Baruch KimmerlingThinkers

Political theater (n.) on ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the grandest scale: an evacuation with thousands of extras and endless Holocaust symbols, proving that if 7,000 settlers take all the state's might, 200,000 never can be moved.

Trauma (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be staged as national policy: a theatrical evacuation of a few thousand settlers proves to everyone that hundreds of thousands can never be moved.