Uprooted in Gaza

The Israeli disengagement from Gaza is the big news from the Holy Land at the moment. Though part of my academic specialty is the Israel/Palestine conflict, I find that I have little to say about the pullout. Yeah, I'm glad the Israelis are withdrawing, but I know it's only because Sharon is going to hang on to parts of the West Bank, which is against U.N. Resolution 242. And it's been hard for me to feel a lot of sympathy for those settlers who are being evicted from land on which they have been squatting illegally. I guess Danny Rubenstein's article in Ha'aretz sums it up for me. Have a read.