I am sure that you and your friends know this in your hearts. All your behavior shows this. You are acting out of despair. I propose that you exchange the despair for hope of a solution.
Instead of dreaming up empty slogans like "Let the army win," you should start to think about your return and rehabilitation.
Your enemies will say: "We owe you nothing. Nobody compelled you to go there. We have wasted billions and billions on you. Now you can look out for yourself."
I do not subscribe to that. I, and many more like me in the peace movement, believe that the state should finance your return to Israel and your orderly absorption. After we easily absorbed a million new immigrants from the Soviet Union, we shall absorb 150,000 settlers too. It will be all the easier as most of you are working in Israel anyhow, so that only the problem of housing remains. Israel in peace, with a flourishing economy, will easily solve the problem.
I am convinced that the great majority of the settlers-all except the hard-core fanatics-will sooner or later accept this solution. Sooner rather than later, I hope. Have pity on yourself, on the soldiers. Each drop of blood spilt is a waste. Let not the settlements become an altar of Moloch, on which the children are sacrificed.
When you, too, come to this conclusion, you will find that we are your allies, more trustworthy than all those who flatter you now and who will sell you down the river tomorrow.
Settlers were compensated for the homes they lost during the "disengagement" from Gaza. Palestinians do not receive compensation for the homes Israel bulldozes for various reasons including making room for settlements, bypass roads, and the Wall, or for belonging to the family member of a suicide bomber. Sometimes Palestinian homes are bulldozed for having been built without a permit, virtually unobtainable from the Israeli occupation forces. Frequently, un-permitted houses are replacements for homes previously destroyed by the occupation forces.-SRP
The scene could have been taken from the theater of the absurd. A senior IDF officer was facing the camera, reacting bitterly to Israeli demonstrators calling him and his soldiers "Nazis." "How can you call us Nazis?" he asked, filled with rage. "We are only carrying out orders! Without sentiment!"
I have given much thought to these words. Obviously this officer knows only that the Nazis killed Jews. He does not know that for an