This potentially perilous process will persist as long as the Gaza Strip is allowed to be a staging ground for attacks against Israel as well as a weapons depot of unimaginable proportions. That surely was not what the architects of the unilateral and unconditional withdrawal in 2005, including then-prime minister Ariel Sharon, had in mind. The Hamas cadres in Gaza immediately misinterpreted the pullout as a historic victory for their side and an unprecedented opportunity to wreak endless havoc on Israel.
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