Israeli troops began a forced evacuation on Wednesday of thousands of settlers enraged by their expulsion from the Gaza Strip after Israel's 38-year occupation.Source.
The move is the culmination of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for the first removal of settlements from land Palestinians want for a state.
Palestinian militants claim the withdrawal as victory and Israel opponents decry it as a surrender to violence. Washington hopes it will prove a catalyst for renewed peacemaking.
Displacing thousands of people is going to be a catalyst for peace? And that would work how exactly? I mean, yes I may not be on top of politics as much as I should be, but I didn't realize the world had changed so much that forcing thousands of people to leave their homes (and indeed the land God has given them) would be a means to attain peace. Silly me.
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Actually, it wasn't millions of people. There were only about 8,000 Israelis in the Gaza Strip. It might also be interesting to note that when talking about Israel as a whole, there is a large non-Jewish population. (And the state of Israel was only established about 60 years ago.) How does that fit with the idea of God-given land?
Ok, I'll correct that momentarily, but still. That is a lot of people to be getting displaced. God gave the Jews (who by the way are the ones being put out) the land quite a while before the 1940s. My point stands, read the Bible, God has promised them the land.
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