Opinion | 15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza

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Opinion | 15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza
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It was always time to end this atrocity, which makes now the perfect time.

What finally culminated in the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza in August-September 2005 wasby Sharon in 2003, approved by his government in 2004 and finally adopted by the Knesset in February 2005.

The above assertion was even clear to James Wolfensohn, who was appointed by the Quartet on the Middle East as the Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement. In 2010, hea similar conclusion: “Gaza had been effectively sealed off from the outside world since the Israeli disengagement ... and the humanitarian and economic consequences for the Palestinian population were profound.”

“When you freeze process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem,” according to Weisglass. Not only was this Israel’s ultimate motive behind the disengagement and subsequent siege on Gaza but, according to the seasoned Israeli politician, it was all done “with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress.

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