Astoundingly, many on the left-wing proponents of the expulsion of Jews from Gaza have publicly
acknowledged their mistake in strident terms:
Journalist Ilana Dayan: How is it that we all blindly followed Oslo?...Why didn't we ask whether disengagement was the right step?"
TV personality Avri Gilad: I supported the disengagement plan and I was wrong?the orange (pro-settlement camp) was right.
Journalist and political commentator Yaron London: Nothing has been built on the ruins except terrorist training camps?"
Playwright Yehoshua Sobol: I wouldn't like to see us folding from Judea and Samaria once again and to see Qassam rockets being fired on Kfar Saba, Ra'anana and Herzliya?"
Major-General Yiftah Ron Tal: (Commander of the land forces during the disengagement): I cannot understand why Israel relinquished parts of its land voluntarily and passionately, and how it turned settlers connected to the land into criminals?
Journalist and TV personality Yair Lapid: The calmest front at the moment is in Judea and Samaria. Heretic thoughts are suddenly occupying the minds of the staunchest leftists: Perhaps it's not the occupation?
Alon Gershon Hacohen (in charge of disengagement in the Gaza Strip): The disengagement was a crime, and I was a partner to a crime against the Jewish people?the Second Lebanon War is the punishment?"
Journalist Dan Margalit: I had hoped that it would be possible to achieve bi-national peace between the River Jordan and the Sea; however, there is nothing to discuss?a man should not be expelling another from his home; moreover, a Jew should not be expelling another Jew.
Journalist Yoel Marcus: It appears that the extremist settlers ?were the ones who were right. The Palestinians turned Gush Katif into a base for ongoing fire?"
The above quotes were compiled by the Yesha Council, but I find some of them so extraordinary that they are a little hard to believe.