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Gush evacuees still waiting for permanent homes

Moshe and Rachel Saperstein, seen here outside their temporary home in Nitzan, are still waiting to move into their home in the new community of Bnei Dekalim. (Ben Harris)

More than four years since the August 2005 removal of some 9,000 Israelis from Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, the national trauma of the forced evacuation is firmly in the past. But for the majority of evacuees, who still do not live in permanent homes, the trauma has not ended. Read more » Editors' Picks Obama's first year in the Mideast (Foreign Policy, Washington Post) Aaron David Miller and Jackson Diehl consider the hard lessons of President Obama's first year of Middle East peacemaking. Siegman: Israel = apartheid (The Nation) In an essay in The Nation, Henry Siegman, a one-time leader of the American Jewish Congress who jumped to the think-tank world, plays the apartheid card against Israel. Spanking Stephen Walt JTA's Ron Kampeas gives a piece of his mind to the Walter side of Mearsheimer and Walt. Breaking News The U.S. Army will double the amount of emergency military equipment it stockpiles in Israel. Iran reportedly has suspended its nuclear enrichment program for two months. A bipartisan delegation of U.S. Congress members said Palestinian Authority strides in transparent government and security created the basis for immediate peacemaking. Israel will build a fence on its border with Egypt to prevent the infiltration of terrorists and migrant workers. Israel doesn't need United States loan guarantees, Israel's finance minister said. Mexican Jewish businessman Moises Saba Masri was killed in a helicopter crash near Mexico City. The remains of a prehistoric building, the earliest ever discovered in the Tel Aviv region, were discovered in Ramat Aviv. Agudath Israel of America called on the Obama administration to reconsider assistance to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the murder of a Jewish settler. Egypt said it will ban Gaza-bound aid convoys from traveling across the country. The first international conference for emergency preparedness and response opened in Tel Aviv. A delegation from the U.S. Congress visited the sites of terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires. Israel struck the central Gaza Strip after four mortars were fired at southern Israel, reportedly killing three Palestinians. Israel recaptured the world record for making the largest plate of hummus, nearly doubling a record set in Lebanon less than three months ago. An Australian who served in an elite unit of the Israeli army broke a Guinness World Record for strength. A major U.S. Jewish relief service launched a fund to support opposition to a proposed Ugandan law that targets gays. A plurality of Israelis would oppose legislation banning the construction of minarets on mosques, a survey found. Two more pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested as Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe'er lost in the semifinals of a tournament in New Zealand.