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Likud candidates: Annex historic heartland; use Hamas prisoners as shields


By Stan Goodenough
December 01, 2008

Two Likud Party members running for election to the next Israeli Knesset at the weekend voiced their views on controversial issues facing Israel.

Land-of-Israel activist Yechiel Leiter - a former director-general of the Ministry of Education and a senior aide to Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon - has reportedly launched a diplomatic plan that would see 50 percent of Samaria and Judea annexed to the State of Israel.

Leitner deflected criticism from those who charged that he would thereby sanction the surrender of half Israel's historic lands. Annexation was "a long process," he argued. "It could take 10 years, or even 25 years. Once that works, then we’ll take it from there.”

Meanwhile, Knesset Member Gilad Erdan Sunday called for captured Hamas terrorists to be imprisoned in areas that are targeted by their organization in its unrelenting rocket attacks on southern Israel.

Explaining his idea of putting Arab security prisoners in harms way so as to deter Hamas from firing its Kassam and other missiles at Israel, Erdan said there was "no reason why the terrorists who are imprisoned in Israel should be safe."

Erdan also slammed caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's latest plan to release hundreds more Arab prisoners in a goodwill gesture to the "Palestinians."

It is "a continuation of that same crazy process of surrendering to terror," he said.

One of the Likud's rising young princes who is regarded as close in his thinking to Likud leader Netanyahu, Erdan performed well in the previous general election and is hoping to secure a senior slot next February.

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