Editing The Disengagement Plan (section)

== Background to the Plan ==
In 5763 (2003), Ariel Sharon was elected to lead the Likud party, which presented a clear right-wing platform during the elections, with strong opposition to territorial concessions, and Sharon's explicit promise not to evacuate any settlement, declaring "the law of Netzarim is like the law of Tel Aviv."

Nevertheless, after his election, there was a radical change in his positions, and following a police investigation opened against him, he presented the Disengagement Plan in the Knesset, which shocked all his associates and party members, as it contradicted the party platform and Sharon's own political life, as he had personally assisted in establishing these settlements.

Following the announcement of the Disengagement Plan, the media and police ceased their intensive focus on the investigation file and began praising Sharon's actions to promote 'peace.'

To advance the plan and pass it in the Knesset, Sharon pressured government ministers and fired from ministerial positions anyone who opposed implementing the plan.

With the plan's publication and the beginning of the wave of protests, Sharon promised to bring the plan to a referendum, but after failing to gather a majority for his plan in a referendum, he decided to ignore the people's decision and continued to advance the plan's implementation while trampling all rules of political fairness and acting as a dictator imposing his political views and diplomatic plans on the public.