Gaza withdrawal
It does not matter what your political views are, the scenes of the young settlers fighting their evacuation from Gaza are sad and moving.
These people have been used by politicians and found themselves overtaken by history. We have seen it before, in Kenya, in Rhodesia; people encouraged by their government to emigrate and settle new lands, made to feel like pioneers, and working hard to create their little paradise out of nothing.
The price Sharon is paying is high, but it will expose the international pretense that once Israel withdraws from Gaza a viable Palestinian state would arise from the ashes. Nobody, of course, really believes this; in fact they are all afraid of the possible outcomes, and that is why the situation has been allowed to drag on for years. Egypt will now have to take over from IDF and, at last, take responsibility for the Gaza strip. We shall see how they like it and how much they will enjoy a fundamentalist state at their border.
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