Moshe Karadi, who was Police Commissioner during the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005, said in a holiday interview that the police's ability to fight organized crime was impaired by the expulsion, or "Disengagement." The Disengagement took six days but "we worked on it for an entire year," he says. "The Disengagement is my answer to all those who ask why the police can't defeat organized crime," he said.
Karadi also confirmed suspicions that were often voiced in the national camp when he explained that the cooperation of Jewish community leaders made it possible to carry out the expulsion smoothly.
"We could not have reached those results [completion of the expulsion in six days – ed.] withou
"In some cases we let them carry out actions like blocking a road, out of the understanding that they need to express protest."
t developing a relationship between our leaders and theirs," Karadi told Z'man Mekomi.
"I think the settler leaders deserve a lot of appreciation," he added. "Besides the formal discussions that were held between the top echelons of the security forces and the settler leaders, there were informal meetings between me and the local leadership. In some cases we let them carry out actions like blocking a road, out of the understanding that they need to express protest," he said.
"Never has a police force received the task of expelling citizens from its own nation, which the government sent to live there [sic]," he added.