122: Wartime Diaries - Datya Itzhaki

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In the summer of 2005, the government of Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. The roughly 8,000 residents of the 21 Jewish settlements within the Gaza Strip were forced to leave their homes and their communities, which – for decades – they had actually been encouraged and incentivized to inhabit.

The move brought the country to the brink of a civil war. This was especially palpable in the tense relations between the residents of Gush Katif (as the main block of Gaza settlements was known) and their neighbors from the other side of the fence — the largely left-leaning residents of the kibbutzim of Otef Azza, all the same kibbutzim that — eighteen years later — suffered most in the Hamas attack of October 7th.

Now, many of the former residents of the Gaza settlements who never stopped dreaming of returning to the sand dunes of the Strip feel at least partially vindicated. Had their communities not been dismantled back in 2005, they claim, the army would have still been in Gaza, and none of this calamity would have occurred. One such voice is that of 63-year-old Datya Itzhaki, who used to live in the Gush Katif settlement of Kfar Yam.

The end song is Imma Im Hayiti ("Mom, If I Could") by Hanan Ben Ari.

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0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now.
0:30.0	And you've been reading the headlines, Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel.
0:38.0	But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing. This stuff seems complicated and honestly
0:46.1	you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning,
0:50.3	without really knowing what you're talking about.
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1:00.0	They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom
1:06.5	captured soldiers and the history of Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise
1:16.9	and helps you understand Israel's present through understanding Israel's
1:20.5	history. So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines.
1:27.0	Find unpacking Israeli history wherever you get your podcasts. I said if my living my home will even save one life of a Jew, I'll go, but it won't. And we said the time after time, and unfortunately nobody were listening.
1:53.0	We were sure the situation in Gaza will be a lot worse
1:58.0	and we said it all along the time
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2:07.8	So as you know during these incredibly difficult days,
2:12.2	we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us.
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2:21.0	or postcards really, that try to capture slivers of life right now.
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