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Many years have gone by since the expulsion from Gush Katif and some people have forgotten or never heard about the role of the Yahadut Hatorah party in the expulsion of Gush Katif.
Now to be fair, it was not completely clear if the hatred of the Arab parties of Sharon, would have been forgotten if Yahadut Hatorah had not entered the Sharon Government and Sharon might have gotten the votes that he needed from them. But maybe not, because they did not trust him and it would be an embarrassment to the Arab parties to join a Sharon government.
The results of the Sharon government being kept alive are clear.
Many Jews were ruined financially and have not recovered till this very day. Synagogues were destroyed by the Arabs. Jewish graves were desecrated where the bodies of Jews that had died in the area were dug up for reburial.
The I.D.F. forced Jews to be immoral, participating in government endorsed robbery of their fellow Jews.
G-d's name was desecrated and parts of the holy land of Israel were given over to evil gentiles in violation of many Biblical commandments.
Terrorists took full control of Gaza and shot missiles that killed righteous Jews in other parts of Israel.
The Israeli government had to invade Gaza on a punishing expedition losing soldiers and then left.
The legitimacy of Jewish claims over all the land of Israel was weakened and the pressure to expel Jews from other parts of Israel rose.
The Gaza surrender enabled the capture later on, of Gilad Shilat, which in the end led to the release of a thousand terrorists for Shalit.
I am sure you could add to this list of disasters.
Now this is the history as reported by http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/56093.pdf
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Government and Politics
Overview
Israel is a parliamentary democracy in which the President is chief of state and the
Prime Minister is chief of government. The President, Moshe Katzav, is elected by the
unicameral parliament (the Knesset) for a seven-year term. The Prime Minister, Ariel
Sharon, is the leader of the Likud party with the most seats in parliament. The Israeli
political spectrum is highly fragmented, with small parties exercising disproportionate power
due to the low vote threshold for entry into parliament and the need for their numbers to form
coalition governments. National elections must be held at least every four years, but are
often held earlier due to difficulties in holding coalitions together. The average life span of
an Israeli government is 22 months. The peace process, the role of religion in the state, and
political scandals have caused coalitions to break apart or produced early elections.
As a result of the January 2003
national elections, 17 parties or blocs
are currently represented in the 120-
seat Knesset. Sharon’s first government was a coalition of the right wing
Likud, secularist Shinui, far-right National Union, and the orthodox National
Religious Party (NRP). Ministers from
National Union and NRP resigned or
were ousted because of their opposition
to Sharon’s plan to disengage (withdraw) from the Gaza Strip and four
northern West Bank settlements.
Shinui was forced out after it voted
against a budget to increase funding for
religious services and schools designed
to attract other religious parties to a new
coalition.
On January 10, 2005, Sharon
formed a new government to ensure
approval of his disengagement plan. Because a third (13 members) of his own Likud party
opposed disengagement, Sharon had to build a coalition large enough to overcome the loss
of their votes. The present coalition includes Likud, Labor, and the orthodox United Torah
Judaism. The government was narrowly approved by a vote of 58-56, only because
opposition leftist and Arab parties which favored disengagement abstained. The next
national election is scheduled to be held in November 2006, but many analysts predict an
early national election.
Parties in the Knesset
Seats Party
40 Likud
19 Labor/Meimad
15 Shinui
11 Shas
7 National Union
6 National Religious Party (NRP)
6 Meretz/Yahad
5 United Torah Judaism (UTJ)**
3 Am Ehad
3 Hadash/Ta’al
3 Nat’l. Democratic Assembly/Balad
2 United Arab List
* Elected as Yahad/Democratic Choice
**Elected as Agudat Yisrael, 3, Degel Hatorah, 2

In any case if the reasoning behind Yahadut Hatorah's support for the Sharon Government was a calculation that Sharon would have gotten Arab party support even without their participation, I would have expected that this would be the main line of argument used by Charedim to defend their actions. However, many of their prominent spokesman are not using this excuse. Instead they are saying that to defend their Torah institutions and way of life, it is legitimate for them to give support to expulsion governments.
I do not understand this outlook.
It says in Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 388:9 that all those who hand over Jews to {evil} Gentiles, whether their bodies or their money have no portion in the world to come.
See there in the same halacha where it is made clear that this sin is applicable even if the victims are not Charedi Jews.
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