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...crew of Palestinian laborers chops the long green stems from Michael Goldschmidt's amaryllis bulbs in his stuffy hothouse. Goldschmidt, 57, sells the bulbs, grown in the Ganei Tal settlement in the Gaza Strip's Gush Katif bloc, for a dollar. After export to the U.S., the plants go for almost $70. With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza set for next month, Goldschmidt is taking as many of his 300,000 bulbs out of the ground as he can, in spite of his desire to stay in the place he's lived for 28 years. ?I absolutely...
...Goldschmidt's pragmatism is far more representative of the views of the almost 10,000 residents of Israel's 21 Gaza settlements than the headline grabbing protests of a few. Like many others, he is reluctantly making a compensation deal with the government. Indeed, government officials tell Time the turning point may have been a series of clashes earlier this month that convinced many settlers that resisting the pullout would inevitably lead to violence. ?I don't like to admit it, but it's clear that Sharon is going to destroy this place,? says Debi Rosen, who works...
...Still, the leaders of the settler movement haven't given up. They planned a massive protest march this week from Israel to Gaza. Sharon last week ordered the army to shut the entry checkpoint to Gaza to prevent protesters secreting themselves in the settlements in advance of the pullout. And by Monday, when the march began, police had already banned it, although settler leaders vowed to press ahead...
...make something of themselves. I reminded her that several of the 9/11 hijackers came from wealthy families, and it's not as if they left the boys out of the will. Finally, I told her about my conversation three years ago with the political leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. "What's the difference between suicide, which the Koran condemns, and martyrdom?" I asked. "Suicide," he replied, "is done out of despair. But remember: most of our martyrs today were very successful in their earthly lives." In short, there was a future to live for--and they detonated it anyway...
...travel to Israel a lot and Tel Aviv is a much safer city all things considered than New York,” Dershowitz said. “And yet the State Department issues a caution for the whole of Israel, which includes Gaza and the West Bank, which conveys a very false message about the safety at Tel Aviv University...