I hope some Freepers that either are from Israel, or have relatives or a strong opinion about the pullout from GAZA, would join this thread. I am none of the above, but I am a fan of Israels and totally believe in the STATE of Israel.
When Sharon first brought up the unilateral pull out I thought it was good because the GAZA strip was a defined area that would be easy to keep the two nations separate. Of course since then, some of the Jewish residents are upset about beening forced to move and "giving in" to the Palestinians.
I am going to defer my opinion on this until I hear some more thoughts on the matter....
Since you ask. Most of the people I know are wholly in favour of the disengagement. We are as likely to be wrong as anyone else and you can of course point out instructive parallels as to why we are likely to be wrong, but to put the whole country in the balance to support a relatively few stalwarts seems wrong.
We are tired of warmaking. We are tired of battling for small portions of land. We don't want to spend the huge amounts of manpower, of young people's lives and of money in defending a few individuals, no matter how much they might sincerely believe in their cause.
I don't think that this could be legitimately called "giving in" to the Palestinians. We see it as pragmatic and practical.
People who incite soldiers to rebel against the army are endangering the state in my own view. We live in a democracy and the majority opinion rules.