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The Israelis pulled out of Gaza because they could not hold it with 8000 Zionist colonialists trying to subdue one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza...of course while they were there the Israelis made the Palestinians lives a misery stealing their water,land,building checkpoints and shooting the Palestinians when and where they could.

They also made a mockery of the pull out.Israel still controls the air space ,land borders and coastal waters of Gaza.It even controls the Gaza crossing into Egypt.Hundreds are stranded there as I write.

Israel has killed hundreds in Gaza since the pullout with shellings,missile strikes and naval bombardment being prominent.The capture of the Israeli army corporal [with the french passport ] was in response to these Israeli attacks.
Now of course it is trying to pound Gaza to bits.
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You quote from the song "Where have all the flowers gone"... great song....there's another one from the same period which is perhaps more pertinent
"We were waste deep in the big muddy but the damn fool kept saying press on"