On the anniversary of the disengagement
Some of the Israeli Livebloggers have reflections on what took place a year ago today.
Greetings from the French Hill has this:
Sharon told us all that after we left Gaza, if ONE Kassam rocket was launched into Israel, Israel would be in an excellent military position to fight and defeat the terrorists, it would be considered and act of war, and Israel would have the moral high-ground to fight back. Well, one year and over 1,000 Kassam rockets later, those promises have rung hollow in Israel’s ears. We never attacked after the first rocket fell in Sderot mere days after Israel completed the withdrawal on September 12th. Instead, we created some useless “buffer zone.” Since our lack of resolve, Palestinian terrorist groups have launched rockets into Israel with abandon, and it has only intensified their resolve to fight us. The only attack against these groups started after Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. In my mind, too little too late. If we had done what had been promised to us, it is possible that Hamas wouldn’t have been elected into government. Has the Disengagement worked? Absolutely, unequivicably NO!
Comparison of then and now from Boker Tov, Boulder:
100 percent of the Gaza Strip was evacuated and handed over to the Palestinians. One year later: More than 500 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza.
And according to West Bank Mamma, some Israeli politicos appear to be reconsidering plans for West Bank withdrawal:
The Kadima party has had a real brainstorm. They realize that they have to find a new agenda - as they acknowledge the obvious, and admit that they have to scrap their plan to withdraw from the westbank.
related articles
- Six Years Later: War, Not Tragedy (September 11th, 2007)
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- Fifteen Years Years Ago, Today (July 10th, 2007)
- Happy Fourth of July (July 4th, 2007)
- Five Years Later: Americans Trapped in Saudi Arabia (June 27th, 2007)
