"The country is literally being ripped apart," says FOX News correspondent Jennifer Griffin, on the scene in Gaza as Israeli citizens grapple with a government order to leave their homes forever and not look back. The specifics are totally different -- not to mention the political institutions and politics on the ground, with their earth-shaking implications thanks to Islamicists' and their fellow-traveling Western leftists' adoption of the Palestinian intifada as their cause celebre -- but the underlying dynamic is identical to the eminent domain ruling of our own Supreme Court a few weeks back. #1. No one wants to be kicked out of one's own home. #2. Especially for a cause one doesn't believe in. Gaza may be only #3 on Technorati's "Top searches this hour," but it cuts to the quick of what it means to have safe home and haven. In this country, above all others, it's a founding principle. In Gaza, its' touch and go:
Resistance was much stiffer in Neve Dekalim. Dozens of men wrapped in white prayer shawls held roadside morning prayers at sunrise, hoping that divine intervention would somehow prevent the withdrawal, while orange-clad teens danced in circles.
"Who dares to do battle with God," read one protester's T-shirt. "Brother, don't expel me," said another.
God helps those who help themselves?
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