IT'S NOT AS IF THEY HAVE OTHER OPTIONS:

Sobbing settlers' resistance fades as troops clear homes (Ian MacKinnon, 8/18/05, Times of London)

ISRAEL’S forcible evacuation of its settlers from the Gaza Strip began with harrowing scenes of its troops dragging screaming Jews from their homes and synagogues yesterday, but with much less violence than expected.

By late in the day commanders heading the army’s biggest peacetime operation predicted that it could be all but completed by tonight, weeks ahead of schedule, after much of the fight appeared to have gone out of the resistance.

There's always a certain strangeness to folks who manage to blindside themselves with the inevitable.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 17, 2005 11:08 PM