: The implementation of the disengagement plan has begun: At midnight the Israel Defense Forces closed the Kissufim roadblock at the entrance to the Gaza Strip for the last time, and this morning some 600 teams of officers from the army and police will distribute evacuation orders instructing settlers to leave their homes by Wednesday. If the settlers don't leave on their own, they will be forcibly evacuated. BBC | NYT | Google
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all houses, schools and synagogues will be destroyed in gazze except electricity and road infrastructure thus leaving no chance to erect a palestinian flag expressing victory. no agreement has been made for where to dispose the rubble and what to do with it preparing a ground for environmental problems. via Christian Science Monitor
another argument i heard not too long ago was that the Palestinians wanted the Israelis to destroy their buildings, so to not leave this feeling that the Palestinians are endemic to homes/jails constructed by the "other side", but so rather they could erect their own buildings, their own cultural architecture there. Some Pal's saw homes left behind by the settlers as just another form of control, and suggestive of not really even turning over the land completely. The Pal sentiment being 'take your buildings with you, don't try to imprison us in your buidings,' which are as stated in article above mostly unsuitable for the Palestinians anyway.
thats just as absurd as israeli decision to demo them. a lot of those buildings are built by palestinian laborers. and i bet there are a lot of palestinians would like to have them, specially the ones whose homes were destroyed by the israeli bulldozers.
Ab, I understand what you are saying, but check out this article. Lot of issues, from skepticism to plain old pride. The issue definitley has caused debates on all sides of the fence. But I can understand why the Pal's would want them demo'd and gone with a clean slate for their own reconstruction.
Despite poverty, many Palestinians want Israeli buildings demolished
i still think resource is resource. i can understand the emotions running high but if israelis don't demo the houses, PA still can find some use for them.
then there is the concept and defination of 'haram' in islam. which forbids the ownership of condemned property or something like that.
it would probably bring bad luck to the new owners.
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