That is how one might describe Gush Katif. It was early in the morning when I, along with forty-six other Christian Zionists, boarded an armored bus for the hour and fifteen minute ride from Jerusalem to this beautiful community of pioneers who have literally given their lives to “make the wilderness like Eden and the desert like the garden of the Lord.”

We all wore orange T-shirts and caps to identify with the people who chose orange for the color of their first flag in 1978. They chose orange because it is a combination of the yellow of the sun and the golden sand of the nearby beaches. To the people at Gush Katif, orange was a color that represented optimism and hope and that was what we wanted to give them.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Quartet for Middle East peace, which includes the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, should work to bring the three major regional actors -- Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan -- into the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“When you talk about some of the sensitive issues that are final status issues, the regional states are going to have to also be supportive of whatever solutions are found to those final status issues,” Rice told a group of journalists in Saudi Arabia June 21
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