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Speaker announces Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to podium2. Woman in audience3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew): Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister:\"I take this opportunity to appeal to the Palestinians...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHerzliya, Israel - 18 December 2003\u003cbr/\u003e1. Speaker announces Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to podium\u003cbr/\u003e2. Woman in audience\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew): Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I take this opportunity to appeal to the Palestinians and repeat, as I said in Aqaba, it is not in our interest to govern you. We would like you to govern yourselves in your own country. A democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in Judea and Samaria and economic viability\u003cbr/\u003ewhich would conduct normal relations of tranquility, security and peace with Israel. Abandon the path of terror and let us together stop the\u003cbr/\u003ebloodshed. Let us move forward together towards peace. We wish to speedily advance implementation of the 'road map' towards quiet and a genuine peace. We hope that the Palestinian Authority will carry out its part. However, if in a few months the Palestinians still continue to disregard their part in implementing the 'road map', then Israel will initiate the unilateral security step of disengagement from the Palestinians. The purpose of the Disengagement Plan is to reduce terror as much as possible and grant Israeli citizens the maximum level of security. The process of disengagement will lead to an improvement in the quality of life and will help strengthen the Israeli economy. The unilateral steps which Israel will take in the framework of the Disengagement Plan will be fully coordinated with the United States.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRecent  \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various aerials of West Bank separation fence \u003cbr/\u003eHerzliya, Israel - 18 December 2003\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew): Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Disengagement Plan is meant to grant maximum security and minimise friction between the Israelis and Palestinians. We are interested in\u003cbr/\u003econducting direct negotiations but do not intend to hold Israeli society hostage in the hands of the Palestinians. I have already said - we will\u003cbr/\u003enot wait indefinitely.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew): Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The State of Israel is governed by law and the issue of outposts is no exception. I understand the sensitivity - we will try to do this in the\u003cbr/\u003eleast painful way possible but the unauthorised outposts will be dismantled. Period. Israel will meet all its obligations with regard to construction in the settlements. There will be no construction beyond the existing construction line, no expropriation of land for construction, no special\u003cbr/\u003eeconomic incentives and no construction of new settlements. \"\u003cbr/\u003eMigron, north of Jerusalem, West Bank - 18 December, 2003\u003cbr/\u003e8. Settlements with Israeli flags flying\u003cbr/\u003ePrime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish a makeshift border, including relocating Jewish settlements, if Palestinians do not live up to their obligations under a stalled peace plan.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael would also speed up construction of a contentious security barrier that dips deep into the West Bank and would use it as part of new security\u003cbr/\u003elines with the Palestinians intended to make it easier for Israel to defend itself, he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This reduction of friction will require the extremely difficult step of changing the deployment of some of the settlements,\" he said, without naming\u003cbr/\u003ethe settlements that would be moved.\u003cbr/\u003eSharon's declaration came as his government faced intense pressure to take action to end three years of violence with the Palestinians that has left\u003cbr/\u003emany Israelis living in fear and has badly damaged the economy. His popularity has plummeted in recent months.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinians and international mediators oppose any unilateral actions, saying that only a negotiated agreement with the Palestinians can end the\u003cbr/\u003eviolence and lead to peace.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinians reacted with anger to Sharon's speech.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is not a prescription for peace, this is a prescription for more war and more attacks and more isolation and more segregation against the\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinian people,\" Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said.\u003cbr/\u003eHawkish members of Sharon's government also opposed his plan, and pledged to fight any pullback from West Bank settlements.\u003cbr/\u003eSharon, the architect of Israel's settlement policy, also came under criticism from the West Bank settlers, who said his plan was a \"plan of\u003cbr/\u003eillusions that will escalate terror.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSharon told a security conference in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya that Israel remained committed to the 'road map', but wanted Palestinians to began dismantling militant groups as required under the peace plan.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are interested in conducting direct negotiations, but do not intend to hold Israeli society hostage in the hands of the Palestinians. ... We will\u003cbr/\u003enot wait for them indefinitely,\" Sharon said. \"If there is no progress toward peace in a matter of months, \"then Israel will initiate the unilateral security step of disengagement from the Palestinians,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe speech comes after weeks of buildup. Sharon began speaking of undefined \"unilateral steps\" last month, indicating that he might consider\u003cbr/\u003emoving West Bank Jewish settlements while seizing control of large areas of the West Bank.\u003cbr/\u003eMuch criticism of potential unilateral steps focused on the security barrier under construction. Sharon has said the barrier is meant to keep Palestinian attackers away. But Palestinians say the partially constructed structure amounts to a land grab.\u003cbr/\u003eSharon said Thursday construction of the barrier will be accelerated and it, along with the deployment of forces and other physical obstacles will\u003cbr/\u003eprovide security for Israelis. Palestinian and US officials have called on Israel to stick to the 'road map'.\u003cbr/\u003eThe plan envisions an independent Palestinian state by 2005. In the interim, it requires Israel to freeze settlement activity in the West Bank\u003cbr/\u003eand Gaza Strip, and calls on the Palestinians to dismantle militant groups - steps neither side has taken.\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael has some 150 settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, with about 220,000 Jewish settlers. Settlers have also established many tiny\u003cbr/\u003eunauthorized outposts in the West Bank in recent years. Roughly 3.5 million Palestinians live in the occupied areas, which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.\u003cbr/\u003eSome senior members within Sharon's own Likud Party, including Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, say a one-sided pullback would invite more violence.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, settlers at the outpost of Migron, north of Jerusalem, welded trailers together and blocked roads on Wednesday ahead of an anticipated army move to evacuate the outpost, where 43 families live. 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