Last settlers leave Gaza

This is good, for Israel, the Palestinians and for regional stability.

NETZARIM, Gaza Strip - After nearly 40 years of occupation, Israel pulled its last settlers out of Gaza today, leaving this symbolic and devout settlement, surrounded on three sides by Palestinians, to the end.
Under an agreement with the army and the government, the roughly 1,000 residents here, plus another 300 or so who had come to support them, left their homes without resistance. After a prayer service and ceremony at the synagogue, the residents said they would go to Jerusalem, to pray at the Western Wall, and then move all together to the empty college dormitories of the University of Judea and Samaria, in Ariel, another Jewish settlement on the West Bank.

The Israelis will now bulldoze the settlers' ex-homes in Gaza. Initially, it seemed like just meanness not to leave them for the Palestinians. But the Palestinians said they didn't want them. Anyhow, now that the 9,000 settlers have left Gaza, that still leaves a quarter-million occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank. But a small step in the right direction.