"Honest, now, if you were the Knesset, or any member of the population of Israel, what lessons would you draw from that sequence of events?"
The lesson that it was nowhere near enough.
Gaza is a ghetto - it is now being referred to as the world's largest open prison.
Expecting people to continue living in those circumstances is inhuman.
Israel's 'concessions' were, in fact a demand of surrender to the status quo - would you have expected that of the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto to have been grateful for such a concession - "we won't let any more of our people take over your homes and we'll remove a handful of those that have moved in unofficially - oh, and by the way, we reserve the right to decide which leaders govern you?
Personally, the way the Israeli regime has behaved and counting the dead (Keith and co have noticeably refused to acknowledge that rather unpleasant fact, other than to give it their full support) I think the Palestinians would be insane to accept anything less than the removal of the blockade and the Berlin walls and having the U.N. on hand to see that this does not happen again.
I suggest you read what the supports of Israel have contributed here if you want some idea of how suicidal it would be to settle for anything less - these people are inhuman.
Jim Carroll