Bicycles Sought for Expelled Children 00:31 Sep 08, ’05 / 4 Elul 5765 (IsraelNN.com) Children expelled from the community of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif are having difficulty in getting to school because of a lack of bicycles, according to volunteers. The government moved the families to a guest house but they were forced to […]

Part One Now that Israel has ceded Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, a new terror state called “Palestine” will be declared. Midwifed by both Prime Minister Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush, this 23 Arab country will have to meet certain explicit requirements of statehood under international law. More precisely, every state must satisfy […]

As this column reported last week, the Tunis-based head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Farouk Qaddumi, whose official position on Israel is that it should be destroyed, will move into Gaza this summer. He is a possible successor and key rival to the Palestinian Authority’s current leader, Mahmoud Abbas. Mr. Qaddumi will be bringing with […]

Most of us surely remember those cute but chilling childhood games played with toy pistols. Sometimes they were packed with nothing more harmful than water or a well-worn plastic bullet, chewed several times over by the family dog. The game always ended when a shrill, childish voice would call out “Bang, bang, you’re dead” and […]

More than anything else, what now emanates from Prime Minister Sharon`s willful deportation of pious and peaceful Jews in favor of avowed Palestinian terrorists is an overwhelming scent of impurity. Surely it had been bad enough for the embattered Jewish inhabitants of Gaza to endure endless and inexcusable Arab cruelties, but to compound this unique […]

Palestinians still live in refugee camps, even when the camps are in Palestinian Authority controlled areas, because the PLO opposes and prevents refugee resettlement. As the PLO slogan goes, A Palestinian refugee never moves out of his camp except to return home (ie, to Israel). While the PLO has done its best to keep Palestinians […]

The Israeli government’s removal of its own citizens from Gaza ranks as one of the worst errors ever made by a democracy. This step is the worse for being self-imposed, not the result of pressure from Washington. When the Bush administration first heard in December 2003 that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had unilaterally decided […]

I write this from New York after returning from a bitter trip to Israel in mid-August. I wanted to be with my friends in Gush Katif during the period of the scheduled expulsion. I was sure it would never happen. Knowing the dedication, devotion, and beauty of the people and the land of Gush Katif […]

As family after family is evicted from a home and a community, as the synagogues are emptied and the nurseries abandoned, the scale of destruction and suffering seems overwhelming. Equally overwhelming is the ease with which four decades of work and love invested in communities can be effaced. Is it really that easy to destroy […]

Whatever one’s opinion about disengagement, there’s little doubt that those uprooted from their homes and lives are undergoing upheavals of the sort that shouldn’t be wished on anyone. From their personal vantage point, they were dealt a very raw deal. The last thing they should encounter now is institutional callousness, bureaucratic run-arounds and official hardheartedness. […]