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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In August 2005, Israel unilaterally disengaged from the Strip, removing thousands of Jews from their homes.
While the whole world is talking about “the day after”, now’s the time to think of today, even as the battles in Gaza are still raging, a surprise initiative. Time to return the dignity of Settlements and “teshuva” for the shame of the Disengagement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Two-thirds of Israeli Jews favor IDF security control in Gaza post-war.
Recently, Israel’s Ambassador to the USA, Michael Herzog, was summoned to a meeting with Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"It was in fact the Obama administration that said, when it was in office, that it no longer recognized or no longer felt bound by the assurances that were given by both sides."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The coalition agreement between Likud and the Religious Zionism Party requires the government to reverse parts of the disengagement and allow for the Homesh Yeshiva to remain as a first step towards rebuilding the four communities.
The year 2005 was the first time I ever truly felt the pain of Tishabaav.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Cohen has been teaching at Homesh for several years and has never been arrested.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
100 Israelis has returned to the forcefully abandoned community of Sa-Nur on Monday night, stating they were there to stay.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Coalition Chairman Miki Zohar (Likud) and Member of Knesset (MK) Betzalel Smotrich have introduced a bill to repeal the 2005 Disengagement Law from northern Samaria “to correct the injustice.”
By JNi.Media
The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
By JNi.Media
The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
Amona residents appear to be opposed to any compromise even at the expense of being evacuated by force.
By JoeSettler
We asked the soldiers, what will you tell your children you did during the Disengagement?
Naveh said that then PM Ariel Sharon did not consult with the IDF senior officers about the Disengagement.
On Tuesday, Israelis who used to live in the northern Shomron town of Sa-Nur returned to see what was left of their former home. The Jewish residents were expelled by the Sharon government in 2005, as part of the Disengagement. Four towns in the Shomron were destroyed by Ariel Sharon and his forces. Among those […]
This interactive trip, marking the tenth anniversary of the expulsion from Gush Katif, will take ten busloads of visitors to several of the new Gush Katif communities, to show solidarity with them.
As the infamous quote says, "We established what you are, now we're just haggling over the price."
Ambush victim’s solution to Arab rioting: “Put them in Gaza.”
As we're thinking ahead and making our New Year resolutions, here are 5 easy ways to help the Zionist pioneering citizens formerly of Gush Katif rebuild their lives destroyed in the 2005 Disengagement Plan.
Israelis in Gaza border communities need to get out; who will help them?
Lieberman comes up with his third solution in less than a month what to do with Gaza. The question is what to do with Lieberman.
By JoeSettler
A reader claimed the Disengagement from Gaza was good, because it reduced the number of murdered Israelis. Examining the numbers tells a different story...
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler points out that most Gazans want to leave, and most Jews want to go back home to Gush Katif. How about a solution that actually resolves the conflict?
It has been 9 years since Israel’s Disengagement. JobKatif continues to bring relief to the unemployed and underemployed families From Gush Katif through vocational training, employment placement, counseling and coaching.
Israeli leadership doesn’t look to God for help, it gave away Gaza because of political predictions and calculations.
Retired Supreme Court Edmund Levy, who headed a three-man committee that debunked allegations that Israel is an “occupier,” died Tuesday night at the age of 72. He served on the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2011, capping a legal career that began with studies at Tel Aviv University several years after his family immigrated to […]
The Gush Katif Committee has worked for several months with Housing minister Uri Ariel, and the Tnufa administration headed by Yisrael Melachi, to develop a working plan for the victims of the mass expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005. The committee’s targets are to develop new communities, which besides fulfilling the obligation to […]
Michael Oren thinks if the U.S. can't force Israel to give up land for nothing, Israel should do it on its own.
Orange is a dangerous color to Bolsheviks
By Shalom Bear
An Iron Dome and additional steps are being deployed so that Gazan rockets don't hit anyone at Ariel Sharon's funeral.
By Eli Chomsky
Do Israelis believe it’s OK for political aspirants to say whatever they feel is necessary to gain power?
Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.
Barak praised Netanyahu for being a "courageous" advocate for peace.
The Gaza Strip is swarming with radical Islamist groups whose goal is to destroy Israel and the U.S. Most emerged after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
By Batya Medad
I was especially disturbed in the troubling times leading to the Disengagement expulsions when so-called Torah observant rabbis said that a Knesset vote could over-ride the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
If you are thinking of voting for Kadima and Shaul Mofaz, if you are thinking of voting for Likud and Bibi Netanyahu - take a look at this news report.
By JoeSettler
I fully believe Avigdor Liberman when he says that he will uproot Jewish homes for peace. So should you.
Let's face it, people here don't vote for representatives. Party bosses and power players do.
Many forget that Netanyahu's score on his actions during the Disengagement was a floor hugging 14%.
In the past seven years since the Disengagement from Gaza, we have been witness to the conversion of Gush Katif into an armed camp, an arsenal from which some 9,400 rockets and missiles have been fired at the Israeli civilians and communities on the other side of the fence.
By Moshe Dann
The expulsion of 10,000 Jews from their homes five years ago was not a localized event in the Gaza Strip. It was a national implosion, a national disgrace. It caused enormous physical, psychological, social, cultural, military and strategic damage to the entire nation - and it still does. Like an ecological disaster, its foulness still seeps through our foundations, and continues to poison us.
By Isaac Kohn
In a recent speech, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested that Israel consider unilaterally disengaging from Judea and Samaria. "If it is impossible to reach an agreement with the Palestinians,” he said, “we should consider an interim arrangement, or even a unilateral disengagement.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Boycotts on products from Judea and Samaria harm Palestinian livelihood. The simple truth is that industry in Judea and Samaria are imperative for Palestinian livelihood.
June 26, 2026 
