Twenty Years Since the Disengagement: I Watched From Afar, Now I Live Its Consequences

Twenty years since the disengagement: I watched from afar, now I live its consequences

Then I was sitting in New York...now I live in Israel. Opinion.

Twenty years after Disengagement

Australian Jewish News – 14 August 2025   Disengagement was a failure, but that doesn’t mean it was the wrong thing to do. Twenty years after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, the move still creates disagreement. People use the sometimes contradictory outcomes of Disengagement to back their arguments. Some say disengagement proved that Israel could take on the settlers; and allowed it to remove over a million Palestinians from its direct…