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...settlers will be leaving, involuntarily, this summer. The Israeli government has decided to yank them. That is progress, but movement of any sort in the Israeli-Arab dispute has proved potentially disastrous in the past. Indeed, several prominent U.S. diplomats told me last week that Gaza disengagement is-for the moment, at least-causing them more concern than the pacification of Iraq. That is progress of a sort too. For one thing, it's an implicit sign that things are going better in Baghdad, where the new, democratic, Shi'ite-led government was installed last week. But it is also...
...edge of a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. The Palm Beach Hotel-the name seemed hilarious-was besieged by a serious fence topped with thick rolls of concertina wire and guarded by Israeli troops in blockhouses. There didn't seem to be many guests. Who on earth would choose to spend a holiday there? I had similar feelings about the Israeli settlers who lived nearby: Why on earth were they doing this? There was a cockeyed rationale for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank: Judea and Samaria were the heart of ancient Israel, and a modern Jewish presence...
...there was no historical or security rationale for the Gaza settlements. There were merely 8,000 Jews, fanatics by definition, plopped down amid 1.4 million Arabs, a ridiculously provocative Israeli thumb in the eye of the Palestinians. "This is an ideological hotel," the manager of the Palm Beach told a British newspaper, the Independent, a few years ago. "It is here because this is our land, and we have to keep...
Elkayali also spoke of his estrangement from his father, who he said was not allowed to return to his home in Gaza after leaving when Elkayali was a young...
...speakers’ presentation was followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer session, in which the panelists addressed issues about inaccuracies in media portrayals and the proposed pullout in the Gaza Strip this summer...