GAZA: DAVID SILVERMAN

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A water-cannon forces back right-wing settlers as Israeli riot police try to take over the synagogue roof where hundreds of extremists had barricaded themselves August 18, 2005 at the Gaza settler community of Kfar Darom.

Now that the dust has settled ...


Actually it hasn't. It's just beginning to rise.

The dust from hundreds of homes being bulldozed into the ground.

The dust kicked up by the speed of the disengagement, which I must say has amazed everyone I have spoken to.

The dust from the tent encampments set up by settlers unhappy with the resettlement offers made to them by the Israeli government.

So let's see what next week brings.

MORAG, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 22: Israeli soldiers take photos as heavy machinery tears down the very same settlers' homes they until last week strove to defend in the evacuated settlement



PE'AT SADEH, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 21: Israeli bulldozers are seen tearing down a settler's home through the window of a neighboring house facing imminent demolition where the residents have painted the word "peace" on the wall August 21, 2005 in Pe'at Sadeh settlement in the Gaza Strip.




KFAR DAROM, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 18: Israeli riot police are covered in paint and foam as they break onto the synagogue roof where hundreds of extremists had barricaded themselves during the evacuation August 18, 2005 in the veteran Gaza Strip Jewish community of Kfar Darom.

NETIVOT, ISRAEL Jewish settler bride Rivka Netanel is greeted by friends and family as she arrives for her traditional religious wedding to Bezalel Weinstein in the Faith City settler encampment August 24, 2005 in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. The bride was evacuated from her Gaza Strip settlement home of Atzmona last week and the groom hails from the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh. The majority of the uprooted Atzmona settler community established the Faith City encampment in an uncompleted industrial complex where they live in tents until the Israeli government agrees to their demand to be resettled together in a new community.

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