...And oddly enough, (click here) like good lab rats, we did just that. We learned to drive with our car windows open so that we could hear sirens while on the open road. We taught our children how to fall asleep again once they were moved into the safe room in the middle of the night. We developed a whole slew of coping mechanisms that range from “dressing for missiles” – no heels or straight skirts allowed – to black humor, acknowledging the absurdity of living in this kind of situation. A child wakes up from a crash of thunder last winter screaming, “missiles,” and we get to make jokes about how children of the Negev are more familiar with the sound of falling Grad missiles than actual rain. We became old war heroes, exchanging stories of close calls from the missiles of 2009 versus those of 2010 and 11....
They haven't suffered enough yet?
The Israeli government decided that a unilateral disengagement of Gaza would bring about a long term peace.
Don't try and tell me this is simply more Israeli aggression. It isn't. This is the result of a failed attempt at peace for the same reason it was doomed from the beginning; there is no reliable Palestinian partner. There isn't today and there hasn't been for decades.
There is no Palestinian Authority that can stop the violence of their extremists.
| The Unilateral Disengagement Plan - General Outline (click here) 18 Apr 2004 | |||||
 (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Office)1. General Israel is committed to the peace process and aspires to reach an agreed resolution of the conflict on the basis of the principle of two states for two peoples, the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people and a Palestinian state for the Palestinian people, as part of the implementation of President Bush's vision.... |
