Whenever talk of evacuating settlements starts, it's immediately
accompanied by the phrase "the painful price." Evacuation of
settlements, we have been habituated to believe, is synonymous
with "national pain" and "trauma." Yet why should this be so?
It's understandable, of course, that people who are uprooted
from their place of residence and who loved their home, will not
leave joyfully. It's never pleasant to move from a beloved place
to which we have grown accustomed to a new place. Not pleasant,
but not so terrible, either, especially when it's possible to
return to the place you came from not so long ago. True, it's
possible to believe that some of the settlers will experience
true grief, just as others will breathe a huge sigh of relief -
but it's a long way from here to turning the evacuation into an
object of national mourning.  In the meantime, not so much as a
potted plant has been evacuated, but we are already reading
heartrending articles about the settlers of Yamit - the victims
back then, in 19