of course the Israeli citizen will foot the bill. We have been footing the bill of the irresponsible settlement policy for years now and this is merely another item on the bill. What is amazing is that the politicians have never been held accountable for their irresponsibility. We vote in the same idiots from the same parties time and time again, who then squander billions on the financially and morally untenable settlements of the messianic lunatics instead of dealing with the socio-economic problems of Israel. Clearly, we are the idiots by virtue of our sheep-like compliance with and support of the cynical politicians, and therefore deserve to pay the bill.

Who will pay for the demolition? There are no takers. Maybe because it's stupid, idiotic, ludicrous to destroy good homes and good sources of livelihood (the greenhouses), in an area for such terrible poverty as the Gaza Strip. If disengagement is a first step toward peace, then would it be logical, as an active goodwill, that Israel enjoy giving and that the Palestinians enjoy receiving? From a practical standpoint the farmers using the greenhouses today employed Palestinians who will be given these greenhouses enable them to make a better life for themselves and their children, instead of finding themselves unemployed with no future. Maybe this could be the first small step in solving the conflict. Considering the housing in which the majority of Gaza residents live could some enjoy moving into modern housing? Wouldn't this decrease the reason for conflict? The loses? The Palestinian politicians? If the Hamas choose to dance on the rooftops, or destroy the property left behind let them. It will be like A daily labor cutting off his right arm rendering him jobless. The Palestinian Authority must choose peace and prosperity with economic rewards or continued conflict and poverty for the populace. Israel must make it clear internationally that if the Palestinians want peace the strategic alternatives of a better life and peace for their citizens they will protect the property and put it to good use.