Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Calev Ben David and Elliot Jager break down crucial news stories.

The Jerusalem Dispatch
Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

SECURITY FORCES are on the scene as residents of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif resist eviction in August 2005. The writer asks: Knowing what we know now, shouldn’t we, at the very least, acknowledge the possibility that some of those protesters were right?

20 years later: Israel's lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av - opinion


Is Benny Gantz suitable to lead Israel?

Lt. Gen. Gatz seems to be suggesting unilateral Israeli withdrawals and another disengagement. This is both frightening and clarifying.

Benny Gantz, chairman of the Israel Resilience Party

The wars that defined us: Memories from Gaza

A former military correspondent reflects on her time covering the most turbulent years in Israel's history.

OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Will Israel rescind 2005 disengagement from northern Samaria?

Monday afternoon, the Bayit Yehudi faction in the Knesset is holding a debate on the issue.

Samaria is composed of 2,800 square kilometers of landscape, with 130,000 Jewish residents spread over it

Will Israel rescind 2005 disengagement from northern Samaria?

Monday afternoon, the Bayit Yehudi faction in the Knesset is holding a debate on the issue.

Samaria is composed of 2,800 square kilometers of landscape, with 130,000 Jewish residents spread over it

JPost Editorial: Mourning Gaza

One inevitable result of the Gaza withdrawal is that it has made a sizable portion of Israelis reluctant to consider a similar withdrawal from PA territories.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005

Knesset marks 11 years since unilateral Gaza disengagement

Several Likud and Bayit Yehudi MKs lamented the realization of the disengagement plan at Tuesday’s event, saying that 11 years on, Israel is still dealing with the repercussions.

An Israeli opponent of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza mourns before evacuation in the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom

Israel goes back to drawing board on Hamas

A recent warning that the "next war with Hamas will be its last" is a reflection of a deeper change in the military’s and government’s thinking.

IDF SOLDIERS take part in a military exercise last year

Going all the way

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the media in Jerusalem

The endgame imperative

Only a clear vision of the final goal – a sovereign Palestinian state coupled with a final ‘end of the conflict’– could motivate compliance by both sides.

A major problem – the evacuation of settlers.

What would happen if Israel withdrew from the West Bank and ended the ‘siege’ of Gaza

Within the next five years, expect Israel to begin to unilaterally disengage from the West Bank.

IDF soldier detains a Palestinian during clashes in Beit Ommer village north of the West Bank city of Hebron