This is really not what we hoped for'

[pelsar]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948028.html
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They dreamed of a transit station that would lie on the border between two countries, Israel and Palestine. At the site would be a joint medical center, to which people would flock from Gaza, from southern Israel and from the greater Arab world in order to receive advanced treatment. Alongside the medical center, a commercial complex would be established at the border crossing between Netiv Ha'asara and Gaza, which would employ Israelis and Palestinians and bring prosperity to both nations.

Kibbutz Nahal Oz greeted the withdrawal from Gaza with a sigh of relief. Kibbutz members were certain that now, after the Palestinians had been liberated from the yoke of Israeli rule, tranquility would come and with it an economic boom.

You can't imagine how many plans we had," she recalls. "We planned to set up a joint economic-industrial center with the residents of Gaza. We are the closest ones to Gaza, but instead of that center, we have tanks and other weapons of war at the entrance to the kibbutz."

Of her Palestinian neighbors she says: "I no longer have faith that something can be done together with them.
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kassams.....one of their dumber ideas....and soon we'll probably see katushas, just as the israeli right predicted.....and then their lives will get even more miserable.....