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  Gaza and Southern Israel: Dispatches from the New Frontier The Disengagement By Carolyn Horowitz Amacher, August 2005 Whenever I get blood taken, I tend to pinch the opposite arm in an attempt to distract from the pain. The sensation of self-inflicted pain feels much more bearable than the pain out of my control. Today I sat as on observer to a newspaper interview of an Israeli young woman – Hadar - who serves as JCC summer camp counselor from our ‘sister’ community of Hof Ashkelon in Southern Israel. As she began her first person account of the effects of the disengagement on her home – Kibbutz Karmia – just outside of Gaza, I found myself pinching myself harder and harder as she delved deeper into the dilemma she faces when she returns next week. Hadar said that upon her return home she faces an uncertain future. Uncertain as the geography has changed since her arrival to Orange County. Her Kibbutz sits just 5 Kilometers from Gaza which will now be part of a new “Pale...