(Ynet News) Sever Plocker - Eight months after the withdrawal from Gaza, or what was referred to as a "unilateral disengagement," Gaza did not calm down and the PA did not take matters there into its own hands in order to establish the Middle Eastern Hong Kong. The handing over of the border crossing with Egypt to Palestinian control also failed to lead to the expected results. The Palestinians failed to implement their sovereignty. Even the removal of the settlements is no longer perceived as such a huge victory by the Palestinian people. The thousands of good jobs at the settlements have disappeared, and instead unemployment and poverty grew.
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