'... For the sake of about half a percent of the population of the Gaza Strip, a Jewish half-percent, the lives of the remaining 99.5 percent were totally disrupted and destroyed - the fate of 1,300,000 people - while the entire world appeared to be focused on every one of the 8,000 Jews who are moving house! ...'

By Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz.