Sunday, February 22, 2009

Peres: I was wrong about disengagement - JPost.com

Feb 18, 2009 13:00 | Updated Feb 19, 2009 1:07
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS

President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that he erred in supporting Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

"What will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the wrongs we did in leaving Gaza," Peres said in a question and answer session with a group of American Jewish leaders. "It should have been done otherwise. I was for leaving Gaza. I feel myself as one of the persons mistaken." (read full article)