After his boss Peres surprisingly changed his support for Gaza disengagement, in an interview with RTVi Beilin asserted that he pleaded with Sharon against it.
According to Beilin, as a leftist he had to welcome the disengagement but argued against it privately because it would leave Gaza to Hamas. Beilin suggested delivering Gaza to Fatah, but Sharon saw no difference between the two terrorist organizations.
Only after Arafat’s alleged assassination did Beilin succeed in installing Abbas, the “moderate.”
