BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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However, for a change, it looked like they were seeking the
facts. The first speaker was Itamar Marcus, head of
Palestinian Media Watch. His presentation was a bit arrogant
but it was calm and orderly. Showing video clips and charts,
he showed how the "Palestinians" were defeated and
prepared to abandon terror before the Gush Katif pullout was
announced by Sharon. Immediately after, attitudes changed.
Now a great majority agreed that terror had worked and was
the only way to exact concessions from the enemy.
Marcus presented solid facts and he was the last speaker to
do so. From then on things deteriorated badly. Facts were
replaced by opinions. One windbag after another hogged the
microphone with the same old harangues against Sharon.
Four speakers in a row, in overly dramatic tones, elucidated
why they would refuse to obey any army order to evacuate
Gush Katif.
And on it went. Opinion, opinion, blabber, blabber and more
heartfelt opinions.
It never occurred to these blabbermouths that their opinions
are worthless because the government could not possibly
care less what they are. The only possible good a meeting
like this could do would be to bring the hard facts and plan
concrete reactions to them. The only useful result of this
meeting would have been a plan of civil insurrection and the
will to carry it out.
But there were no facts, no plans and no will. Any
disobedience would be controlled by the government through
their Shabak inciters like Itamar Ben Gvir. A popular rebellion
among the Jews was out of the question. Their cause was
lost and with it would go the nation.
I was then, transported back to 1938. In Kfar Bilu time was
suddenly racing backwards seventy years. I told my son, "In
1938, in Germany and Poland, groups of Jews would meet in