…that despite the conduct of the goons on the roof of a synagogue, the entire “disengagement” process has been an extraordinary display of democratic civility — a nation, bitterly torn over a policy and people being wrenched from their homes, that is obeying the rule of law nonetheless and doing so in the most moving possible fashion. The hugs, the tears…there’s something ineffably beautiful going on in Israel this week, and in my opinion, only those who come at the subject with an implacable hostility toward the Jewish state — or those on the anti-pullout side who believe that the pullout represents the end of Israel — could come to an opposing conclusion.