Lileks has some thoughts on the Gaza pullout, and Cindy Sheehan.

I think many on the progressive left would not be troubled much if Israel just “went away,” somehow. If anything it would save them the trouble of defending a culture that got the West Bank and Gaza and continued to wage war. One suspects that they know that the militant elements of the Palestinian society will not be placated by anything less than a Jew-free Middle East, but that messy fact can be filed away with the many uncomfortable truths one absorbs to achieve the greater good....

... Incidentally, the speech where [Sheehan] complained about teaching her son that America was a good thing? It was taken from a rally for a lawyer convicted of helping the blank-eyed imp who helped engineer the first bombing of the WTC. The next guy who got up to speak was a defender of cop-killer St. Mumia. Then came the blind sheik’s lawyer. Lovely people. I’ve no doubt they all watched the TV footage of IDF soldiers removing settlers from Gaza, heard about the rocket attacks – unhelpful, really – and shrugged. It’s a start.