'Referendum failed, now for the fight'

Hundreds take part in right-wing conference, told to go house-to-house to explain cause; Knesset Member Yitzhak Levi: If civil war, Sharon caused it

Reuters | Published: 04.11.05, 23:09

While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was meeting with President George Bush in Crawford, Texas on Monday, the right-wing National Union party held an anti-disengagement convention in Tel Aviv.

Party members distributed "disengagement kits," and Knesset members Yitzhak Levi, Benny Elon

and other party members encouraged hundreds of supporters to go door-to-door and explain to ordinary Israelis why the pullout plan is bad for Israel.

The kits contained explanation materials and a DVD.

“Everyone speaks about disengagement as if it is only our problem,” Elon said. “This is wrong.”

Won't be silenced

Elon said although the Knesset battle to foil disengagement had failed, activists would now take their campaign to the streets.

He said the media paints the settlers as inciters, and added the group "would not allow this lie to go unanswered."

“Our voices will not be silenced,” Elon said.

No difference between Sderot, Neve Dekalim

Elon’s colleague, former National Religious Party Head Yitzhak Levy, told supporters “every intelligent person can see the danger inherent in the disengagement plan."

“Even defense minister (Shaul Mofaz) knows it will be bad for Israel,” he said.

According to Levy, “Israel knows that if there are no Jews in Gaza, terror will return all over Israel.

"For the Palestinians, there is no difference between Neve Dekalim and Sderot,” he said.

Levy also said that if a civil war would erupt in Israel, Prime Minister Sharon will bear full responsibility.

Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad told supporters “there are thousands fo Jews who can’t sleep at night, who sleep with one eye open, thinking about that most terrible of days."

Eldad moved to the West Bank community of Sa Nur last week, in violation of an IDF ban on moving to settlements slated for withdrawal. On Sunday he began a protest march to visit communities slated for evacuation, and said they would visit Dotan on Tuesday.