{"id":197570,"date":"2008-01-24T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/israel-moving-toward-full-disengagement-from-gaza\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T03:57:00","slug":"israel-moving-toward-full-disengagement-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/israel-moving-toward-full-disengagement-from-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Moving Toward Full Disengagement From Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Total disengagement&#8221; means no electricity, no fuel, no nothing, no kidding.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the southern wall (or is it a fence&#8230;whatever) between Egypt and Gaza, Israel is no longer in control of all of Gaza&#8217;s access point, and so there are elements in the Israeli government arguing that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matan Vilnai, deputy minister of Defence, speaking on an army radio station said that: &#8220;We have to understand that when Gaza is open on the other side it is no longer our responsibility, consequently we want to separate ourselves from it&#8221;. Vilnai added that, following the withdrawal of Hebrew colonists in 2005, &#8220;we want to continue our disengagement from Gaza and stop delivering electricity, water and medicines so that they can be supplied by someone else: we will act responsibly until an alternative comes up&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/breaking\/106577.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/africa.reuters.com\/wire\/news\/usnL24903297.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3498142,00.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gf6wbGZX2ALZl9yL4-99VuksC9bQD8UC7R8G0\">here<\/a>,   and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agi.it\/world\/news\/200801241055-pol-ren0010-art.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In response to these suggestions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,,2245944,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\">Egypt is moving to regain control of the boarder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that no one wants responsibility for Gaza.  I think that this concept is less appetizing than Plutonium toothpaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Total disengagement&#8221; means no electricity, no fuel, no nothing, no kidding. In response to the southern wall (or is it a fence&#8230;whatever) between Egypt and Gaza, Israel is no longer in control of all of Gaza&#8217;s access point, and so there are elements in the Israeli government arguing that: Matan Vilnai, deputy minister of Defence, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}