Gordon Millar and the gaslighting on Gaza: why did Ariel Sharon really order Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and were his motivations really selfless enough to compel a "reward"?

I had yet another session of being gaslighted last night about Gordon Millar's Sacred Comment.  I must say if only the people of Gaza enjoyed the same ultra-protected status as The Comment, the world would be a far better place right now.  But apparently every word, every punctuation mark, and every judicious double spacing that Gordon inserted into his Well-Researched Masterpiece must be displayed in its proper place for his True Meaning, his Meaning of Peace and Enlightenment, to be at last divined by readers of breeding and discernment.  (Although whenever I've sought clarity on what this mysterious true meaning is, it turns out to be remarkably similar to what I assumed the meaning was anyway -  ie. "he was just trying to explain to you the good reasons why the poll showed the Israeli public want to mass-murder the entire population of Gaza, WHAT'S SO AWFUL ABOUT THAT JAMES", etc, etc, etc.)

It's quite true that Gordon's characterisation of the Palestinian population as undesirables who 'nobody wants' was only one of his supposedly excellent (and "Well-Researched"!) reasons for genocidal attitudes being so thoroughly understandable.  But there were only actually two others.  Those were -

1) That Hamas and Hezbollah launched an average of 845 rocket attacks against Israel in every year between 2001 and 2022 - but, as I pointed out in a previous post, those attacks in total seemingly caused a few dozen Israeli deaths, which is only a microscopic fraction of the number of Palestinians slaughtered in massacres perpetrated by Israel.

2) That Israel's only "reward" for forcibly removing settlers from Gaza in 2005 and "leaving the entire territory to the Palestinians" was for Hamas to fire 3,048 rockets into Israel over the subsequent three years.  But, as I pointed out in the previous post, those Hamas attacks caused relatively few deaths, and the disengagement from Gaza had still left the territory as an open-air prison under a total Israeli blockade, which meant that under international law Israel remained the occupying power.  I also pointed out that Ariel Sharon ordered the withdrawal as a bid to make his planned annexation of large swathes of the West Bank more acceptable to international opinion.

With the help of Wikipedia, I've now gone back and found contemporaneous statements from Israeli officials about the full reasons for leaving Gaza in 2005.  Those reasons fall into three broad categories, none of which have anything whatsoever to do with being kind to Palestinians -

Reason 1: To end the peace process and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state

"The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda." - Dov Weissglass, 2004

Reason 2: To prevent the ending of apartheid and the introduction of a "one man, one vote" democratic system in a country that might eventually have a Palestinian majority

"the danger the Palestinian womb posed to Israeli democracy" - Arnon Soffer

"[Ehud Olmert] expressed his certainty that the Israeli government would soon need to seriously and decisively address the "demographic issue"...He observed that an increasing number of Palestinians wanted to move from a fight against occupation to a fight for "one-man-one-vote"."

"We cannot hold on to Gaza forever. More than a million Palestinians live there and double their number with each generation." - Ariel Sharon, 2005

"We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography" - Shimon Peres, 2005

Reason 3: To move towards Israeli annexation of large parts of the West Bank

"At the same time, in the framework of the Disengagement Plan, Israel will strengthen its control over those same areas in the Land of Israel which will constitute an inseparable part of the State of Israel in any future agreement" - Ariel Sharon, 2003

So, according to Gordon Millar, Israelis were expecting Palestinians to "reward" them for nobly removing a small number of settlers from Gaza in pursuit of the selfless aims of destroying the peace process, preventing a Palestinian state, illegally confiscating a large chunk of Palestinian territory, and preventing Palestinians from having equal citizenship rights on a one person, one vote basis.  And when no "reward" was forthcoming, it was only natural for Israelis to start to get ratty and to want to exterminate the entire population of Gaza.

Sure, Gordon, sure.  There's no arguing with "research" of that quality.