What happened when Israel withdrew from Gaza?

The withdrawal of Israel from Gaza is a subject I have written on before and I still get angry when I think of how my country, the United States, has bullied Israel into giving up her covenant land.

Israel’s Gaza withdrawal also known as The Gaza Disengagement was completed in August, 2005. Then PM Sharon said “The disengagement will allow us to look inward. Our national agenda will change. In our economic policy, we will be free to turn to closing social gaps and to waging a real fight on poverty. We will advance education and increase the personal security of every citizen of the country.” I can remember the videos of the hard working Jewish settlers being forced off their land by their fellow countrymen, Israeli soldiers. The settlers had made the desert bloom only to lose it. And of course, peace was not a result. PM Sharon wanted defendable borders, what he and Israel got was rockets within shorter striking distance.

John P. McTernan has written a very interesting book; “As America Has Done to Israel.” Time and again we have pressured Israel to give up the land given to them by God. Starting in early August 2005 and continuing through September, the United States put enormous pressure on Israel to withdraw from twenty-one settlements in Gaza and four in Samaria. Enter Hurricane Katrina the many parallels between it and The Gaza Disengagement. The US government told residents to evacuate their homes prior to the hurricane Katrina and Israel ordered a mandatory evacuation of the settlements. Jews took to their roofs to delay the eviction, and thousands in New Orleans went to their roofs to keep from drowning. Jews had to re-inter their dead in cemeteries outside Gaza and Katrina uncovered hundreds of bodies from Gulf coast graveyards. These were just a few of the events in America that mirrored those in Israel.

Hurricane Katrina is history and the area has not recovered to this day. Before that there was “The Perfect Storm" in 1991. During the Madrid Peace Process, the elder President Bush was very clear that Israel was required to surrender parts of the covenant land for peace. Interestingly enough, President H. W. Bush own home was affected by the storm. There was far more destruction to follow and many times the United States seemed to come under God’s judgment.
Here in the United States several presidents from both parties have bullied Israel into giving up land that not only did God say was their but they won it after being attacked. As an aside, I can’t remember any of our presidents offering to return Southwestern US to Mexico. Every time I hear our politicians refer to any of Israel as “The Occupied Territory” I visualize God recording it as one more black mark against our country. We in the United States seen to have disregarded Genesis 12:3 and we are under judgment from God.


Added later:
Today I received an email from info@unitedwithisrael.org with a link to a video "Withdrawal from Gaza - 7 Years Ago Today." http://vimeo.com/46423843
It'll be interesting to compare this video with what I remember from the videos from 2005 as the Jewish settlers were forced off their land.
Again, PM Sharon wanted defensible borders, what he and Israel got was rockets within shorter striking distance. What we got in the United States was Katrine.