” “At less than twenty days from the Israeli elections, the programs of the candidate parties are beginning to take shape. The goal of Kadima, the new party founded by Sharon and now led by Ehud Olmert, is to have final boundaries with the Palestinian Authority by 2010. The program also includes pull-outs from the more secluded colonies and the erection of new apartments. "These are not comnpletely new proposals said to SIR the custodian to the Holy Land, father Pierbattista Pizzaballa -. Kadima is a centrist, moderate party, which wants to reach a final solution with Palestinians. Of course, at this time, just before the elections, they cannot show any opening to dialogue with a Hamas-led Palestine. But here, in the Middle East, we are used to unexpected turns of events, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were in the future". In the meantime, many pre-election polls are being carried out, which credit to Kadima 37-38 seats, against 19-20 of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Labour Party. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has not taken long to reply from his house in Damascus, defining Olmert’s proposals "not a peace plan but a declaration of war, which will let Israel stay in most of Cis-Jordan, keep the wall and refuse any concession on East Jerusalem".” “
