IN THE TWO years leading to the elections for the 17th Knesset, there was much talk of a “big bang” that would transform political life in Israel. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for unilateral disengagement was causing major tremors. In…
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Can’t Get Enough of Sharon
NOW that the fog has lifted from the disengagement plan in Gaza, the question remains, “Is this what the Left had in mind when it ceased to fear Sharon and began loving ‘Arik’?” Welcome to Gaza Prison. No one enters…
Two Angles on Disengagement
1. The Disaster of Others THE SIX-DAY Tearjerker: that is one way to look at Israel’s evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip and 4 more in the northern West Bank, mid-August 2005. The event turned out to be…