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The children of summer 2005
Gideon Maron, Oded Shalom
Published: 28.07.10, 19:10
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1. Sorry not the state it was Ariel Sharon
Norman   (07.28.10)
Seem like he is paying for it now!!!
2. Ask their fathers where in Europe were born
Observer   (07.28.10)
3. It's time to go home.
John ,   NY, USA   (07.28.10)
"where doors were kept unlocked because there were no thieves". They and their parents are the thieves, living in other people home land. It's time to go back to Poland.
4. #1 Sharon AND the state AND YOU !!
aviG   (07.28.10)
I got there by dust tracks the night before the evacuation and reached Kisufim entrance parking. I was with my 2 daughters, and we expected as it was announced to meet thousands of people to stop the evacuation. Guess what ? We were a dozen folks at the critical spot, noone had come so, gimme a break, NO ISRAELI cared from his heart of Gush Katif fate.
5. sad...a shame that we expelled our own
(07.28.10)
all the power to these young teens. may they never again experience more sorrow and may hashem grant thier every wish.
6. Important lessons for Judea and Samaria
blash ,   Jerusalem   (07.29.10)
There is a bumper sticker becoming popular now in Israel that reads in Hebrew - "Judea and Samaria - the Story of Every Jew". It is about how all the State cares about is PR and the Arabs and Palestinians and Americans and doesn't give a shit about what Israelis think. It's about how the utter moral suicide that would be committed by having Jews expel Jews from the Jewish homeland. By 2005 Sharon was a desperate pig. The Intifada had been going on for about as long as he had been Prime Minister and the Jewish death toll was starting to unhinge him. By the time Sharon executed the withdrawal from Gush Katif, Israel saw that Sharon had abandoned reason and instead embraced surrender, cowardice, and national pain. Now Livni wants to continue Sharon's cowardice and subject Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya, and Haifa to more Qassams. She doesn't understand that the 2nd Intifada never really ended, it just switched weaponry. It. will. not. stop. until every last terrorist and terrorist sympathizer has been eradicated from Israeli sovereign territory. The world may think that it can hide behind the liberal fallacy of moral victory but we know that no such thing really exists in the Middle East.
7. Awww..BooHoo
Peter ,   Vienna-Austria   (07.29.10)
8. #4 liar
Joseph ,   Israel   (07.29.10)
You were not there. Throughout the whole brutal event when Sharon's forces beat innocent Jews and laughed there were tens of thousands of protesters trying to do what they could. Yet they were helpless against a united government, "justice system", press, police and army that happily joined the list of those who believe that Jews are not human and have no rights.
9. #6
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (07.29.10)
You forget one fact: Sharon and his sons were guilty to their necks in corruption, making Olmert and Ehud Baral look like honest men. Edna Arbel had the prosecution ready, but magically she got promoted to the Supreme Court and Menny Mazuz, in thanks for getting the AG job from Sharon, said there was no evidence. The new AG has said that there is no doubt that Sharon is guilty, and if it was possible to try him he would end up in jail.
10. :: Unbelievable egotism!
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.29.10)
What a pack of immature, self-centered, conceited whiners. It must be nice to think that the world revolves around you and you are entitled to live an idyllic life surrounded by thousands of IDF soldiers to keep you safe from the Palestinians that were disenfranchised and oppressed so you could skip school and lounge around on the beach each day. It is all to convenient to blame the State, the IDF, the ‘Arabs’ for the fact that you were illegal squatters in the Gaza Strip, heavens forbid you blame your parents for creating an impossible Zionistic bubble of self-ignorance where you could navel-gaze each day in blissful contentment. Well now it is time to grow up and face the fact that those ‘innocent years’ are long gone, no more personal swimming pools while Gazans had less than the minimum amount of water to drink each day, no more false sense of security as the IDF risked their lives so you could leave your door unlocked, no more empty beaches as the Palestinians were corralled away elsewhere. Now it is time to mature and become a worthwhile member of mainstream Israeli society and repay the small fortune that was spent on giving you such an ‘innocent and carefree childhood’.
11. @3 John
al-kafir al-yahudi ,   usa   (07.29.10)
Ah, the old liberal canard. Well, 1) Jewish genetics PROVES Jews are from the middle east, and 2) the Jews were there before any arab/muslim (proven by simple archeology). Israeli Jews are home. Stop rewriting history, or is that they only way a liberal can "win" an argument?
12. Don't worry, my friends
Sam ,   Netanya, Israel   (07.29.10)
We''l get back there, eventually. We'll build back Gush Katif. And there will be noe more evacuations. Beezrat haShem.
13. to #2 their fathers were born in Israel
ghostq   (07.29.10)
they r not immigrants.
14. to #3 :) the houses were brand new
ghostq   (07.29.10)
arabs didn't live in those houses, all Israeli initiative, roof tiles is rare among arab buildings.
15. #8 U speak of inside Katif, I was at the outside gate
(07.29.10)
where tens of thousands were supposed to come and stop the way out
16. #3 John
Oniel ,   London, England   (07.30.10)
The Muslims invaded the region in 637AD (meaning they took it from someone else, just in case you didnt understand). The israelis have only just taken it back. Perhaps you should try researching a little before spouting out your uneducated nonsense. Oh and while you do your research, may I suggest that you learn a little about your own history. Going by your logic, you are living on stolen land yourself. Go back to wherever you came from and give the land back to the Native Americans
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