Sacrificing Gaza: How a Roadmap for Peace Turned Into a Roadmap for Slaughter

Who would have thought that an area once so beautiful and flourishing would become the launchpad for one of the most brutal slaughters in modern history?

A Palestinian boy gestures a V-sign as he watches an Israeli tank (not shown) open fire while guarding the border of the vacant Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim near Khan Younis Refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 7, 2005. At the time, Palestinians awaited the complete Israeli withdrawal from the settlement in Gaza. Abid Katib/Getty Images

Commentary

It seems like only yesterday that many of us were keenly glued to the dramatic events of what the news simply referred to as the “disengagement”—Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and its planned removal of nearly 9,000 Jews from the largest bloc of Jewish communities known as Gush Katif.