--- title: "[OT] Evacuating the Gaza strip" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/15/ot-evacuating-the-gaza-strip.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/15/ot-evacuating-the-gaza-strip.html" published: "2005-08-15T11:45:00" updated: "2005-08-15T11:45:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "On a purely non technical and unrelated note to anything, I'd like to take this moment to talk about how I feel when today Israel is starting to move people outside of their homes from the Gaza strip. I really don't…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # \[OT\] Evacuating the Gaza strip By Roy Osherove August 15, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published August 15, 2005; technical details may be outdated. On a purely non technical and unrelated note to anything, I'd like to take this moment to talk about how I feel when today Israel is starting to move people outside of their homes from the Gaza strip. I really don't like to talk politics on this blog, but this act is painful, hard to see, watch and hear and yet feels needed in a way. I don't claim to be someone who knows the full history between Israel and Palestine, because I don't. I only know what I learned by myself, my parents, society, TV and friends. That's enough to have my own little version of the truth I guess, but not the whole picture for sure. There are arguments each way to be heard until the end of time. I simply live here, in the center of Israel. It's hard for me to see this even though in a way I feel disconnected from it all and shielded because I don't live close enough to the "action". ![צילום: אבי כהן](https://osherove.com/img/ext/www.ynet.co.il_PicServer2_01082004_612062_morg1_a.jpg) Israel is doing something big these days. whether it's for good or bad - that remains to be seen. What **can** be said, however, is that today, more than ever, we live in a skewed, convoluted and painful reality of blood, terror, fear, brotherhood and normal life. Everyone wants this to be over. Everyone hates living like this. I have no idea how long this will  last. Hopefully, my children will be born to a better place. For now I will keep avoiding this issue on my blog and stick to technicalities. It's much easier to deal with, and even the most serious "problems" can be solved with enough will power and plain sense. ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Aug 17, 2005 ### [Installing Exchange overnight, oh my!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/17/installing-exchange-overnight-oh-my.html) - Aug 16, 2005 ### [\[OT\] Watch The Anchorman for the commentary](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/16/ot-watch-the-anchorman-for-the-commentary.html) - Aug 8, 2005 ### [Still alive, in Ireland.](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/8/still-alive-in-ireland.html) - Jul 28, 2005 ### [Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/28/microsoft-quotgenuine-advantagequot-cracked-in-24h.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/