Several Jewish nationalist groups have come together to sponsor a massive PR campaign calling to return to Jewish towns in Gaza. “There is a solution: Going back to Gush Katif,” the campaign's posters say.

Advertisements bearing the slogan have been placed on 1,500 buses, and soon will go up on billboards throughout the country.

Shai Gefen of SOS-Israel, one of the groups behind the initiative, explained that the goal is to change the public way of thinking about Gaza. The campaign aims to convince Israelis that only a permanent return to Gaza will permanently solve the problem of Gaza terrorism.

A group of former Gush Katif residents is prepared to return to Gaza, SOS-Israel activists said. The group will meet on Sunday in the Gush Katif museum in Jerusalem to formally announce their intention to return to their former homes.

Former residents of Gaza began organizing a group of those ready to return four months ago, three years after they were expelled from Gaza under the 2005 Disengagement plan. The group styled itself after the “Homesh First” group, which seeks a return to the northern Samaria town of Homesh, from which Jews were expelled under the Disengagement plan.

Homesh First spokesman Yossi Dagan recently explained the initiative in light of the ongoing Operation Cast Lead military action in Gaza. “These days we're getting a dramatic illustration of what was already known, that the uprooting-Disengagement that was termed 'a national mission' was a national disaster of enormous proportions,” he said.

Despite fully withdrawing from Gaza, Israel does not have quiet and is still involved in Gaza's problems, Dagan said. “The process cost Israel a captive soldier, Gilad Shalit, dozens killed, a cost approaching NIS 20 billion, a rend in the social fabric...” he explained. “We must at the very least go back to what we used to have, to take over Gaza and clean out the nests of terror."