Dang, you're right. All I have to go on are *checks notes* the words of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister at the time and one of the architects of the withdrawal plan:

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

They live in uniquely crowded conditions in refugee camps, in poverty and despair, in hotbeds of rising hatred with no hope on the horizon."

Silly me...