Many in the media and many viewers talk today as if they are wrapping up some project and they're off to the next topic of discussion. HALT! STOP and THINK what has happened. Besides the increase in security risk due to this horrific disengagement, thousands of people's lives have been been irreparably damaged. Those were peoples homes, jobs, livelihoods,belongings, and now they are basically out on the street. They have lost the only place they have called home, lost thousands of dollars, been seperated from friends, and are psychologically pained forever. I can guarantee that no nation in the world will give even a backward glance at the world's latest refugees...because they're Jewish. May we merit to immediately see the end to all this pain and suffering. G-D needs to send us the Messiah NOW!!! WE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH!ENOUGH! ENOUGH!

You might be right about a few people that lost jobs or houses. BUT HOW CAN YOU COMPARE THAT to the lives of soldiers and civiliens that will be saved thanks to the pullout. Unfortunatly, you care more for a piece of land and a few dollars than you do for lives of soldielrs, mothers and children. That's really a shame!!!! I believe you will become sobor in a few months and regret these thoughts.

the next topic is essentially the continuation of the present topic. It is called the "road map".

I think that in the comments here something is missing: the big picture. Lives broken vs soldiers lives is definitely a good argument- but only if its correct. However in this case it simply is not. This pullout will, heaven forbid, cause much pain for the Jew in Israel. It would bring the terrorists to a new proximity with Israel and would boost their support and determination by a big amount. One could go on and on about each negative thing that it would cause, G'F. In other words, if it were 'lets just leave the area and no need for an army', then that would possibly make sense (without dealing with the issue of rights of the land), however here the issue is very different: the army will always be needed for the foreseeable future. Terrorism looks like it is not only not getting weaker but getting much stronger. Etc. Therefore, it is logistically more logical to have a buffer zone in Gaza and the 'WB', rather than to pull back. Meaning, from a pure security perspective, this move is absolutely illogical. Its like a child saying who is passified at being told 'if you wait without making trouble for just a few more minutes, you'll get your lollypop' when all along there is no intention of ever giving the lollypop. Yet the child becomes silent. Why? Because he believes that maybe this will help in his goal. Were he to look beyond the immediate present and see how his goal will never be met, he would plan another strategy. There cannot be quite there in Israel until she displays absolute deteminism and resolve. She must also not be affected by the words that the world showers upon her. No solution involving false peace with the neighbors will work. The neighbors want her gone, period. They may place this goal on the back burner at times, but it is very present- even with the most peaceful countries around her. If she wishes to delude herself that she will get peace- or at least quite- if only she gives in a little, and a little more etc... that is her choice; but its simply self deceiption. I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything, I'm just speaking the facts of the matter. General Yaalon said similar points after he stepped down. I believe that one can find them all online (a long interview immediately after his position ended) May we hear *true* good news.

In hindsight, it seems that it would have been worthwhile to let the people barricaded on the roof in Kfar Darom to sit in the sun a day or two in order to reduce the level of conflict. Both sides, it seems, were more interested in a show of force, then in being seen to have backed down.

Ofer Shelach is an idiot. Anyone who has heard about his insane theories in the book BOOMERANG cannot give him any credence. His downplaying of the extreme violence on the roof of the Kfar Darom synagogue is unspeakable.

No commentary anywhere has challenged the legitimacy of deporting an entire population, for all the brutality and inhumanity of it, and creating a homeless population of 8,000 people, families. Not only were they torn away from their homes and their livelihoods, they were not accommodated. All the air fresheners on earth couldn't cover up the stink of Sharon's repellant deportation.

Everybody forgets that it was only the non-violence of the religious settler public, residents and non-residents that permitted thenon-violence of the soldiers. One gunshot and bones would be broken. Second, despite all of this restraint, the immoral and shameful press tried to drum up some entertainment value and drama by labelling them: radical, extremist, fanatic, outside agitators, hard-liners, militant, rioters. Listen, an Arab insane mass murdering bestial perverted savage is a media 'suspected activist. A Jewish fanatic is an Arab Zen Buddhist.