From a piece in the New York Times:
The demonstrators included many of the almost 240,000 settlers of the West Bank and Gaza, and also secular and Orthodox Israelis from around the country. Many dismissed Mr. Sharon's argument that it is foolish to send hundreds of Israeli troops to protect 7,500 Jewish settlers living among 1.3 million Palestinians.Mr. Hatuel makes a very good point, a very good point indeed. One wonders, though, if Mrs. Schwartz is teaching Shira to dream of a day when they can set the Torah aside. Posted by Chris at July 27, 2004 06:13 PM"If we give up the Gaza Strip, by the same token we can give up Israel," said Chaim Markuza, a 62-year-old retired businessman who was standing near the Latrun junction about 15 miles outside Jerusalem.
Ayelet Schwartz, a 24-year-old teacher from the northern West Bank settlement of Dumim who had her 2 ½-year-old daughter, Shira, in a stroller, said, "If we believe in the Torah, then we believe that all of the land of Israel belongs to us."
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One of the people at the wall was David Hatuel, whose pregnant wife and four daughters were killed last May in a roadside ambush by two Palestinian gunmen in Gaza. "Peace should be made with people who want peace," he said. "The Palestinians don't educate their children to want peace, and you can't have a peace with someone who doesn't dream about peace."
