BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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This is a vital test. Within is a scathing indictment of the
politicians plotting against the Jews of Gush Katif and Yesha.
There is not much time to get that message heard widely.
But the Mersel family helps me out. They gave me a
thousand shekels to give the book to soldiers as gifts, hoping
they will reconsider any actions against fellow Jews they may
be ordered to undertake. Dozens of soldiers of every rank
and unit accept the books with gusto and promise to share
them with their compatriots in the IDF.
Just as good. . .The book's first week is a huge success, with
200 sold. Only one other book at the fair may have outsold it
and that would be:
Boomerang, which was published in Hebrew last week. The
authors, left-wing commentators Raviv Drucker and Ofer
Shelach, reveal how Sharon came to make the decision to
withdraw from Gaza and Northern Samaria. According to the
two writers, Sharon’s basic impetus for adopting the radical
left-wing plan ­ that had been overwhelmingly rejected by the
voters in the January 2003 elections [but treacherously
approved by the Knesset in October 2004] ­ was his desire to
avoid indictment for his role in corruption scandals for which
he and his sons Gilad and Omri were under police
investigation.
The fact that I reported the same thing a year before, of
course, will go unacknowledged. I knew the strategy of
diversion first hand from the experience of trying to expose
the truth of the Rabin murder, and coming too close to
breaking through.
In October, 1999, the Rabin family began a public campaign
to have the assassination reinvestigated. The issue was
number one in the news. That ended when PM Ehud Barak
announced his decision to withdraw from the Golan Heights.
From that point on, the Rabin family's voice was muted and
hundreds of thousands of Israelis expended millions of