WHAT BUSH GOT RIGHT

Israeli sources: IDF pullout in Gaza could begin Monday (Aluf Benn, Amos Harel, Nathan Guttman and Arnon Regular, 28/06/2003, Haaretz)

Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached an agreement Friday for an IDF pullback in the Gaza Strip and a transferal of security control to the Palestinians, during a meeting between Palestinian Minister for Security Mohammed Dahlan and Israel's coordinator in the territories, Major General Amos Gilad.

No agreement was reached on a transfer of security control in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, but talks on the matter will take place in the coming week.

Officers in the field from both sides will meet Sunday to finalize details and the pullout from Gaza is estimated to begin as soon as Monday, sources in Jerusalem said.

If we concede that opponents of the war were right and neither Saddam Hussein nor WMD existed in Iraq, will they concede that the administration was right and that winning the war has completely changed the dynamics of the Middle East in our favor? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 27, 2003 7:59 PM