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On September 12, 2005, the last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip, completing the disengagement plan and uprooting 21 flourishing, generations-old Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip and four from the northern region of the West Bank.

Israel has been dedicated to peace with its Arab neighbors from the day it declared its statehood. In 2000, then-Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak met with Yasser Arafat, the late chairman of the Palestinian Authority, at Camp David. Barak offered the Palestinians nearly all of their territorial demands to make way for a state of their own.

Barak?s offer meant the dismantling of thousands of Israeli homes in the hope of finally achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Arafat?s response was...

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