Benyamin Netanyahu's face says it all at a press conference following his resignation as finance minister on Sunday in protest against the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (photo: AFP); Israeli border police enter the Tseelim military base in the Negev desert on Monday on their way to a training exercise in Jewish settlement evacuation. A mock Arab town built to train Israeli soldiers to combat the Palestinian uprising is rebranded as a Gaza settlement with troops practising how to dislodge militant settlers (photo: AP)

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