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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