I must say that I feel uncomfortable with the direction this new pull-out thread has taken. I don't think that  Etni should be a forum for political opinions. I do think that we should raise the topic in our classes but only if we are able to do it in an objective way, showing the difficulties of both sides, using articles that express on the one hand the settlers beliefs but on th other hand speaki at the same time about the fact that the majority of the legally elected knesset members who represent the people of Israel decided in favor of the pullout. Even a government that consists of 10 tiny minority parties which together form a majority is a government that represents the majority of the knesset and therefore the Israeli voters. A decision that was also approved by the high court for justice is not  illegal. Stop saying that this was an illegal decision. Say that you don't agree with it. Do you know how many decisions were taken by the different governments which the leftists didn't like? So what? That's democracy, whether you like it or not. I believe that we should speak about the difficulty to accept democratic decisions, about the limits of freedom of speech and protest, about LEGAL ways to protest. Don't say that what happened in Kfar Darom was the media's and the leftists fault. But if you want to show settlers pain so talk about those people who had a ceremony on Sunday and left their houses in a quiet and dignified way. They are heroes, not those who were on the roof in Kfar Darom. The soldiers who didn't lose control, who didn't answer those little kids who were indoctrinated by their parents, they are heroes, not the kids. The soldiers who did not refuse the orders even though it was against their beliefs but who realized that in a democratic country a soldier has to obey an order (exactly as those leftist soldiers who gave their life for people in Gush Katif settlements despite the fact that they thought they shouldn't live there), those people are heroes, not the rabbis who accept a salary from a government they work against.

Vera