"I happen to be in favor of the unilateral disengagement," Prof. Avraham Diskin of Hebrew University's Political Science Department said today, "because I believe that there is no chance of ever reaching an agreement with the other side... But I believe that in this case, as in the case of every other law, a citizen is permitted to decide if he is willing to follow the law - especially as long as he is willing to pay the price."
Prof. Diskin spoke with Arutz-7 this afternoon, and said, "I'm not merely paying lip service when I say that this is truly a painful act that the government is planning to carry out on thousands of people. It is clear that there will be those who, for reasons of conscience, will not want to follow the law - and this is a legitimate position. This is not a legal or criminal issue."
Diskin said that the uprooting of the Jewish residents is "definitely an act of transfer." He explained that "transfer" is not only a case of one ethnic grouping using force to relocate another ethnic grouping: "For instance, the largest transfer of the past few decades was when Germany transferred millions of Germans from the area of Poland that they had annexed... and there are many other cases of this nature. Transfer is equally immoral whether we transfer Arabs or Jews. The only difference is that we don't have the power to transfer Arabs, but we do have the power to transfer Jews; I don't think that it will result in a civil war."