Tanya Reinhart comes down on the side of deja vu.
“But the bitter reality is that nothing has changed. The new ‘peace plans’ are no more real than the previous ones, and on the ground, the Palestinians are losing more of their land and are being pushed into smaller and smaller prison enclaves, surrounded by the new wall that Sharon’s government keeps constructing. On the day of the Sharm El-Sheikh summit Israeli sources announced that even the illegal outposts that Israel has committed to evacuate long ago will not be evacuated until ‘after implementation of the disengagement from the Gaza Strip’.”