Haaretz - Israel News

Danny Rubinstein correctly assesses the Palestinian view of Israel's pre-emptive surrender of Gaza.

...the disengagement is perceived in Gaza and the West Bank as a great victory. The Israeli explanations that it is a 'disengagement' and not a withdrawal, and certainly not a retreat, do not interest the Palestinians. As far as they are concerned, the army is going to quit the entire Gaza Strip and the State of Israel will be uprooting the settlements. Throughout all the years of the peace process, that has never happened. All the complicated negotiations, all the summits and all the diplomatic talks never achieved for the Palestinians what the armed struggle and resistance achieved: a disengagement.