It was April 2024, long before Netanyahu mounted his political comeback. The proposal on the table would have paused the Gaza war for at least six weeks. It would have created a window for negotiations with Hamas over a permanent truce. More than 30 hostages captured by Hamas at the start of the war would have been released within weeks. Still more... See more

But in 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the hawkish right-wing general, decided that Israel should get out of Gaza, and he pulled out unilaterally. The plan was supported by about 60 percent of the Israeli population at the time, me among them. In the Gaza disengagement, Israeli soldiers dismantled settlers’ homes and uprooted their livelihoods

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