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Originally Posted by Regorium
If I pretend to agree with you for a moment regarding the Israeli's motivations for leaving, let me ask you: In 2000-2005, were the Gazans right to mount suicide bombings and rocket attacks towards the Israeli's causing such casualties that Israeli's chose to withdraw in order to save their own lives?
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I strongly sense you are hoping for some type of tacit support on my part for the violent actions of Hamas during those years. I will say this: one of the major reasons for disengagement from Gaza was the particularly violent nature of maintaining and protecting those settlements. It's pretty easy to understand that protecting Israeli settlers in one of the densest areas on earth required an exorbitantly high cost.
It is clear to me that the combination of violent settlers, scared soldiers, and a well-funded and -armed local terrorist organization was a uniquely dangerous powder keg. In addition, international condemnation for the ongoing Israeli presence in Gaza had become a black-eye, something Sharon explicitly mentions in his memoirs.