{"id":73674,"date":"2015-09-06T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73674"},"modified":"2015-09-06T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T17:50:35","slug":"the-settler-a-chat-with-orit-arfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73674","title":{"rendered":"The Settler: A Chat With Orit Arfa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Varda Epstein writes<\/a>: It’s ten years since Israel, under late prime minister Ariel Sharon, expelled over 11,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and parts of Samaria. The government called this plan the “Disengagement.” But for those forcibly ejected from their homes (and their supporters), the Disengagement will forever be known as the “Expulsion.”<\/p>\n

More than 11,000 rockets have been shot into Israel from Gaza, since that time, more than one rocket per every Jew expelled as a result of Sharon’s unilateral gesture of peace. By all accounts, “Disengagement” is an absolute, and utter failure, proving the point that “Land for Peace” is a nonsensical idea that does not work. Not to mention the fact that over 300 Jews are still homeless as the result of the Disengagement\/Expulsion, with no solution in sight.<\/p>\n

It is rare to read or hear about the 11,000 expellees; but now, ten years on, Orit Arfa has written a work of historical fiction cum romance that makes Disengagement\/Expulsion come alive for the reader. Arfa’s writing voice is bright and sassy, much like the book’s heroine, Sarah, AKA “Shachar” Dakar. For the first time, we have an English language depiction of what it is like to be a Jew being thrown out of her home by Jews in the Jewish State.<\/p>\n