Larry2:

... is that Israel continues to control Gaza. As many have pointed out, when the Israelis "withdrew" from Gaza it went from being the most densely populated occupied territory in the world to being the most densely populated prison in the world.

The Israelis still completely control the entirety of Gaza's border with the outside world. They even control Gaza's access to the sea. No one gets in, or out, of Gaza unless the Israelis permit it. And they send troops or missiles into Gaza whenever it suits them.

The withdrawal was an illusion for the benefit of the Western media, and a totally painless tradeoff to keeping huge swaths of the West Bank, which, unlike Gaza, is heavily occupied by Jewish "settlers." (Read: colonizers.)

then how do the "prisoners" manage to launch rockets?