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AddReply(363703,"Gush Katif","David A Weitzler","Framingham, MA","11/20/08","Who ever imagined that Gaza and Gush Katif would end up anywhere but in Palestinian hands: dreamers who are not part of our world. They seem to walk amongst us but, in fact, they are living 3,000 years ago, drinking water that has never known a baptism.\n\nYes, relinquishing Gush Katif has and will do nothing for peace, but nor did the building of Gush Katif in the first place. Among those who mess with peace, the prior messers cleans up the mess.");
AddReply(363411,"Tayar: Israel eyeless near Gaza ","Aubrey Wulfsohn","Leamington spa","11/20/08","I have no sympathy at all for the settlers in Sderoth and Ashkelon");
AddReply(363304,"response to expelee Gush Katif","Yehudit Tayar","Bet Horon","11/19/08","I am not a member of the council and I agree wit you that they betrayed us while they promised to bring the thousands of our brothers and sisters to the Gush our last days there- yes I too was uprooted from the Gush and like you pray for our return home for all of our families to the Gush");
AddReply(362425,"Arthur, there is no need to relocate the settlers","Assaf","NYC","11/17/08","Once Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, the settlers could stay at the their homes and areas of spiritual importance and receive a Palestinian citizenship.");
AddReply(362341,"the good the brave and then ...the politicians","arthur","jersey city","11/17/08","It is shameful how Israel treated the residents of Gush Katif, Israeli Citizens, and it foretells how the Israelis in Yesha and Jerusalem will be treated. It is sad that in accepting surrender of Israeli lands, there never was an arab Palestine,strengthen the posiyion that ALL of Israel is temporary and baseless.40 years of reality on the ground are ignored and rejected when it applies to Israel. 100 years of fiction are accepted as real when it involves the arabs. How will Israel relocate and compensate 600,000 when they could not keep their promises to 6000? Who will pay who will build who will care? Israel is commiting suicide and the so called leaders do not have the decency to admit it? They will slaughter their children and break the families rather than be honest");
AddReply(362315,"Expellee- its not about the quality of life","Assaf","NYC","11/17/08","Leaving Gaza was not about improving the quality of life for neither side. It was an act of self preservation the Jewish state had to take  to solidify its majority in areas under Israeli control. Yes, the pains are great and security is worse, but these do not pose an existential threat to the state as an Arab majority does. Razing ordinary houses and leaving synagogues intact just goes to show how deviated is the Israeli thinking when it comes to the prospect of living in coexistence. What was the point in this? What was gained by razing these communities to the ground, leaving only piles of rubble for an impoverished population? What was the point in leaving the synagogues intact of all things? You say I don\'t know the Arab population. Here\'s a secret I\'ll share with you- I served 3 years in Hebron and Gaza, doing my reserve duties in Nissanit and Erez border crossing.");
AddReply(362313,"hope","ali","new york","11/17/08","i hope from this group of brave young people who have been in the trenches comes the next wave of government leaders... it is my fervent hope");
AddReply(362215,"Assaf, please explain","Expellee","Gush Katif","11/17/08","Please explain whose life has improved since the expulsion. The Negev is being bombed on an almost daily basis and even the Arabs in Gaza would welcome their Jewish employers back. \nAssaf you should learn a bit about the Arabs of Gaza. The houses were destroyed but the synagogues, public buildings and many greenhouses were not. The Arabs - Palestine doesn\'t exist and never did - razed the synagogues to the ground, despite the \"Holy Place\" signs in English and Arabic. Most of the public buildings were also razed by the Arabs, the others are being used by Hamas and El Aksa University to spread Antisemitism. The greenhouses were almost all looted and then destroyed.  ");
AddReply(361873,"Small Correction","Larry","(TA)","11/16/08","Barak and Olmert, especially the latter, feel morally responsible for talking about Schalit. Yes, they are responsible for his fate but so are all Israeli citizens. And as other posters wrote, the right wing or nationalist or sensible publics all have abandoned, at least indirectly, Gilad. Partly they did this by listening to Miki Goldwasser and others.");
AddReply(361540,"How painfully true","Helen Freedman","NYC","11/15/08","Yehudit Tayar writes a compelling piece that brings tears to one\'s eyes. Are Israel\'s soldiers and citizens so expendable that the government can treat them with such disdain? It is a shameful situation.");
AddReply(361539,"agree with every word!","svietka","","11/15/08","");
AddReply(361423,"Gaza","tom","New York","11/14/08","Israeli soldiers are in Gaza\nbecause Israeli politicians\nare not of the same calibeof a Bush or a Bush.\nBefore sending in ground troops to Iraq the US and Brittain sent in Jets , and used ships to fire missiles.\nWhich is more expensive a Jewish life or a bomb?");
AddReply(361415,"Israel","sy","monsey","11/14/08","See you leaders for what they are");
AddReply(361399,"Pulling out of Gaza was justified, destruction was not","Assaf","NYC","11/14/08","No sane Israeli would like to return to Gaza and re-establish the Israeli rule over the 1.5 million Palestinians living there. Pulling out of Gaza was its own reward, shifting the demographic balance decidedly in favor of the Jews in lands under Israeli control. However, there was no reason to destroy these homes and communities except for pure vengeance and scorched earth policy. For one, the settlers could have stayed in place and accept Palestinians citizenship, or Palestinian families could have moved to these fine houses which were mostly build by Palestinian labor anyway. Leaving nothing but rubble and destruction for the already poor Palestinian society to handle, Israel gave a very clear message that its policy is not geared towards coexistence and peace but brutality and coercion. ");
AddReply(361393,"Sorry, I meant the Karni crossing","Mike","Vienna, VA","11/14/08","That\'s what happens when you type in a hurry.");
AddReply(361268,"Let\'s not forget the YESHA Council\'s role in the expulsion","Expellee","Gush Katif","11/14/08","Yehudit, are you connected to the YESHA Council? If you are, then you are complaining now about a situation which you helped create. ");
AddReply(361262,"Betrayal was  nation  wide","Hershel","Jerusalem","11/14/08","Including  the  good  element  who  protested\nbut  refused  to  confront\nthe soldiers to  stop  this  process,over  a  quarter  million  peop;e prayed at the  kotel a  week  before\nthe  disengagement,that it \nshould  not  take  place.But\nevery-one depended  on  miracles & no action against it.Plain& simple it  was  Jewish  christianity.\n300,00 were  in  tel-aviv  for  a  demonstration,but  were all  brainwshed  by  yesha  leders &majority of\nRabbinical  leaders,\"G-d  forbid  no  confrontation.\"\nand  this  turn  the  other  cheek  polcy  is still  going  on.Not  to  mention  the  anti- torah proclamation  of majority  of Rabbinical\nleders \"Soldiers  should  obey the law  of the  land.\"\n(even  though they  said  it wasn,t  right.)What  was amazing  was every  one fell  for this anti-torah, retarted  ruling  &logic.");
AddReply(361242,"Our sons in Gaza","Daniel Ben-Hillel","Karnei Shomron","11/14/08","The reason is very simple! We accept somebody whose children deserted their army duty to be PM! If he thinks that his children are \"different\"or not suitable to risk their lifes for whatever motive, how can he lead our country?\nFinally, they are their, because Baruj HaShem we are not like them and we love our country and our land! ");
AddReply(361185,"thanks","batya","eye of storm","11/14/08","for the important article");
AddReply(361169,"It is not....","An ole Kohane","","11/14/08","world opinion or approval ratings that motivate Israel\'s immoral leaders--but money. \n\nThose blind guides of the blind and perverse have sold Yaacov\'s seed down the river for BRIBES!");
AddReply(361155,"why? because.","peter","tel aviv","11/14/08","the answer is embedded in the question. the current and forseeable future are leaders who have little to no Jewish values. they will do what the international universalist demand and what is good for themselves. the religious will wait for G-d to act. and, the rest haven\'t gotten the full picture, since mch of the media is controled by the post-zionist party.");

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