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How Israel’s West Bank security realities are reshaping the two-state debate

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The Israel Defense Forces conducted approximately 80 brigade-level counterterrorism operations over the past year in the West Bank — known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria — neutralizing hundreds of terrorists and seizing more than 1,300 weapons, according to data released by the military.

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The IDF said overall Palestinian terrorist activity in the area declined sharply in 2025, with incidents down 78% compared to the previous year. Attacks involving firearms dropped by 86%, the data showed.

Security remains essential in Israel’s ancient heartland, home to more than 500,000 Jews and up to 3 million Palestinians, and is at the center of intense political and diplomatic debate. Many Israeli officials argue that Jerusalem must assert sovereignty over the territory. 

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A view showing the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria. Evangelical Christian leaders are pushing the Trump administration to recognize Israel’s right to the biblical heartland. (TPS-IL)

Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, brokered during the Clinton administration, the West Bank was divided into three areas: Area A, under full Palestinian control; Area B, under Palestinian civil authority and Israeli security control; and Area C, under full Israeli authority.

A 2020 plan by the Trump administration, known as «Peace to Prosperity,» envisioned Israeli annexation of parts of Judea and Samaria but was shelved in favor of the Abraham Accords, which normalized Israel’s relations with four Arab countries. In July 2024, the Knesset plenum overwhelmingly rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state, and in July 2025, approved a declaration calling on the government to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria as well as the Jordan Valley, something Vice President JD Vance described as a «very stupid political stunt,» when asked his thoughts on the vote.

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On a visit to Israel, he said, «The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel… The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. That will continue to be our policy. And if people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that, but we certainly weren’t happy about it.»

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Why Israel Says It Can’t Give Up Judea and Samaria

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A Palestinian man throws a stone at an Israeli armed vehicle during a protest in the town of Beita, in the West Bank on July 26, 2024. ( Wahaj Bani Moufleh /Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Focusing on the national security significance of the area, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus, a former IDF international spokesperson and now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that fundamental principles of warfare apply to the area.

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«High ground, or elevated terrain, remains critical and extremely important in defending a country, its people and its sovereignty,» Conricus said. «I cannot identify any credible professional military assessment that would suggest it is wise for Israel to allow a hostile entity to dominate high terrain that controls, by line of sight and fire, most of modern Israel west of the 1949 armistice line, where 80% of Israel’s GDP and 70% of its population reside.»

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Conricus said that no Israeli government could relinquish military control over the area without endangering the most basic security of the State of Israel.

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He emphasized that the area defines Israel’s eastern border and noted that, while Israel currently maintains strategic peace with Jordan, the kingdom remains unstable and vulnerable to both internal and external pressures.

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The Jewish settlement of Har Bracha is located in the biblical heartland of Samaria on the West Bank. (Eytan Schweber/TPS)

«It could be jihadist elements, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas or the Iranian regime,» he said. «Israel has to have an eastern border that is a natural barrier. The Jordan River is a natural barrier that limits the movement of troops, tanks and vehicles, and provides a border that is defensible,» he said.

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Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, pointed to the concept of defensible borders that emerged after the 1967 Six-Day War.

«As a result, Israel gained a major defensive position and strategic depth it had never previously possessed,» Diker said, noting that Israel had been only nine miles wide at its narrowest point in the north.

After the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Diker said its strategic importance has increased amid concerns that a similar large-scale attack could occur there, given the widespread flow of weapons.

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«Although we control between 60% and 75% of the region, Iran has been penetrating the Jordanian border,» he said, adding that Hamas incitement has energized jihadist networks.

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Yishai Fleisher, international spokesman for Hebron — the cradle of Jewish civilization located in Judea — told Fox News Digital that the vast majority of events described in the Bible took place in Judea and Samaria.

Hebron, he said, is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, while Jerusalem is where the two Jewish Temples stood and where King David reigned. In Bet El, the Biblical account of Jacob’s dream of the ladder took place.

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Visitors arrive at Sebastia National Park in Samaria. Sebastia was the Israelite kingdom during the reigns of Omri and Ahab. (Hillel Maeir/TPS-IL)

«The reason we have national aspirations in the Land of Israel is because of our history,» Fleisher said. He also cited an initiative to rename Route 60 — which runs through many Biblical cities — the «Biblical Highway.»

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Earlier this month, IDF troops were dispatched to the Shavei Shomron Junction following reports that dozens of masked Israeli suspects had vandalized property in the area. Several Palestinian vehicles were torched, and two Palestinians were injured. A day later, IDF troops were dispatched to the area of Jalud following reports that Israeli civilians had vandalized a local school. In a separate incident in the Bizzariya area, several Palestinian vehicles were set on fire and property was damaged.

In 2025, the IDF recorded an increase of approximately 27% in anti-Palestinian crimes.

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Governor of Binyamin and Chairman of the Yesha Council Yisrael Ganz told Fox News Digital that Judea and Samaria has been in a state of war since Oct. 7. Over the past year, he said, citing Shin Bet data, there were more than 4,000 attempted attacks against Israelis.

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Hilltop Youth run for cover as they clash with Israeli security forces evacuating and demolishing an illegal outpost built near the Jewish settlement of Metzad east of the Palestinian city of Sa’ir in the West Bank, on Nov. 17, 2025. Israeli security forces evacuated and demolished an illegal settler outpost in the occupied West Bank on Nov. 17, with the authorities citing «severe incidents of violence.» (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

Ganz cited former Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen, who said only 1.5% of Shin Bet cases involve Jews, while roughly 80% focus on Arab terrorism.

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«Yes, there are incidents of violence, but the number of Jews who attack Arabs is negligible,» Ganz said, condemning extremist youth as a small and unrepresentative minority.

Ganz argued that the absence of Israeli sovereignty creates a legal gray zone that enables extremism.

«When there is governance, security and economic opportunity, there is no room for anarchy or violence,» he said, envisioning Judea and Samaria as «the Israeli Tuscany.»

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Is the Two-State Solution Still Viable — or Just Diplomatic Habit?

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Fox News Digital that the two-state solution was never viable but rather a diplomatic reflex.

«The Palestinians hold the world record for a people who have been offered a two-state solution and have rejected it,» Oren said. «They rejected it in 1937, the British offer in 1947, the American-Israeli offer in 2001, and the subsequent offer in 2008.»

According to polls, Oren said, most Palestinians oppose a two-state solution and support the Oct. 7 attacks.

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«Rather, the two-state solution is viewed as an interim stage toward a one-state solution,» he said, a phrase often used as a euphemism for the eventual destruction of Israel through demographic change.

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Palestinian terrorists from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades appear carrying their weapons during a military parade in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. ((Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images))

While acknowledging Palestinian self-rule in Areas A and B, Oren said a fully sovereign Palestinian state is impossible.

«It could not have control over its borders, nor control over strategic affairs, such as entering a defense pact with Iran. It will never be a classic sovereign state, but it could be more than what they have today,» he said.

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While a two-state solution once seemed inevitable, Dan Shapiro — who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama and as deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Middle East under President Joe Biden — told Fox News Digital that it has not been viable for many years and may now be harder to envision than ever, particularly in the aftermath of Oct. 7.

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Still, Shapiro said, the framework remains a fixture of Middle East diplomacy due to the lack of viable alternatives for resolving the conflict between two peoples living in one land, each with legitimate claims to a homeland.

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«President Trump includes a credible pathway to a Palestinian state in his 20-point plan to stabilize Gaza and remove Hamas from power. Presidents Biden and Trump have both viewed progress toward a Palestinian state as part of the formula to achieve Saudi normalization with Israel,» Shapiro said.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to deliver remarks to the Knesset on Oct. 13, 2025 in Jerusalem. President Trump is visiting the country hours after Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7, 2023, part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza. (Photo by Kenny Holston – Pool/Getty Images)

«None of this means it can happen soon, or perhaps at all. If it ever does, it will take longer and look different from earlier efforts. It is not a copy-and-paste of ideas from the Oslo era. But that credible pathway to a Palestinian state — one that would live peacefully alongside a secure Israel — difficult as it is, remains relevant,» he added.

Shapiro noted that even Israel’s current government — the most right-wing in the country’s history and one that includes multiple proponents of annexation — has stopped short of applying sovereignty across the West Bank, a sign, he said, that the political and diplomatic costs remain too high.

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«President Trump has announced that it will not happen because he promised Arab states — the same ones he does business with and relies on to help stabilize Gaza — that it will not happen, and Netanyahu will not oppose him on it,» Shapiro said.

Shapiro said that preserving the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state on some portion of the territory — even if it appears distant and would require major changes in Palestinian leadership and society — has remained relevant, even under Israeli governments that profess to oppose any two-state outcome. 

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Lethal elite ‘black-clad’ kill squad guards Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei

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An elite counterterrorism unit has been deployed to protect Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, following the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Fox News Digital has learned.

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The force, known as NOPO — Iran’s black-clad Counterterrorism Special Force — was assigned to safeguard the leader after a U.S.-Israel strike on a Tehran compound on Feb. 28 killed the elder Khamenei amid the start of Operation Epic Fury.

«With Khamenei gone, NOPO will likely now be protecting Mojtaba Khamenei,» Ali Safavi, an official with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI said.

The NOPO force, formed in 1991, had the 28th Ruhollah (Khomeini’s first name) Division as its «nucleus», according to Safavi, and typically handles hostage rescue operations. «Its task was not to protect Khamenei,» he added.

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Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei receives protection from elite NOPO force following his father’s assassination in U.S.-Israel attack on Tehran compound Feb. 28. ( Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The history of the unit also includes deployments against internal security threats, and it has often been called on to suppress protests.

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Iran’s Assembly of Experts elected Mojtaba Khamenei on March 8, 2026, elevating him as the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.

His succession comes amid ongoing war with the U.S. and Israel, but so far, Mojtaba Khamenei has not been heard from since the start of the conflict.

According to The Times of Israel, Iranian state television reported that Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded in the war, with the reports yet unconfirmed.

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«NOPO is the Farsi acronym for Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, which translates into the Special Force to Protect the Supreme Leader,» Safavi further explained before clarifying that «Velayat is not necessarily the supreme leader, but the entirety of the regime.»

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Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is seen in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 14, 2016.  (Reza B / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Over time, NOPO has evolved into a highly specialized unit distinct from the broader Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military branch established in 1979 to defend the Islamic Republic and its leadership from internal and external threats.

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«The NOPO is composed of six brigades only. Four are stationed in Tehran, one in Mashhad and one in Isfahan,» Safavi said.

«They are far more lethal, ruthless and well-trained than the IRGC,» he claimed before describing how the brigade’s loyalty was to the Supreme Leader.

«This force was used for the protection of Khamenei,» Safavi continued. «They are very well-equipped. Khamenei did not trust any other security force for his protection.»

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Safavi also said some members of the unit were likely killed in Ali Khamenei’s assassination but that the force remains fully operational.

«Some of the NOPO could have been killed when Khamenei was killed, but the fact is that they are now involved in the suppressive and security measures the regime has also undertaken in recent days to prevent any outbreak of protests,» Safavi said.

The elite force’s activities extend beyond personal protection in times of crisis, Safavi added.

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In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, tear gas is fired during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.  (UGC via AP)

«But in times of crisis, such as what happened during the January uprising, they were heavily involved in opening fire on the protesters,» he said.

This comes amid reports that hundreds of NOPO members have also been widely deployed around prisons in Iran that are holding political detainees.

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«Hundreds of suppressive forces are widely deployed around the prison. In Ghezel Hesar Prison,» the NCRI said in a statement.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, following the bombing of a military center near Mahabad Prison, prisoners whose ward doors had been locked protested and set fire to their blankets, demanding their release under wartime conditions.

«Suppressive forces responded by firing tear gas into the ward,» the NCRI reported.

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Reports also indicated NOPO had taken control of Evin Prison in Tehran following the flight of regular prison officials amid intensified conflict.

In 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on NOPO for its part in committing «serious human rights abuses against persons in Iran or Iranian citizens or residents, or the family members of the foregoing.»

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Minnesota Dem suggests studying ‘benefit of shoplifting’ in committee clash, then says it was sarcasm

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A Minnesota Democrat whose retort to a Republican about potential «benefit[s] of shoplifting» during a hearing on worker misclassification defended the exchange as sarcasm gone awry.

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During a Minnesota House Workforce and Labor Committee hearing this week, lawmakers reviewed information on how laws governing employee and independent contractor classifications affect insurance payments and other benefits, according to local reports.

State Rep. Dave Pinto, D-St. Paul, responded after a Republican lawmaker voiced concern that worker misclassification ultimately falls on the taxpayer.

«It is an intriguing line of questions,» Pinto said, appearing to suggest a study on the «benefit of shoplifting and retail theft.»

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Pinto spoke of a recent presentation before another committee he sits on that sought to address solutions to organized retail theft.

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«And it actually had not occurred to me to ask — it probably would have been good — to make sure that they would study sort of the benefit of shoplifting, of retail theft since because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of using that maybe it’s you know assisting them in some way,» he said.

Pinto went on to describe whether people involved in such activities are considered to be violating the law, and that there may be a policy question at the root of such a discussion.

In comments to Fox News Digital, Pinto defended the remarks, saying he was reacting sarcastically to Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Mille Lacs, who had posed the original question.

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«My comments, intended to be sarcastic, followed a line of questioning from Republican Rep. Isaac Schultz suggesting a study is needed on whether the illegal practice of worker misclassification harms consumers,» Pinto said.

«As a prosecutor, of course I take retail theft and shoplifting seriously. Any insinuation to the contrary is absurd — just like Rep. Schultz’s remarks were.»

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Nonetheless, Pinto’s original comment was viewed thousands of times on social media and elicited responses from other lawmakers, amid ongoing scrutiny over social services fraud and other scandals in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

State Rep. Krista Knudsen, R-Lake Shore, was rendered speechless in a video response to the matter, as she put her hands to her face.

«There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else to say,» Knudsen said. «I’m shocked, actually. I don’t even know what to say. Who — I don’t know what to say — Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals.»

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State Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican from the Minneapolis area, appeared to cite her region’s nationally recognized scandals, saying she cannot believe the comment was made by Pinto.

«[W]e are trying to prevent fraud and prevent crime in Minnesota and this has been an issue that we’ve dealt with as a legislature for many years. We finally got the organized retail theft crime in statute last session,» she said.

«It’s been a long haul and that’s a tool that we need to crack down on this real problem throughout our communities around the state.»

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Worker misclassification has been a focus of Democrat-Farmer-Labor lawmakers in the state legislature for some time, as an effort began in 2024 to ban employers from misclassifying employees.

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That policy was reportedly spurred by a construction worker who testified before lawmakers that he racked up major medical bills after a work-related injury, but his employer later only offered him a small amount for expenses and «told him to forget about insurance and to change his name and address, saying the bills would eventually disappear if nobody paid them,» according to a post on the House of Representatives website.

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The man later allegedly found out his employer was misclassifying employees in order to save on labor costs, according to the lawmakers’ page.

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State Rep. Emma Greenman, D-Minneapolis, authored HF4444 to ensure businesses don’t act in such a way in the future and/or misclassify employees as contractors or the like.

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«Our job is to ensure that Minnesota workers have the protections that we in law provide,» she said at the time.

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La candidata presidencial del partido Centro Democrático, Paloma Valencia, habla después de ganar la consulta de la derecha, en Bogotá, Colombia, 8 de marzo , 2026. REUTERS/Luisa González

De todas partes del mundo me escriben sobre las elecciones en Colombia del fin de semana pasado. ¿Qué pasó? ¿Para dónde va Colombia? ¿Y a la derecha y al centro derecha cómo le fue? La respuesta: bien y mal.

Mal, porque los resultados mostraron que Colombia sigue en un inmenso riesgo de avanzar por el camino populista, pues esa izquierda se fortaleció en el Congreso y mostró que Iván Cepeda es un candidato muy fuerte y sin rival en ese espectro político, lo que no sucede ni con el centro ni con la derecha. Bien, porque la Gran Consulta del centro y la centro derecha se convirtió, por un lado, en la más votada de la historia, con 5.8 millones de votos, y mostró el camino para derrotar a la izquierda radical: unirse y atraer al centro es la consigna para la primera vuelta presidencial.

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¿Entonces? Lo primero es que aquello que querían Gustavo Petro, Iván Cepeda y Abelardo de la Espriella, no tener competencia en mayo, en la primera vuelta presidencial, no se les dio. Paloma Valencia, con esos millones de votos de la consulta, se confirmó como una rival muy fuerte para los dos candidatos radicales, e incluso la posibilidad de que ella, como la candidata del centro y la derecha, llegue a la segunda vuelta es alta, si hace las cosas bien en estos meses de campaña.

Paloma Valencia, con esos millones
Paloma Valencia, con esos millones de votos de la consulta, se confirmó como una rival muy fuerte para los dos candidatos radicales- crédito Paloma Valencia

¿Qué es hacer las cosas bien? Por un lado, hay que cultivar el centro, para mantener esos votos y, además, hacerlos crecer en las zonas donde se puede y con los sectores sociales, en especial los jóvenes urbanos, a los que no les llegamos y que Juan Daniel Oviedo logró encantar. No podemos esperar un segundo para comenzar a entender a ese joven urbano al que Oviedo le habló, para ampliarnos en esa base, y debemos enfocar los esfuerzos principalmente en Bogotá.

Paloma debe dejar el discurso tradicional del uribismo y empezar a leer mejor este momento del país. No quiere decir, de ninguna manera, que se olvide de los temas de seguridad y otros que hacen parte de su agenda, pero sí que entienda que el discurso anticomunista tradicional ya no mueve a nadie, o a los que mueve ya los movió. Ojalá Oviedo y Paloma entiendan lo que está en juego, y logren un buen entendimiento para que, por un lado, nos salvemos de las garras del populismo y, por el otro, se hagan las muchas reformas que necesita el país.

Iván Cepeda, sin duda, sigue muy pero muy fuerte. ¿Podrá arrancar más votos de los que ya tiene en el centro? Depende de Claudia López, quien ya dejó en claro que quiere llegar allá, de Sergio Fajardo y de todos los candidatos de la Gran Consulta. Pronto vamos a ver en las nuevas encuestas, que quedaron todas muy mal paradas, aunque unas peor que otras, qué tanto los resultados del domingo cambiaron el escenario político.

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Obvio, hay que mirar esos datos con pinzas y tener en cuenta que no van a incluir las fórmulas a la Vicepresidencia de los candidatos, que también marcan algo de diferencia. ¿Qué pasa si en esas encuestas Paloma pasa a tener entre el 15 y el 20 por ciento? ¿O si tiene alrededor del 10?

Ya veremos cómo lo que sucedió en estas consultas cambió o no el panorama político y si generó una competencia más abierta y con mayores posibilidades para que el centro sea definitivo en la decisión presidencial. Por ahora, se abre una esperanza de que la polarización es evitable y que la centro derecha puede jugar un papel realista en las elecciones de mayo.

Otra cosa es lo que pasó con el voto para el Congreso, en el cual, sin duda, el Pacto Histórico mostró fuerza y disciplina; no nos digamos mentiras, ya es la primera fuerza política del país. Lo grave, es que, si sumamos los congresistas de otros partidos que se van a vender, pueden tener más de la mitad del congreso, y eso quiere decir que si gana Cepeda vamos a tener Constituyente, leyes que destruyan de manera definitiva el sistema de salud y unos impuestos que acaben con el sector privado.

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El Centro Democrático subió, pero, la verdad, su lista al Senado dejó mucho que desear. No hubo una figura nueva que moviera ese grupo, distinta a Álvaro Uribe.

El Centro Democrático subió, pero, la verdad, su lista al Senado dejó mucho que desear. No hubo una figura nueva que moviera ese grupo, distinta a Álvaro Uribe. Muchos llegaron en coche y, si bien pueden ser buenos senadores, nunca van a tener su propio escenario político. El 90 por ciento de los senadores electos por el centro democrático, no lo hubieran sido sin Uribe.

Es hora de crear un partido que no sea Uribe dependiente, y en estos dificilísimos cuatro años, convertir al CD en ese partido va a ser un reto gigante. Lo que queda claro es que si no se hace, el Centro Democrático desaparece y ante la fortaleza de la izquierda no hay contrapeso alguno. La responsabilidad histórica en ese sentido es enorme.

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Comienza la recta final. El futuro de Colombia está en juego y Paloma se montó en la elección presidencial. Unidos en la segunda vuelta podemos evitar la catástrofe. Ese debe ser el objetivo de todos. ¿Seremos tan responsables? Ojalá la sensatez prevalezca sobre el ego.



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