Disengagement

No need to hide it. Some people are going to the disengagement. Some do not.

Some people are happy about going, but most of them are not. I hear a lot of people ask others "But a left-wing person such as yourself shouldn't have a problem doing the evacuation, as you support it".

The answer is fairly simple: If you were supporting the death penalty, would you be willing to be the executor? It's even more than that. These are people who have done nothing wrong, literally. They followed a call of their country to go and settle a border area in order to gain demographic control over it. They built their house there, their families grew there - And now they need to see it all goes away. It's not that their lives are ruined completely, but that's not the point. It's like taking away from you that chess board that your grandfather gave you before he died. It's not the chess board: It's the sentimental.

However, one thing I don't agree with is the comparison to Auschwitz. With all due respect to these people's suffering from this act, they are not being led into death or even work camps. They are being compensated (if it's enough is arguable, but irrelevant to my current point), they are being led to new homes (again, arguable if it's the same, but irrelevant right now), and they will keep living in the Israeli society. Do these people who use the Holocaust trademark even realise how many Holocaust survivors or second/third generation survivors they upset with this? What about Their feelings?

The final point I have for now is the reason behind this. Some people claim that if this would have provided with immediate peace, it would be more reasonable to do this action. I agree, but do not agree with the opposite: That without an immediate peace this is wrong. I can't really explain it besides reminding us all the reasons we left Lebanon - It wasn't for peace, it was so children, daughters, fathers and mothers would stop dying over that border. The difference now is that we have villages and settlements inside those borders, and that the area is actually an Israeli border. But still, over a million palestinians are living there, enough of them hostile to our settlements. Our soldiers, trying to protect these settlements, get injured and sometimes even die. Our numbers are much less in almost a jokingly manner: around 7000 people live in these settlements.

To make myself clearer, I don't mean they are irrelevant. I just mean that the reason we're doing this is to leave a Hostile Ground. Saying that, I am aware to the Kasam threat. I do hope that the government would provide us with the security required after the evacuation happens, as it's a neccessity. They will not stop just because we left, and we need to be protected and feel that the government is also making our cities secure, and not just acting randomly towards an obscure peace goal.

This should, more or less, poise my personal view about the disengagement act. I will try to add more points of view as things advance there.