SETTLERS' SUNSET.

Authors :: Derfner, Larry
Source :: U.S. News & World Report. 7/25/2005, Vol. 139 Issue 3, p16-20. 5p. 6 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: Discusses plans of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to take the historic step of ending his country's embattled, 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip. Homes and farms that will be bulldozed to rubble as families are uprooted and forced to start their lives over somewhere else; How Israel's upcoming "disengagement" from Gaza and some tiny settlements in the upper West Bank is dividing this ancient biblical land like few travails in its modern history; Plans of Sharon to send 43,000 Israeli soldiers and police to remove die-hard settlers on August 17, 2005; How the uprooting could dangerously widen divisions among Israelis.