that is, bombs, rockets, and shootings, which is always the palestinian response to any israeli gestures.

please be more cruel to hamas terrorists . thank you very much . l admire your assassination policies to the terorists groups leaders :) go on

The govt. is going to fight poverty, this after putting a whole segment of people on unemployment and destroying the $200,000 export business in Gush Katif. Why does this not make sense?

There is no question that Sharon has lost his mind. He opines about the poverty of the Gazan Arabs. So let us set the record straight - he is now contending that DESTROYING successful and productive Jewish ! enterprises will help the Arabs in their case of "envyitis". In other words, the fact that the PA leadership has been grooming their people for jihad, and not to lead productive lives, is now the Jewish Gaza residents fault. Therefore, the only thing a Jewish ! PM can see fit to do to alleviate the disparity among the Jews and Arabs in Gaza is to DESTROY their lives work. While the Jews live on their own land, and ask nothing from the Arabs, this fact doesn't mean a thing to the PM. He will go down in infamy as the Jewish destroyer ! who felt fit to appease the Arab's inferiority complexes by destroying their life work.

The resettled setlers will have a whole army of people finding jobs for them and getting them working again. They have temporary accomodation in hotels and caravans until they rebuild their houses with the compensation money. Even the greenhouses have be diassembled and resetup on state land, the nurseries are uip and running and the dairy will be transferred to another place at the end of the week. Meanwhile we in Sderot, living in 90 sq meter apartments are looking for work, not being retrained and not being helped. Either you don't know, don't read or are still trying to spead false rumors.

gaza retreat is nothing more than a theatre act, organized by the lunatic settlers. too bad there aren't more real journalists allowed in israel like mr. cook. http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0228.htm

IDF unfortunately also is Israel Disengagement Force and Israel Dumb Force

You've GOT to be kidding. Cook? A "real" journalist? No, no bias there from him, is there? Never mind that in the letter you cited, virtually every fact that he mentions is completely incorrect. How anyone can rely on what he says with a straight face is beyond me.

How 'bout their saudi bros buy them some hope with the extra $500m bucks they're raking in every day? plenty of saudi coastline waiting to be settled...

How can you speak about g-d in your speech wich is 100% against what G-d wants. You are violating the whole torah etc??? THIINNNKK About Judism think about the Torah and then you will find out that the act you are about to do is the worst thing ever done since 1948!!!!!

Gaza is our land. Jeruselem is our land. We must fight and remove all the arabs from our land.

everything he states is based in face. i am truly sorry if you too have been blinded by mainstream media, but a time comes in every persons life when they start realizing the garbage that is pounded into their skulls since birth should be questioned. real reporters who are based in fact like mr. cook are the lifeline for the sane, mainstream society that hopefully you may be intelligent enough to join some day.

He just said his truth, and acted like a responsible political leader! Some would expect empathy from him, but he's not an actor, he doesn't need to cry in order to convice me. Just act! He's a man of action; it's so easy to criticize and do nothing at the same time. This remark is addressed to his political opponents (like Netanyahu), and not to the "settlers". I would like to express my sympathy to all the people who were expelled from their houses, and from THEIR land. I deeply believe it's a sacrifice. My only hope is that it will not be for nothing, like we did after the Oslo agreements (Korbanot Lashalom); but a way to protect Israel as a Jewish demography for many years. What he also said, and is true: It's time to unify the country, and stop with "hatred for nothing" inside israeli population. People should overcome the big divisions (in mentalities) between religious, secular, etc... if the country wants to remain strong and unified. Otherwise, we will always need welcome palestinians (as our ennemy) in order to obtain this unity.

Ariel Sharon was born 77 years ago into the Labor Party, and Sharon will return to the party of his roots, and the party where he should belong. Sharon jumped into the Herut because, at the time, the Mapai was crowded and Sharon saw a vaccum to take control. Sharon is a very cheap, conniving and dishonest politician, but we have those kind in the United States as well.

I do not care what kind of spin Ariel Sharon puts on the eviction of the Jewish residents of Gaza. Terrorism has won, and will become the tool of success for the removal of Jews throughout Israel.

On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates Woe to the worthless shepherd, who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye; his arm shall completely wither, and his right eye shall be totally blinded.

Maybe the reason no "real" journalists are going to gaza is because they're afraid of being kindnapped by Palestinian militants??

The terrorists, highly respected and admired; their bank accounts and war chests filled to overflowing with billions of American and European tax dollars, are not expected to create businesses and corporations with their own finances, long hours and hard work. All of this has been done for them by the victims of their terrorism. Gaza's Jews built highly successful, advanced technology-businesses and corporations. The terrorists do their work of attacking and murdering Jews. The terrorists are now to be rewarded with the land, homes, businesses, corporations, assets and infrastructure of the Jews they attack and murder. Murders, pogroms, genocides, blood libels. Ethnic Jew cleansing. The stealing of Jewish land and assets is the way Jews have always been treated. The U.S. EU, UN and Israeli leaders demand Jews accept this criminal and depraved treatment. Stop this evil Jew hate.

Hamas: Pullout From Gaza is the Beginning of Israel’s End 07:07 Aug 16, '05 / 11 Av 5765 (IsraelNN.com) Hamas politburo leader Khaled Meshal stated that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza marks the “beginning of the end of Israel,” the London-based Arabic el-Hayat reports. “Israel’s pullout from Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Zionist project in the region. It is a historic moment and a major turning point in the Israel-Arab conflict,” added Meshal.

The Jews of Israel have a very simple choice. Either they get married, and have 10 children a family very quickly or they let Sharon define the borders for a Jewish Israel. It is simple demographics. The Palestinians are going to overtake the Jews in numbers between the Jordan and the sea, and at some point later even between the green line and the sea. Then Israel will disintegrate democratically. So Sharon is building a border, and as he once said, the green line is not holy. Places like Kfar Kara will be in Palestine, and Ariel will be in Israel. That is the plan. An Israel, a home for the Jews based on population centres, not where a war stopped in 48 or 67. Sharon is building a lasting Israel, no matter how much we want it to be different, no matter how much Shechem should be in Israel, it can't be held without transer and transfer of Arabs in this world is not permitted. The difference between Sharon and his critics is that he has to take these steps and the critics can just sit there year after year with the same ideological or religious argument that leads nowhere. Sharon actually has the responsibility, and his job is to safeguard his country. Failure to expel Arabs in 1949 has led to this, and drawing a new border is the only way to ensure survival. Then make the Arabs serve in the IDF or strip them of citizenship. Getting people to make aliyah from Sugarland to Israel is another imperative move. Sharon will build a long-term future for Israel. Under the old way, shouting about injustice while the palestinians are having 10 kids, Israel had about 50 years.

now you have many kassets .believe me when i starte to listen to any i know that it is you .well i admire not what you saying but how much you are feathe to your sayings . it is like me but iam feath to what i am believe .. befor many years i was in cairo in kasr alnil street . where there is many shops selling shoes .once i told my aunt that there is some ugly shoes ,,,who buye them aunt; she said if there is not marketing they will not make such ugly shoes ..dear landa it is the same in politics in jornalist ,there is marketing to ugly shoes