An Unsealed Room: I Agree With Yair Lapid

July 08, 2007

I Agree With Yair Lapid

I've sounded just like him when responding to the "you see, you-see disengagement was a huge mistake" right-wing crowd.

Yes it is terrifying that we have a Hamas state on our southern border but just imagine that 7,500 Israeli citizens were still there, with children needing to travel to school each day, Imagine their vulnerable expansive communities and the three military divisions deployed there to protect them and all the solitary pillboxes erected in the area and the long corridors that are used for security, the hitchhiking stations on the main roads, the synagogues, the cars, everything.
And that is – if you’ll forgive me – exactly what we said then. We have to distance ourselves from the Palestinians, to shut them off, to separate from their impeccable talent for doing the wrong thing. The disengagement – even with its failures and hardships – was the only thing that has allowed us now to carry on almost normally within an insane situation.

You tell 'em, Yair. Absolutely.

Posted by allisonks at July 8, 2007 09:28 AM | TrackBack

Comments

It's not just a "Right-wing crowd" thing. I know plenty of people more to the Left who feel the same way.

Posted by: Aussie Dave at July 8, 2007 10:04 PM

'Cause people tend to confuse military disengagement with removing citizens in the line of fire.

Posted by: lisoosh at July 9, 2007 07:41 PM

I am sure the people in Sderot feel very disengaged from the Palestinians. Burying your head in the sand will not make them leave you alone, nor will paying for their electricity and other amenities, nor will releasing some the terrorists the GSS was good/lucky enough to catch.

Posted by: J. Lichty at July 12, 2007 02:43 AM

Talk about rationalizing the irrational!

The fact remains that forcibly removing some of the world's most beautiful Jewish communities from Jewish land was a horrific matter of historic proportions. - Not that the Gaza expulsion will necessarilly be remembered by history as some major event. It appears likely that it will be seen as just one of a whole slew of unfortunate events and undertakings that were part of the eventual distruction of Bayit Shlishi and the massacre that accompanies (and/or follows) it.

By God, what a tragesy that we're led by the blind.

mnuez

Posted by: mnuez at July 15, 2007 08:16 PM