I'm glad someone has some decent reality testing there!
Yet even those Israelis most in favor of the Gaza pullout understood that many Palestinians would interpret the move as a strategic retreat and a victory for Hamas and al-Aqsa terror.
"We shot at the Jews and they fled Gaza," they would say, "so let's keep shooting and they'll abandon Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem."
Israel could have refuted that claim by responding immediately and massively to every infiltration and to every rocket fired, irrespective of whether the attacks caused Israeli casualties.
Gaza is now a de facto independent state, Israel should have declared, and like any other state it must bear the consequences of its aggression.
But Israel did none of this.
On the contrary, infiltrations and rocket strikes began almost the day after the Gaza disengagement.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008577