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Jews visit demolished West Bank settlements for first time since pullout
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: settlers, disengagement 

Jews visited the destroyed West Bank settlements of Ganim and Kadim this week for the first time since the disengagement removed them from the map three years ago.

The visit began when the Glick family from Otniel, another West Bank settlement, decided to take a two-day tour of outposts in the northern West Bank. The tour had originally been intended to conclude with Homesh, another settlement evacuated during the disengagement, where there has been a continual Jewish presence in recent months.

But when Yehuda Glick arrived at Homesh with his wife and four children, they met up with the Goldmintzes, a family of five. The two families, along with some 10 other people, then decided to go on to Sa-Nur, the last of the four West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement. And once at Sa-Nur, they decided to complete the round of evacuated settlements by visiting Ganim and Kadim as well.
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The two settlements were a wasteland, Glick said, with little but the sewers to show they had ever been inhabited. But at Kadim, the visitors left a stone bearing the date and the following legend: "A first step toward bringing the Jews back home."

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      1.   It`s Palestinian Land. THAT is most important. 05:13  |  POP 29/08/08
      2.   WE WILL RETURN 05:34  |  Yakov 29/08/08
      3.   So is the area any better as a result? 05:43  |  David G 29/08/08
      4.   Johnboy`s last line rule validated with this article 09:44  |  BBSNews 29/08/08
      5.   It`s Jewish Land And We Will Never Give Up 09:58  |  Yishai Kohen 29/08/08
      6.   Illegal Settlers Sorrow Earns Little or No Sympathy 10:56  |  Johan Odin 29/08/08
      7.   Palestinians visit demolished Arab village: 1st time since 1948 11:48  |  Murray 29/08/08
      8.   Plenty land for Israeli Jews outside the Westbank 12:01  |  Sara 29/08/08
      9.   #5 12:10  |  Sara 29/08/08
      10.   Dusengagement 12:10  |  Hilda 29/08/08
      11.   These Jewish Communities Will Be Rebuilt... 12:17  |  Ben Israel 29/08/08
      12.   To Sarah no/5-What is wrong with 1967 borders? 13:23  |  Victor 29/08/08
      13.   Paid the Rent Yet? 15:09  |  Mark of Lewiston 29/08/08
      14.   #6 Johan Odin 15:10  |  Moshe 29/08/08
      15.   Hilda & Victor 15:23  |  BornFree&Equal 29/08/08
      16.   #6 Johan Odin 15:28  |  Moshe 29/08/08
      17.   #4;BBSNews, but the difference.... 15:44  |  Doc Holliday 29/08/08
      18.   Mark of Lewiston- The Jews stolen houses will be returned 15:57  |  JD 29/08/08
      19.   Jews visit demolished Yehuda and Shomron 16:15  |  Ralph 29/08/08
      20.   We wouldn`t need settlements... 16:21  |  Ze`ev 29/08/08
      21.   15 JD - Any Israeli Law? 16:26  |  Mark of Lewiston 29/08/08
      22.   Plenty land for Palestinians outside the Westbank 16:50  |  Igor 29/08/08
      23.   MORE OF THE SAME AND MORE TO COME:PIECE/INHERITANCE GIVING IS A 19:06  |  glenna 29/08/08
      24.   Ada boy Murray! Right on! 19:31  |  Palestinian Prince 29/08/08
      25.   Land 20:01  |  Tom Mclion 29/08/08
      26.   ..and each of those 500 villages had Hebrew 20:17  |  Jess Ghannam 29/08/08
      27.   Johan Odin 20:42  |  lady from USA 29/08/08
      28.   Murray 20:45  |  lady from USA 29/08/08
      29.   Sara 20:48  |  lady from USA 29/08/08
      30.   BornFree&Equal 20:54  |  lady from USA 29/08/08
      31.   How could Jews kick Jews out of their own homes? 20:59  |  lady from USA 29/08/08
      32.   It`s Called Rejecting Theft. 21:23  |  Gray 29/08/08
      33.   #8 Sara. "Palestinians" have 1,000 times our land mass to live in 22:50  |  Chaim 29/08/08
      34.   See it for yourself 22:52  |  RW 29/08/08
      35.   #22 Palestinian Prince 23:10  |  Mosher 29/08/08
      36.   #25 lady from the USA 23:15  |  Moshe 29/08/08
      37.   Israelis have the right to live wherever they choose to 23:19  |  RW 29/08/08
      38.   #26 Gray 23:21  |  Moshe 29/08/08
      39.   Murry & Pal. Prince The Salient Reality 23:49  |  Gray 29/08/08
      40.   Hello Moshe; The problems with #32 are: 00:23  |  Gray 30/08/08
      41.   do you hear yourselves?? 00:28  |  Space 30/08/08
      42.   It`s been estimated that settlers own/settle on 40 % land in the 00:31  |  lakshmi 30/08/08
      43.   Moshe - so many here agree with you 01:12  |  RW 30/08/08
      44.   Chaim (of fools?) And: They`ve-got-more-&-we-want-it" 01:32  |  Gray 30/08/08
      45.   32 Moshe - Sovereignty v Private Property 01:48  |  Mark of Lewiston 30/08/08
      46.   Left wing/right wing--who cares? 07:40  |  Ze`ev 30/08/08
      47.   Re: It`s Jewish Land And We Will Never Give Up 07:59  |  : ) 30/08/08
      48.   #46.... 08:11  |  Me 30/08/08
      49.   #29 Lady from USA 08:54  |  Sara 30/08/08
      50.   # 48: Me the idealist 09:16  |  Ze`ev 30/08/08
      51.   #46 Ze`ev 09:17  |  Space 30/08/08
      52.   lady from USA 10:28  |  Michael 30/08/08
      53.   for a moment I thought 12:15  |  gianf 30/08/08
      54.   Space 13:09  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      55.   :) 13:15  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      56.   timeline 13:18  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      57.   Gray 13:23  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      58.   All settlements are legal under God`s law 13:24  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      59.   Gray 13:30  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      60.   Why can Arabs live all over the place 13:36  |  lady from USA 30/08/08
      61.   #40 Gray 13:54  |  Moshe 30/08/08
      62.   Why were they allowed in? 14:21  |  Palestinian Brit 30/08/08
      63.   #40 Gray 14:43  |  Moshe 30/08/08
      64.   Israeli`s have the right to live anywhere? 14:45  |  Palestinian Brit 30/08/08
      65.   Samaria is part of the Jewish homeland! 15:56  |  Paul Henzen 30/08/08
      66.   #64 Palestinian Brit 17:17  |  Moshe 30/08/08
      67.   #16 Moshe re: Geneva Convention 17:18  |  Boycott 30/08/08
      68.   #16 Moshe once again Moshe-- save this time 19:03  |  Labhras 30/08/08
      69.   58 Lady in USA - If they Stay, Pay the Rent 20:06  |  Mark of Lewiston 30/08/08
      70.   62/64 Palestinian Brit - Corruption and Cronyism 20:25  |  Mark of Lewiston 30/08/08
      71.   #51 20:33  |  Ze`ev 30/08/08
      72.   And so the once Jewish inhabitants returned.....