, but the evacuation was complete by around 1500 hours. The GOI also began demolishing homes i [...] | 2005-08-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5155 | FM SHALOM TELLS A/S WELCH THAT ISRAELIS MUST SEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 17 meeting, FM Silvan Shalom told Assistant Secretary Welch and the Ambassador that disengagement is proceeding better than expected, but still carries a heavy price for Likud politicians. Shalom expressed concern that Palestinian extremists could launch attacks agai [...] | 2005-08-21 17:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS UNGA GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV5157 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 21, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the seventh day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the remaining southern Gaza Strip settlements of Katif and Atzmona and some remaining families in Shelo/Shalev/Slav -- after a day (August 20) of inaction due to the Sabbath. The Israeli cabinet [...] | 2005-08-21 17:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5186 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 22, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the eighth day of disengagement, the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlers concluded without incident. The evacuation proceeded smoothly with little of the protest that marked the evacuations of Kfar Darom or Atzmona. Removal and relocation of agricultural equipment from G [...] | 2005-08-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5219 | IDF DEPUTY COS KAPLINSKY UPDATES A/S WELCH ON [...] (C) Summary: In an August 22 meeting, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff MG Moshe Kaplinsky told Assistant Secretary Welch, the Ambassador, and Security Coordinator General Ward that disengagement is proceeding ahead of schedule. Kaplinsky praised ongoing GOI-PA security coordination and expressed hop [...] | 2005-08-24 05:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5258 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 25, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli disengagement is proceeding, with demolition of remaining settlements underway. Israeli focus has now turned to the situation of evacuees in Israel, and on political maneuvering post-disengagement. A gun battle that ensued during an Israeli operation near Tulkarm overn [...] | 2005-08-25 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5285 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 26, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve on August 28 an agreement with Egypt allowing Egypt to post 750 Border Guards on the Egypt-Gaza border. Meanwhile, Israeli pundits and the weekend press ponder the impact of disengagement. The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot reported A [...] | 2005-08-26 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5307 | Through Israeli Eyes Only: Gaza journalists on the media [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations with EMBOFF on 25 August, three Gaza journalists gave similar reasons for what they described as the "Israeli-only" media coverage of disengagement. Fear of kidnapping, as in the case of the French journalist seized on 15 August and freed on 22 August, k [...] | 2005-08-29 13:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | GZ IS KWBG KPAO OPRC GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI SOCIETY |
05TELAVIV5308 | MINISTER RAMON TELLS A/S WELCH USG MUST KEEP [...] (C) Summary: On August 21 Minister without Portfolio Haim Ramon updated A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, Acting AID Mission Director Harden and Econoff on the GOI's position on Gaza crossings, particularly the impasse over Rafah. Ramon stressed that Minister of Defense Mofaz remains "totally [...] | 2005-08-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV531 | PALESTINIAN INVESTMENT FUND EARNINGS MAY SEED GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF) will vote February 10-12 on whether to cash out on over USD 300 million of capital gains made on worldwide investments. Board members are split over the vote, reportedly fearing that PA MinFin Salaam Fayyad will appropriate earnings for his o [...] | 2005-01-31 05:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV534 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BURNS MEETING WITH DEPUTY [...] (S) Summary: In a January 25 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary Burns and the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister SIPDIS Peres outlined GOI efforts to revitalize the Palestinian economy. Noting the unexpected success of PA Prime Minister Abu Mazen's steps toward improving the security situa [...] | 2005-01-31 08:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5343 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 30, 2005 [...] (SBU) The IDF continues to make steady progress in implementing the GOI disengagement. Hamas and Fatah personnel clashed near Rafah. Otherwise few notable security incidents took place in the last twenty-four hours. The GOI appears to have agreed to a phased handover of settlement areas i [...] | 2005-08-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV535 | OLMERT TELLS A/S BURNS TO TIE PALESTINIANS TO [...] (C) Summary: Deputy PM Ehud Olmert urged NEA A/S Burns and the USG to use creative means of engagement such as developing QIZs when assisting the Palestinians so as to tie Palestinian economic fortunes to continued good relations with Israel. Despite advocating such ties, Olmert rejected any [...] | 2005-01-31 08:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
05TELAVIV5359 | EU HIGHREP SOLANA PRAISES DISENGAGEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: According to the MFA and the EC delegation, High Representative Javier Solana's discussions with Israeli officials on August 28-30 focused on using the success of disengagement to foster movement on the roadmap. Despite a generally positive atmosphere, Solana made little progress [...] | 2005-08-31 14:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL EU IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5360 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 31, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: The Knesset approved (58-23) the Israeli agreement with Egypt allowing Egypt to post 750 Border Guards on the Egypt-Gaza border, and the GOI plans to sign the agreement on September 1. Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman briefed General Ward on his August 31 meeting with P [...] | 2005-08-31 16:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5515 | DISENGAGEMENT: GAZA BUSINESSMEN BOTH HOPEFUL AND [...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, nine businessmen from the Gaza Strip stressed that freedom of movement for people and goods was essential to achieving economic prosperity after disengagement. They claimed that the GOI's proposal for a trilateral border crossing at Ke [...] | 2005-09-07 10:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPAL EINV EAID IS PTER GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5581 | PEACE NOW ANALYZES THE DISENGAGEMENT PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, Secretary General of Peace Now, said that the disengagement from the Gaza Strip had gone very well, and in particular praised the IDF soldiers and the police for the way in which they negotiated with settlers throughout the evacuations. He said that he had fa [...] | 2005-09-09 14:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV570 | ISRAEL'S COMMITMENTS TO THE USG AND THE WORLD BANK [...] (S) Summary. As of the end of January 2005, the GOI had shown various levels of commitment to fulfilling its "Weissglas" commitments to the USG. It is following through more consistently on its promise to engage on the World Bank process dedicated to facilitating a viable, post-disengagement [...] | 2005-01-31 15:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL ECON KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5716 | GAZA: SECURITY DETERIORATES, PA HESITATES BUT [...] (C) Summary: A Norwegian diplomat who has covered the Gaza Strip for the past two years sees the security situation deteriorating even further in the coming months. He believes that a variety of armed groups, including factions within Fatah, will continue to seek illicit financial and politi [...] | 2005-09-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL ECON EAID KDEM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5723 | GAZA STRIP: EUPHORIA OR ANARCHY? [...] (SBU) A PA Ministry of Interior contact told poloff September 16 that the situation in Rafah remains "a big mess," with movement of Egyptians and Palestinians across the border through up to seven openings. The MOI contact, who visited Rafah on September 15 and remained in touch with his cont [...] | 2005-09-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV575 | ISRAELI BUSINESS LEADER ENVISIONS A [...] (C) Summary: Dov Lautman, chairman of the board of the Israeli textile giant Delta, talked to EconCouns January 23 about economic prospects for a post-disengagement Gaza Strip. Emphasizing that it is impossible to "predict the future" of security and politics, Lautman argued that donors must [...] | 2005-02-01 06:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV5779 | FM SHALOM MEETING WITH CODEL DAVIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom briefed CODEL Davis August 31 on the Government of Israel's Disengagement Plan, and anticipated costs associated with moving military forces and with developing the Negev and the Galilee. Asked about post-Disengagement scenarios and PM Sharon's d [...] | 2005-09-22 09:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAL EAID KWBG PREF IS IR LE EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5794 | NEA DAS DIBBLE'S 9/20 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S [...] (S) Israeli MOD Political-Military Affairs Bureau Chief Amos Gilad told NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble September 19 that the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is a pillar of the recently-concluded Egypt-Israel agreement on the Egypt-Gaza border and performs a vital role monitoring changes alon [...] | 2005-09-21 03:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PINR MARR MASS PARM KPAL PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5797 | GAZA CROSSINGS: GOI TIGHTENS INSPECTIONS OF GOODS [...] (U) This cable was cleared with ConGen Jerusalem 2. (SBU) Summary: In response to last week's unrestricted flow of people and goods through the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, the GOI recently implemented additional measures regulating the flow of goods through the Karni crossin [...] | 2005-09-23 15:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELTN ETRD PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5799 | MOFAZ: CALM ALLOWS GOI TO HOLD OFF GAZA ACTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Ambassador Jones September 25 that the day's calm, after some than 36 hours of Qassam rocket launches and IDF counterattacks, is allowing the GOI to stand back and avoid any further strikes on Palestinian targets. He said any possible ground forc [...] | 2005-09-25 16:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV5800 | NSA EILAND ON POST-DISENGAGEMENT STEPS FOR MOVING [...] (C) Summary: Israeli National Security Advisor Giora Eiland briefed NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble September 21 on steps Israel and the Palestinians can take over the coming year to build on the success of Israeli disengagement. DAS Dibble raised the situation at Rafah, and Eiland cited major poin [...] | 2005-09-26 05:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL PINS PGOV KDEM IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5849 | GAZA: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Gaza, the stronghold of the radical Islamist terrorist organization HAMAS, presents exceptional challenges for USG efforts to combat violent extremism. Our strategic approach is to promote Palestinian democracy, strengthen the rule of law, reform the security sector, offer economic alter [...] | 2005-09-27 08:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM |
05TELAVIV5864 | AMB. JONES' 9/26 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD [...] (S/NF) In a September 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Israeli MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad indicated that his September 25 meetings in Egypt to discuss the Rafah passage on the Egypt-Gaza border yielded no breakthroughs. Gilad said the Israelis prefer to open Rafah passage a [...] | 2005-09-27 16:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MASS KPAL KWBG EG IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5866 | POSSIBLE POST-DISENGAGEMENT SCENARIOS [...] (SBU) Summary: Predictions about the universe of post-disengagement possibilities can be grouped into three possible scenarios and two remote options, according to a range of Israeli observers. The first scenario -- the roadmap scenario -- is the official position of the Government of Israel [...] | 2005-09-28 06:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWBG KPAL PINS PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5941 | ISRAEL/WBG: EU OFFICIAL OUTLINES EXPANDED POLICE [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador on September 30, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Marc Otte outlined EU plans to expand its police program in the West Bank and Gaza and EU preparations for a possible third-party role at the Rafah crossing. Otte al [...] | 2005-10-03 08:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU KWBG KPAL IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV595 | HAMAS WINS BIG IN GAZA ON "CLEAN GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Summary: The Hamas sweep in the local-level Gazan elections of January 27 does not indicate a mandate for Hamas overall or broad-based support for continued armed struggle against Israel, according to numerous Embassy contacts. While Fatah compiled a list of candidates perceived as corrup [...] | 2005-02-01 14:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5956 | PA-HAMAS CONFRONTATION IN GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Clashes took place in Gaza City on October 2 between Palestinian Authority (PA) policemen and Hamas gunmen. Three Palestinians were killed -- a senior police officer and two civilians -- while at least 51 were wounded, many of whom were bystanders. Two police stations in Gaza Ci [...] | 2005-10-03 14:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KWBG KPAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6020 | WATER OFFICIALS DISCUSS COOPERATION FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: At Trilateral Water Talks in Tel Aviv September 22 Israeli and Palestinian water officials agreed to discuss possible new water supplies for Gaza, including the purchase of water from the Israeli grid for the former settlement areas and the possibility of larger quantities from t [...] | 2005-10-07 14:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAID PREL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6084 | KIDNAPPING OF KNIGHT RIDDER JOURNALISTS [...] (C) The October 12 kidnapping of an American reporter, Dion Nissenbaum, and a British photographer, Adam Pletts, near Khan Yunis is symptomatic of the lawlessness that prevails in the Gaza Strip, according to Embassy Fatah contacts in Gaza. An influential Fatah-affiliated lawyer in Gaza City [...] | 2005-10-14 16:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL PGOV PINS PTER US UK GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6127 | PM OFFICE DG SAYS RETURN TO ROADMAP VITAL TO [...] (C) In an October 6 meeting with Ambassador Jones, Ilan Cohen, the Director General of the PM,s Office, said that Israeli society needed to heal the serious rifts that had been opened by the disengagement from Gaza. On the peace process, he said that there would be no West Bank disengagemen [...] | 2005-10-19 13:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IS PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6176 | PERES: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT INCOMPLETE [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Premier Peres said that advancing the peace process and combating poverty in Israel would be the most important issues in the lead up to elections late next year. He stated that the GOI's disengagement from the Gaza Strip would be i [...] | 2005-10-24 09:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6228 | SHARON STAYS HIS COURSE FOLLOWING HADERA BOMBING [...] (C) Summary: The October 26 suicide bombing of the Hadera market by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that claimed the lives of five Israelis and wounded 20 has resulted in a cycle of violence that -- barring significant additional casualties -- experience indicates will be short-term. As it h [...] | 2005-10-28 17:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6246 | STAFFDEL ZWEIG/ADAMS-GOI DISCUSSIONS ON HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: HIRC professional staff members Matthew Zweig and David Adams discussed Hamas and PLC elections, progress on the Wolfensohn agenda, Israeli relations with Muslim states, and UN issues with Israelis, the Wolfensohn team, and USG officials during a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on [...] | 2005-10-31 16:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP IS EG ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL COUNTERTERRORISM GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6264 | EC DEL HEAD IN ISRAEL SAYS EU IS AIMING FOR 11/15 [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting at the European Commission Delegation's office in Tel Aviv, EC Delegation Head Ambassador Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal told Ambassador Jones that the EU's objective is to have the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border opened by November 15. Cibrian-Uzal said his EC Dele [...] | 2005-11-01 15:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV633 | NEW DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT FUELS DISENGAGEMENT DEBATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A recent study claiming that the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza is overestimated by up to 1.5 million people has made headlines in Israel and provided ammunition to opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. The new numbers, howev [...] | 2005-02-02 12:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6357 | LIVNI DISCUSSES THIRD PARTY, HAMAS, OUTPOSTS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni told the Ambassador on November 3 that, although "the numbers do not show it yet," Sharon will find a majority for his ministerial nominations because most Likud members do not want new elections. She said that it is significant that Israel has ac [...] | 2005-11-04 16:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6396 | RAMON SUPPORTS WEST BANK-GAZA RAIL LINK AS AN [...] (S) In a November 8 meeting, Minister without Portfolio Haim Ramon confirmed to Ambassador Jones that the GOI would accept the initiation of a technical feasibility study for what the GOI prefers to call a "transportation connection" between Gaza and the West Bank. Ramon presented proposed t [...] | 2005-11-08 15:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | ECON IS KWBG PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6397 | MOD'S AMOS GILAD SAYS HE WILL PUSH TO GET GAZAN [...] (C) Israeli MOD POL-MIL Bureau Director Amos Gilad told the Ambassador November 8 that (a) he will work vigorously to ensure that this year's harvest from Gaza is allowed to pass through the Qarni crossing between Gaza and Israel so that it can be distributed to markets beyond; and (b) he will [...] | 2005-11-08 16:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KPAL KWBG MARR MASS EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6516 | ISRAEL/WBG: EU ENVOY ADVOCATES "SOFT" OPENING FOR [...] (C) Summary: During a November 9 meeting with the Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Mark Otte advised that the GOI and PA were close to a final agreement on re-opening the Rafah crossing. The only major obstacle remaining was the lack of agreement on how [...] | 2005-11-16 10:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EU IS KPAL KWBG PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV6797 | GOI-PA CONTACTS ON CONVOYS FROZEN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Major General Yossef Mishlev, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) advised that the GOI has a plan for re-establishing bus convoys between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The "pilot plan" proposes a single [...] | 2005-12-06 16:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELTN ETRD PREL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV723 | PERES PURSUES DIRECT TALKS ON GAZA DISENGAGEMENT [...] (S) Summary: DPM Shimon Peres is moving quickly to initiate direct negotiations with the PA on Gaza Disengagement economic issues. Following the template established by the World Bank process, Peres met February 2 with Mohammed Dahlan and Sa'eb Erekat to set a path toward face to face negoti [...] | 2005-02-07 08:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV76 | NASSER YUSIF ON POSSIBLE SECURITY ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Force BG Nasser Yusif told poloffs recently that, if called upon to join an Abu Mazen government as interior minister, he would bring the green-uniform public security forces, Force 17, and the naval or coastal police under his personal operational control, an [...] | 2005-01-05 16:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PREL PTER ASEC GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV803 | DEFENSE MINISTRY DENIES VERACITY OF FEB 8 HA'ARETZ [...] (U) A February 8 article in Ha'aretz quotes a senior security official as saying that Israel will evacuate illegal outposts in the West Bank only after the implementation of the disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. According to the security official, the GOI's com [...] | 2005-02-09 14:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV826 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: FM SHALOM RESURRECTS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's late-breaking campaign for a national referendum on disengagement has exacerbated divisions within Likud over disengagement, but will fail given steadfast opposition from Prime Minister Sharon and a Likud-proof majority of Knesset members. Likud [...] | 2005-02-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV922 | PALTRADE OFFICER ON SETTLEMENT GREENHOUSES, PAPA [...] (C) Summary: PalTrade cash crops officer Hashim Al-Hussaini spoke to Econoff February 9 on Gazan agribusiness and job creation post-disengagement. On settlement assets, Hussaini emphasized the need for direct GOI-PA security coordination in order to safeguard greenhouses and other infrastru [...] | 2005-02-15 15:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KWBG EAID IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV930 | SENATOR ALLEN'S FEBRUARY 13 MEETING WITH MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Member George Allen met with Ministry of Defense Deputy Director General for Political-Military Affairs Amos Gilad February 13. Gilad focused on GOI efforts to coordinate with Egypt on security aspects of the disengagement plan, in particular [...] | 2005-02-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV955 | SENATOR ALLEN'S FEBRUARY 13 MEETING WITH FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Senator Allen and Finance Minister Bibi Netanyahu discussed the present situation between Israel and the Palestinians and Gaza disengagement. Netanyahu was guardedly optimistic about prospects for further steps toward accommodation with the PA noting that Abu Mazen faced seriou [...] | 2005-02-17 07:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON OVIP KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
06TELAVIV1438 | BASSEY DISCUSSES THE PROBLEMS OF GAZA EVACUEES AND [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),told EconCouns on April 4 that Gaza disengagement was a success because the level of violence was lower than he had predicted a year ago. He commented, however, that the evacuees have had a very difficult time adju [...] | 2006-04-10 15:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI SOCIETY |
06TELAVIV370 | ISRAEL AND TURKEY BEGIN COOPERATION ON EREZ [...] (C) Summary: On January 5 the governments of Israel and Turkey signed a Joint Declaration on contributing to the economic development and promotion of the Gaza Strip by establishing a Turkish management company that will operate the Erez industrial zone. According to the Turkish Embassy, this [...] | 2006-01-26 16:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPAL KWBG PREL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
06TELAVIV389 | MISHLEV DISCUSSES PA ELECTIONS, KARNI AND RAFAH [...] (C) Summary: Major General Yosef Mishlev told the Ambassador January 24 that preparations for the Palestinian elections were going well, and that the GOI and the Palestinian Authority (PA) had established joint coordination rooms in the West Bank and Gaza for election day to handle security. [...] | 2006-01-27 16:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS |
06TELAVIV634 | EREZ CLOSES FOLLOWING ARMED ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: Israeli officials closed the Erez crossing for an indefinite period following an assault by armed Palestinian gunmen in the early hours of February 9. Israeli soldiers killed the attackers. There were no Israeli casualties. An MOD official said that, during the period of Karni [...] | 2006-02-10 17:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
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