(NEWS) LA Times Concludes: Withdrawal From Gaza Was Not Smart

"Five years after, a major U.S. newspaper summarizes Israel’s Disengagement from Gaza: 'It was a big mistake.'

Entitled 'Lessons and Legacies of Israel's Gaza Withdrawal,' the August 8th Los Angeles Times piece by Edmund Sanders lists a series of conclusions that can be drawn from the abrupt, unilateral pullout from Gush Katif in Gaza orchestrated by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the summer of 2005. Just five months later, Sharon suffered massive hemorrhaging and entered the comatose state from which he has not awoken."