Maybe there's a reason for this. Just about every major Israeli candidate for prime minister in that time campaigned on a promise not to vacate the Gaza Strip, and every one of them eventually decided that vacating Gaza was a good idea.
Uh?
Tell it to Bibi.
And even if it was a good idea to let the animals have their pen to themselves, no one in his right mind would have surrendered without a complementary concession.
Nature, God(?), proved, that Sharon was not in his right mind.