Essays

Dialogues Circles in Gush Katif and Neve Dekalim

Reuven Goldfarb shares his experience with a circle of Arabs and Jews who went in to listen, with compassion, to people living in Gush Katif, a bloc of 17 Israeli villages in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the Israeli army carried out the Cabinet's decision and forcibly removed the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif from their homes. Their communities were demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

By Reuven Goldfarb, ago