"The official line is that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which a few thousand Jews have occupied in the 38 years since Israel gave an Arab coalition of the not very willing a devastating country whipping in the Six-Day War, is that the withdrawal is a demonstration of trust that will make Israel's borders easier to defend. No one who has read a newspaper or watched a television newscast on almost any single day over the past decades really believes the trust part. The Arabs, who know themselves better than anyone else, don't even trust each other."

---Wesley Pruden