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Earlier this week tens of thousands of Israelis protested against a government freeze on building and construction in Judea and Samaria. In a country where the population is only around 7 million, this was a major, major demonstration. As predicted it did not recieve widespread coverage, at least objective coverage, from the MSM. This "freeze" is the result of intense pressure on Netanyahu from Obama and the Europeans who acting out of appeasement policies. Where are you Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Rush Limbaugh? Why won't you add your voice to that of Sarah Palin in opposing this pressure from...

Obama ,the Un, the Eu and others are intensely interested in Judea(the west bank. So is Jesus. a conflict is brewing.check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm5qpUyDGmU

Obama and Judea 9/23/09 | Bill Randles Posted on September 23, 2009 5:02:38 PM CDT by pastorbillrandles Obama and Judea “The let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let Him who is on the house top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And Woe to them that are with child and to them which give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day: for then...

Obama and Judea >“The let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let Him who is on the house top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And Woe to them that are with child and to them which give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day: for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,...

This is a video I posted on youtube, on the jewish holy day Tish Ba'Av- which is a day of fasting and mourning in commemoration of the destruction of the Temple which occurred on this very day(the ninth of Av)in 539 BC and in 70 AD . There are an amazing array of other national calamities down through the centuries ,which have befallen the Jewish people on this day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jI34xWtvc

OUT OF EGYPT: A Christian Analysis of Obama’s Cairo Speech Part 2 - No Growth for Those Who are in Judea… Another related issue of concern that Obama addressed in His speech is the continuation of Jewish settlements, in the so-called “West Bank”, of which the Bible calls Judea and Samaria. He opened this subject at the point in the speech where he validated the terrorist organization elected to run the Palestinian state in the west Bank - Hamas. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have to recognize they have responsibilities, to play a role in...

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"Make a $10 donation to help rebuild the town of Homesh, which was destroyed during the 2005 Disengagement-Expulsion. The town will symbolically and defiantly be called "Homesh -Obama Hill" until President Obama is out of power ." Made mine today! You also have the opportunity to send a "letter to Obama" informing him you have made a financial donation to help with construction in Samaria, in defiance of Obama's pressure on Israel.

"Make a $10 donation to help rebuild the town of Homesh, which was destroyed during the 2005 Disengagement-Expulsion. The town will symbolically and defiantly be called "Homesh -Obama Hill" until President Obama is out of power ." Made mine today! You also have the opportunity to sign a "letter to Obama" informing him that you have made a financial donation to help with construction in Samaria in defiance of Obama's pressure on Israel.

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Central Command has warned residents of 24 Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that they face eviction in the near future. Thousands of people who reside in the communities could find themselves homeless. The list of communities facing demolition includes towns that were built up to 10 years ago, such as Migron and Givat Assaf. Senior members of the Ichud Leumi party were informed by IDF officials that the towns will be evicted either peaceably or by force before June 6, the date on which United States President Barack Obama plans to give a historic address to...

In his meeting with Vice President Joe Biden last week, Israeli President Shimon Peres is reported to have said that "ending natural growth in settlements was a non-starter" and, in his own words, that "Israel cannot instruct settlers in existing settlements not to have children or get married." If it sounds like a gag, it's real. "Natural growth" was officially made an issue in the "Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," promulgated by the U.S. State Department in 2003 under the auspices of the Quartet (consisting of the U.S., the EU, the UN, and Russia)....

http://wingless.aoriginality.com If you can prove a country called Palestine existed on Planet Earth in the few billion years before 1948 then wingless.aoriginality.com has $$$$ reward for you! COME ON DOWN! They had no takers yet because you will never find information on something non-existent. (if it was a country, what was its capital, its flag, its government, who recognized it, what was its history, its currency, when did it declare independence etc...)

Protest against security fence being constructed near Na'alin turns violent as Israeli, Palestinians, foreign nationals clash with IDF troops A reported 150 people participated Sunday afternoon in a demonstration near the West Bank village of Naalin, west of Ramallah to protest the security fence being built in the area. The protestors accused IDF soldiers of using tear gas to disperse them while the latter claimed that rocks were thrown in their direction. The demonstrators - Left-wing Israeli, Palestinian and foreign nationals - have gathered on land due to be confiscated to allow for a fence to be built around the...

Kislev 5768, December 6, '07 Published: 12/05/07, 11:03 PM Judea and Samaria: IDF Rounding Up Jews' Weapons by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The IDF is conducting a large scale operation to confiscate weapons from the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, according to Channel 10 TV. The purpose of the operation is described as "putting the settlers' gun permits in order." The security coordinators of the communities in Samaria have been summoned to a meeting with IDF officers Thursday; community leaders are convinced that the IDF intends to collect many of the weapons in the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria....

Published: 11/14/07, 4:12 PM Eldad: Danger to Judea and Samaria, and More, is Acute by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A delegation of senior government officials is in Washington to discuss whether the U.S. demands a settlement freeze throughout Judea and Samaria, or whether it will allow construction in areas such as Gush Etzion and Maaleh Adumim. In either event, nationalist sources fear it indicates the planned end of Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. No date has been set for the Annapolis conference - though Prime Minister Olmert says he is reserving Nov. 27 - but it is widely felt that...

14 Tishrei 5768, September 26, '07 3 Land of Israel Loyalists Arrested for Planning New Towns by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Plans are well underway to build five new outpost communities in Judea and Samaria - though police have arrested three of the alleged planners. Over two dozen special-unit and regular policemen burst into the homes of three Land of Israel activists this morning (Wednesday) in Hashmonaim, near Kiryat Sefer and Modiin. The three Jews - two 40-year-olds and one 20-year-old - were arrested on suspicion of planning the construction of a new settlement in Judea and Samaria (Yesha). The police...

(IsraelNN.com) Israel's government has agreed, in writing, to hand over 6,250 square kilometers of land – the equivalent of its entire biblical and strategic heartland - to an Arab terror state. So reports Dr. Guy Bechor, a leading expert on Arab affairs, who also supplies some of the details of the negotiations. Bechor reports, based on "leaks from the Palestinian side," that Israel has, in the past few days, presented Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas at least one draft of an "agreement of principles." The agreement calls for a state named Palestine to be established alongside Israel, and have a...

Why Does Olmert Evict Jews, But Not Arabs, From Unauthorized Dwellings Following yesterday’s forcible eviction by some 3,000 Israeli military personnel of two Jewish families from their homes in Hebron who had been originally promised permits... “We are shocked and deeply concerned by the deployment of 3,000 Israeli armed personnel ... to evict two Jewish families from their homes and destroy the holy place of worship, the Shalhevet Pass synagogue, named in commemoration of the ten-month-old baby murdered by a Palestinian Authority (PA) sniper in 2001. At a time when little or no action is being taken by the Olmert...

Netanyahu Calls to Settle Judea, Samaria (IsraelNN.com) Likud head Binyamin Netanyahu visited Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria recently as part of his primaries campaign. Netanyahu expressed support of Jewish families in the area, saying that Israel must maintain a presence in all of Judea and Samaria in order to prevent the area from falling to Hamas. He praised local farmers for being “true capitalists” as well. During his visit Netanyahu planted a tree in the town of Kida, near Shilo. The symbolic act was seen by many as significant because the town has not yet received government approval. Despite...

7 Av 5767, July 22, '07 Published: 07/21/07, 10:51 PM Olmert Reiterates Stance to Give Away Judea and Samaria by Alex Traiman (IsraelNN.com) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his belief that Israel "needs to withdraw" from the biblical Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria. Speaking at a gathering of farmers in the Jezreel Valley, Olmert maintained that Israel would have to make "tough decisions" with regard to territorial compromise. According to the Prime Minister, anyone who thinks Israel can continue to hold onto the provinces captured in the defensive Six Day War of 1967 is "living in a dream."...

Sivan 5767, June 14, '07 Published: 06/14/07, 1:25 PM Fatah-Hamas Violence Moves to Judea and Samaria by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Fears of a spillover of violence from Gaza into Judea and Samaria are apparently coming true. Coming off three days in which some 80 Arabs were killed in Fatah-Hamas warring in Gaza, Wednesday night saw shootings, arsons, mass arrests and building takeovers in Ramallah, Jenin, Shechem and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria. In Jenin, Fatah terrorists seized a Hamas school, hospital and offices on Wednesday, and 200 Fatah activists marched in Jenin streets and shot in the air, after having...

Christopher Hitchens is an essayist and pundit who loves a good fight and is never afraid to pick on someone his own size; but this time he's outdone himself. He's picked on God. The title of his new book, "God Is Not Great," is an intentionally inflammatory twist on "Allah Akbar." Indeed, he lambasts Islam as "not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms" from Judaism and Christianity. But Hitchens is an equal opportunity atheist. His reviles all religions and scorns anyone foolish enough to accept any idea on faith. A spate of atheist screeds has...

Israeli government authorities are building a ramp to allow non-Muslims to reach the enormous platform atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The old access ramp was condemned as unsafe and torn down several years ago. The interim ramp that replaced it was designed for short-term service only. (Muslims control the Temple Mount and therefore have their own private access routes.) The new ramp is controversial. Some ramp must be built or non-Muslims will have no way to reach the Mount; but leading Israeli archaeologists say that the ramp under construction is badly placed and ought to be someplace else. This...

Just because Muhammad envied & revered the Jews & their sites doesn't make a place "islamic"   I really resent the MSM language, terms & references to the surroundings of the wailing wall, Jews' only surviving piece of it's rich historic temple.   The Islamo Arabs (that basically have a fascist-genocide agenda, there is no secret that they simply want all non Arabs, all non Muslims out or dead), has recently come up with another "religious" theme (in an attempt to galvanize more Muslims around it "religiously"), the excavation by Israeli scientists to repair the Jewish holy site.   "Islamic...

European Transfer Force on the way By David Bedein February 5, 2007 A freshman member of the Israeli Knesset, Professor Shlomo Breznitz of the Kadima party, has offered a plan that would hand over the administration of Judea, Samaria and Gaza to a European task force, until the establishment of a Palestinian state. The plan would involve destroying most of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, as Jewish communities were destroyed in the Katif sector of Gaza and in northern Samaria in a matter of less than two weeks during August of 2005. Breznitz, 70, a professor of psychology...

The Israeli government shied away from ensuring the right of Jews to pray on the temple Mount, opting instead to grant the Muslims the right to administer the Mount. Jewish prayer was immediately forbidden. http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm_______________ Regardless of what the Judaic law says about permitting Jews on the temple mount, the issue of Arabs, Muslims INSIDE Israel's democracy having far more rights is overwheling.

Temple Aqueduct and Ritual Bath Excavated Opposite Temple Mount Monday, January 15, 2007 / 25 Tevet 5767 Excavations being conducted opposite the Western Wall Plaza have uncovered an aqueduct that brought water to the Holy Temple, as well as a ritual bath from that period. The never-before-excavated area is situated behind the Western Wall police station, adjacent to the plaza where millions of worshipers and tourists come each year to visit the Western Wall and Temple Mount. The new archaeological find uncovers a missing link in the ancient water system, known as the "Lower Aqueduct" which channeled water from Solomon’s...

Gov´t Allows Arabs To Squat on Jewish Farmland 22:19 Jan 07, '07 / 17 Tevet 5767 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118929 (IsraelNN.com) The Civil Lands Administration has allowed Arabs from Yatta, near Hevron, to squat on land 10 miles away that has been farmed by Jews for 10 years. Nearby residents of Beit Yatir, in the southern Hevron Hills, protested on the property Friday, claiming that the presence of the Arabs presents a danger to the area. "Their tractors are unlicensed and they drive them on the roads at night without lights," said a Yatir spokesman. Army officers who arrived on the scene confirmed...

Defense Organization Trains Response Teams and Civilians Alike by Ezra HaLevi As Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and along the Gaza and northern border brace for terror attacks, an organization is providing counter-terror training to first-response teams and civilians. Magen Yehuda (The Shield of Judea) has been training first-response teams throughout Judea and Samaria, offering courses for civilians on proper response to attacks on the road and has now been contacted by Israeli towns along the Gaza and northern borders with requests for training. “With fighting soliders sent to carry out more and more dangerous operations, soldiers untrained in counter-terror...

Peretz and Olmert: Outposts Will Remain, By and Large 12:21 Oct 25, '06 / 3 Cheshvan 5767 by Hillel Fendel PM Olmert and DM Peretz have agreed, with right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu about to join the coalition, that only illegal structures in Yesha will be destroyed - not merely those that are "unauthorized." According to the agreement, only structures built on private Arab-owned land in Judea and Samaria will be removed. This is a departure from what has been Defense Minister Peretz's stance until now. As he has publicly declared repeatedly over the past month, he favored a blanket removal of...

Peretz to Yesha Residents: Leave Outposts Peacefully – or Else 23:32 Oct 16, '06 / 24 Tishrei 5767 by Hana Levi Julian Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced Monday afternoon that residents of unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria would be forced out of their homes, one way or the other. Peretz told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he has given the Yesha Council leadership two weeks to convince outpost residents to leave their homes voluntarily. After two weeks, he said, the IDF would forcibly expel Jewish residents from their homes in unauthorized communities. During Sunday’s...

Old Testament dispute continuesWas King David Judaism's King Arthur? By Richard N. Ostling AP Religion WriterAP Photo/Biblical Archaeology Review by Thomas E. Levy American archaeologist/educator Nelson Glueck's suggestions that a gate lay buried at the entrance to the Iron Age fortress of Khirbat en-Nahas were recently realized when archaeologists discovered a four-chamber gate (only two have been excavated). Radiocarbon dating fixed the date of its construction to the 10th century. Some scholars are busily debunking the Bible's account of the great King David, asking: Was he really all that great? Was he largely legendary, Judaism's version of Britain's legendary King...

Defense Minister Orders Destruction of Jewish Homes 23:11 Sep 19, '06 / 26 Elul 5766 by Ezra HaLevi Though put on hold with the outbreak of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, the Olmert administration's plan to destroy Jewish hilltop communities is being put back on the table. Defense Minister Amir Peretz issued a directive Monday night authorizing IDF officials to destroy 90 homes and structures in Judea and Samaria termed illegal or unauthorized by the Civil Administration. The locations of the structures were not released to the public, but Peretz’s associates claim that not only Jewish communities would come under...

RAMAT RACHEL, Israel (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed an ancient water system which was modified by the conquering Persians to turn the desert into a paradise. The network of reservoirs, drain pipes and underground tunnels served one of the grandest palaces in the biblical kingdom of Judea. Archaeologists first discovered the palace in 1954, a structure built on a six-acre (2.4 hectare) site where the communal Ramat Rachel farm now stands. Recent excavations unearthed nearly 70 square metres (750 square feet) of a unique water system. "They had found a huge palace ... even nicer than the palaces...

(IsraelNN.com) The government is reviving plans to demolish several hilltop communities, often called outposts, according to Mideast Newsline. The demolitions were postponed because of the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist attacks on Israel. Kadima officials have said the party's election platform to destroy dozens of towns in Judea and Samaria is no longer a high priority item, but the hilltop communities still are on the chopping block. Sources quoted by Mideast Newsline said demolition orders could force the deployment of thousands of policemen and soldiers to encounter expected resistance. As during last summer's expulsion of thousands of Jewish residents of Gaza...

Good Arab Christian VS Islamized Arab "Christians" You hear so much about Arab Christians in the middle east, the tiny minority in the midle east, what's the real truth about them are they all really just "Arab Christians"? What about those Arab "Christians" that hate America? Well, you have to differenciate between heroic beautiful Arab Christians like Joseph Farah ( http://wnd.com ), Brigitte Gabriel ( http://americancongress4truth.org ), Nonie Darwish ( http://arabsforisrael.com ), Walid Shoebat ( http:(//shoebat.com ), and the Zogby Arab american "activists" or lobbyists on the other side, worse are the Christian Arabs that have always been anti American...

No, Never Again by Rachel Saperstein Jun 29, '06 / 3 Tammuz 5766 The following was adapted from a speech delievered by Mrs. Saperstein to the World Beitar Convention, held at the Hyatt Hotel in Jerusalem on June 17, 2006 My name is Rachel Saperstein. I am 65, a wife, mother and grandmother. I came from New York to live in my homeland 38 years ago. My husband and I once lived in a beautiful home in Gush Katif. Today, I am a refugee. We were forcibly removed from our home by the State of Israel. Not by the non-Jewish...

Where Are the Christian Defenders of Zion? by Walter O´Brien Jun 27, '06 / 1 Tammuz 5766 There is nothing like a crisis to aid in sorting out who one's true friends genuinely are. I canvassed all known US and Canadian Christian newspapers and media outlets since December 2005 as candidates for receiving press releases from pro-Israel Jewish writers. It has been a harrowing and grim experience. Never mind the imbecilic strategies some churches proposed to divest their bulging stock portfolios of firms doing business with Israel: the true effect of divestiture has been to drive those stock values up....

Smoke and Mirrors by Michelle Nevada Jun 28, '06 / 2 Tammuz 5766 A magician makes a living by drawing your attention to one hand while they do a trick with the other. One is so busy watching the wrong hand, it seems like magic when a rabbit appears in a pocket or a coin disappears into thin air. It is the art of "prestidigitation", defined on thefreedictionary.com as: 1. Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand. 2. A show of skill or deceitful cleverness. If you enjoy being amazed by...

On Today´s Agenda: The Unauthorized Outposts in Judea/Samaria 12:32 Jun 18, '06 / 22 Sivan 5766 by Hillel Fendel The ministerial Outposts Committee will convene today, meeting with representatives of Peace Now - which demand immediate destruction of all outposts - and the Yesha Council. The Yesha Council leaders will meet tonight with Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Peretz has declared that dozens of outposts throughout Yesha, of all sizes and legal statuses, are to be evacuated, removed or destroyed in the near future - possibly beginning two weeks from now . "If he means to use us as political fodder...

Struggle against outpost removal planned Plans for 'civil disobedience' drawn up to prevent outpost clearing Efrat Weiss As Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is set to begin his official visit in the United States Sunday, in Israel the Right wing is already drawing up plans the struggle against the plan to clear illegal outposts. A convoy of buses, a march towards the West Bank outpost of Maale Rehavam, and other plans have already been formulated by a number of settler organizations in Judea and Samaria. The aim: "To prove Jewish ownership over the land and to identify the roads which lead...

This week has witnessed two fundamental policies come to an end. The idea of starving Hamas into submission or failing that, bringing about its demise, was jointly shared by Israel and the US. It is no more. Both Israel and the US have thrown in the towel and reversed course. The US went so far as to allow the EU to take over the funding of the “poor Palestinians”. Secondly the Kadima strategy of convergence or consolidation is all but relegated to the dust bin. The EU is on record of opposing it and the US has not encouraged it....

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Israel minimizing West Bank rocket threat? Analysts say publicity about missiles could damage PM's withdrawal plan Posted: May 11, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM –According to some intelligence officials, Israel has been deliberately minimizing the threat of rocket attacks by Palestinian terror groups in Judea and Samaria, the biblical Jewish lands now known as the West Bank, parts of which are within rocket firing range of Jerusalem and other major Israeli cities. Security analysts maintain publicity about terror groups' current missile capabilities in the territories could generate criticism of Israeli...

And There Was No Referendum in Israel by Ariel Natan Pasko May 04, '06 / 6 Iyar 5766 Turning reality on its head, on presenting his new government to the Israeli Knesset recently, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) endangered the State of Israel. Taking a page out of Joseph Goebbels's propaganda lessons, he continued to propagate the "big lie" that Kadima's election "victory" gave him the authority to carry out wide-ranging expulsions of more Jewish "settlers". He promised again not to hold a referendum on the issue. Olmert, speaking...

Egypt's President Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, who met this week, issued a joint call against Ehud Olmert's planned transfer of vast areas of Judea and Samaria to the control of Hamas. The two leaders met in Aqaba, the Jordanian port city adjacent to Eilat, and warned that one-sided solutions will not help in promoting the peace process or regional stability. They said that Israel must negotiate not with Hamas, but with Abu Mazen, the leader of the Fatah organization. Middle Eastern affairs expert Dr. David Bukai of Haifa University notes the irony, explaining that Egypt and Jordan are more...

JERUSALEM -- The leadership of a West Bank Palestinian city now controlled by Hamas has warned a local Young Men's Christian Association to close its offices and leave town or face likely Muslim violence, WorldNetDaily has learned. The move highlighted long-standing fears Hamas would use its win in last January's Palestinian parliamentary elections to impose an anti-Christian, anti-Jewish hard-line Islamist regime in the West Bank and Gaza.

´Peace Now´ Demands: Uproot Six More Communities 16:44 Apr 06, '06 / 8 Nisan 5766 The destruction of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea/Samaria is not proceeding fast enough for Peace Now, and the left-wing extremist organization turned to the High Court for redress. Peace Now, and Dror Atkes, the organization's chief tracker of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, filed a suit in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Defense Minister, the IDF, and four regional councils. The suit expresses Peace Now's concern that the orders for the destruction of the six flowering Jewish communities, issued almost two...

Thursday, March 09, 2006 Annexation? Colonies? Inflammatory U.K. Media Bias On March 6th The Scotsman ran a story with the incredible headline Israel 'plans to annex West Bank colonies' in response to Hamas. The story, of course, was about former GSS Chief and Kadima Knesset candidate Avi Dichter's detailing of Prime Minister Olmert's plans for unilateral withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria. The headline was the most inflammatory part of the piece, of course, and it colors how a reader not intimately familiar with the history of the area and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will view...

Mar. 6, 2006 20:32 | Updated Mar. 6, 2006 20:36 Analysis: 'Short and tight defensible borders' By YAAKOV KATZIsrael's security fence. Photo: Ariel JerozolimskiAvi Dichter's announcement this week that Israel would unilaterally disengage from large sections of the West Bank if Kadima won the upcoming elections, brought to surface one of the most current crucial arguments within the IDF General Staff over the security importance of settlements in Judea and Samaria. While anticipating a second disengagement under the next government, some in the IDF were taken by surprise with Dichter's announcement that the disengagement would be a strictly "civilian affair"...

Report: Olmert to quit at least 17 settlements in Judea and Samaria By Israel Insider staff and partners March 5, 2006 Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose Kadima Party is expected to win March elections, is planning another unilateral withdrawal from at least 17 settlements in Judea and Samaria, Israeli media reported Sunday. Kadima has made drawing Israel's final borders a central part of its platform. Olmert has indicated that should negotiation efforts fail, he would draw Israel's borders unilaterally, as Ariel Sharon did over the summer when he evacuated the Gaza Strip and four small settlements. The reports Sunday...