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WinSmith: "I noticed at no point in your article do you note that Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005."
And I noticed that at no point in your letter did you note why Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005.
Dov Weisglass, a then-top advisor Ariel Sharon, explained that they did it to freeze the peace process and to "revent the establishment of a Palestinian state":
"The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that's necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians. ...
"[T]he rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did. The significance is the freezing of the political process. And when you freeze that process you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package that is called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed from our agenda indefinitely."
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And so it goes.
