Ha'aretz (Israel) : "Analysis / Israel wrecked Arafat, crowned Hamas, and gave birth to Al-Qaida in Gaza" par Nehemia Shtrasler

Analysis / Israel wrecked Arafat, crowned Hamas, and gave birth to Al-Qaida in Gaza  

By Nehemia Shtrasler  


This week marked four years since the Gaza disengagement, and it seems that the Strip is becoming increasingly radical - that peace is more distant and the settlers who were removed from the enclave are more embittered. Did Ariel Sharon and the majority of the Israeli public that supported the move make a bad deal?

The settlers in Gaza won big time. They had two goals: to extract huge amounts of compensation from the government and to keep the issue on the public agenda as an open wound, as a traumatic and costly experience in the extreme so that all politicians who might dream of a similar solution in the West Bank would tell themselves that it is impossible.

The Sharon government made every possible mistake in its handling of the evacuees. Instead of giving all 1,751 households a respectable sum of money and telling them, "from this point you're on your own" - the way we absorb immigrants - it established a large and cumbersome administration that quickly became the address for endless demands and complaints by the evacuees. And now, just recently, the government approved that this administration continue operating for another year, and the Knesset is debating proposed legislation that would expand compensation to the evacuees. This issue will..............................
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