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Your report captured both sides of the controversy over the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and provided details about what the settlers are going through [Aug. 22]. I am a supporter of Gaza disengagement and find it difficult to believe the settlers did not realize they were on borrowed time from the minute they began living on occupied land after the 1967 war. For a true peace, Israel and its settlers must realize that a Palestinian nation has to be created. The sad part is that Jews and Arabs had lived together in the region peacefully for centuries...
Your article about Gaza portrayed a rosy image of Zionism. That picture, however, is painted with the blood and tears of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, people who were forcibly evicted from their homes by Zionist settlers. You should have had more balanced reporting...
...Sharon's prepared to hold talks here and there, but the essence of his plan is seen as being based on further unilateral steps. Gaza was a unilateral withdrawal and, in so far as it was less troublesome for Israeli society than many feared, it went well. In an Israeli television interview this week, Sharon said other settlements would have to go in the end, but nothing on the scale of Gaza. Ultimately it looks like he's certainly thinking of his West Bank fence, which isn't finished yet, as the border that he'll create unilaterally, along with...
...What's happening on the Palestinian side in Gaza? On early indications, is it possible to say whether Hamas or Fatah has gained more ground out of Israel's departure...
...same Palestinians as evidence that negotiations by the Palestinian Authority don't get such good results as Hamas's violence. Now, leaders of Hamas's military wing say they'll chase the Israelis out of the West Bank in the end, the same way they pushed them out of Gaza...