I'm late in linking to David Bogner's excellent essay on the above referenced liquid litter. As usual, he's managed to put into words what I experienced as a visceral flush of confusion, astonishment and disgust when I read the same article a few days ago.
While looking over the news this morning I was stunned to see that our Prime Minister had made some remarkable statements about the as-yet-still unsettled settlers from Gaza and the northern Shomron. Remarkable considering it was his word that those pesky, disloyal settlers were supposed to have taken regarding the terms of their resettlement and compensation.
Incredibly, this Jerusalem Post article described, "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert lash[ing] out on Sunday at the red tape hampering the resettlement of the Gaza evacuees."
Hellooooo! Memo to Olmert: It was on your say so that more than 8000 people were thrown out of their homes and forced to abandon the lives they had built for themselves in the Gazan and northern Shomron communities. Do you really mean to tell us that you didn't look at the resettlement and compensation apparatus before giving them your word?
David has facts and figures, and they're just sad. Very sad indeed. He has some more questions, too, and they all really deserve answers.
