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Originally Posted by octothorp
Although there was much violence by Palestinian terrorists, it wasn't this threat of violence toward the settlers that caused them to be removed. Sharon forced them to move primarily to gain political leverage with the US, which was successful in the letter that Bush sent two months later, backing several tenants of Sharon's proposed resolution, including the relocation of Palistinian refugees into Gaza rather than into their previous homelands throughout Israel. Essentially, Sharon was advocating population exchange as a solution to the violence. You can dispute whether population exchange counts as ethnic cleansing (borderline, but I don't think it does), but that solution came entirely from Sharon. The Palestinian solution has always been in support of the Arab Peace Initiative, which has a lot of flaws, but allows for Israel to maintain some settlements inside Palestine and for Palestine to maintain settlements inside Israel.
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Are you maintaining that Jews wouldn't be at risk of violence in the Hamas run Gaza strip. Even if they chose to confine themselves to historically Jewish neighbourhoods?
I agree Sharon was an advocate of population exchange, but that doesn't change the fact it has been unsafe for Jews to live in the muslim and arab world for quite some time. Israel has motivations for bringing these Jews into Israel, but that is not the only motivation for them leaving. It's a push and pull scenario. They are being pulled by the Israeli government and pushed by the arab/muslim governments simultaneously.