Contributed by: filbert Monday, August 15 2005 @ 06:47 AM CST
Israel begins removing settlers from Gaza[*1] :
Israeli troops fired in the air Monday to keep back hundreds of Palestinians, including a few dozen masked gunmen, who were marching toward southern Gaza’s Gush Katif bloc of settlements in celebration of the impending withdrawal. The crowd burned a cardboard model of an Israeli settlement, complete with an army watchtower.
I suppose it’s too much to ask that the Palestinians accept this Israeli peace gesture with some small amount of decorum.