The Israel pullout

Hearing Yoni Tidi (sp?) today on Hugh Hewitt's program today, I got a real sense of the trauma the abandonment of the settlement in Gaza. Being the descendant of people who were driven out of their homes in Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois I can understand how difficult this can be, especially when it's supported by your own leaders. But the example of the Mormon pioneers, shows that God will not give you everything you want at the cost of denying others their freedom of agency, but he will bless your efforts. Israel will persist. God has decreed it, but we can't say what trials it will have to undergo as it does so. God will make his people pass through a crucible, not to punish but to refine. They must seek him and humble themselves before him, and he will not fail them.