"Land for Peace" Delusional - Four Years after Gaza Pullout

JERUSALEM, Israel - As part of his Middle East Peace Plan, President Barack Obama is demanding Israel stop building in Jerusalem and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria).

Many Israelis, however, say their pullout from the Gaza Strip four years ago proves that destroying settlements won't produce peace.

In August 2005, the Israeli government uprooted all 21 thriving Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip in what it called the "Disengagement Plan."

After 30 years of successful building and farming on the sand dunes of the Gaza Strip, it took just a week to obliterate Jewish life there.

The government hoped that evicting all 9,000 Israelis from the Gaza communities security would improve. Instead Israel got war.

"In exchange, we got more missiles launched at Israel," said Yoram Ettinger, former Israeli Embassy liaison to Congress, who called the government's pullout "a wake-up call."

"More missiles have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip since the expulsion of the settlements and most importantly, most notoriously, it triggered an all out war last December," Ettinger said, referring to Israel's three-week military operation in Gaza.

"The wake-up call has sent a message to all Israelis that settlements are not the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and certainly not an obstacle for peace," he said.

"The message to the terrorists has been that not only has terrorism paid off, but in fact you get more and more recognition by the international community," Ettinger said.

In fact, many Israelis have changed their minds about the disengagement. A recent poll showed that 68 percent of those who supported the pullout now think it was a mistake.

"More and more Israelis, even those who supported disengagement, realized that it was a terrible mistake," Dror Vanunu, a former resident of Gush Katif, told CBN News.

"Gaza became a Hamastan, a terror state" said Vanunu, who serves as international coordinator for the Friends of Gush Katif, an umbrella organization that helps former residents.
In fact, Hamas has set up terror training camps where Jewish communities stood. And the once thriving hot houses, given to the Palestinians, were vandalized and destroyed.

"During the last war in Gaza [Operation Cast Lead], the Palestinians were shooting rockets from the ruins of our homes, synagogues and daycare centers," Vanunu said.

CBN News August 20, 2009

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[EncompassedRunner]

Jerusalem is not a "settlement," but capital of Israel, w/ long attachment of Jews to it for over 3000 years (King David even paid for the Temple Mount), never the capital of any other nation, & was only captured & occupied by Jordan (then called Transjordan) in 1948 in an illegal war of aggression against Israel, so when Jordan again attacked Israel in '67 and lost Jerusalem, Israel in self-defense won it back from them who only had it illegally to being with & who's not claiming it now anyway.

[churchintheair]

The Lord is the "PEACE" of Israel. One day, when Israel will be IN FAITH, peace will come DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS TO WAITING JEW'S and deliver all from sworn enemies from ALL OVER THE WORLD! THE "LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH" WILL COME: JESUS CHRIST WHO IS FAITHFUL TO PERFORM WHAT GOD HAS ORDAINED.

[simba1936]

Israelis are great people and may they live long and prosper in the land of plenty.

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churchintheair

AMEN!!