By Jaswan Qiljous Khan Younis, April 12 – You don’t hear it often, but many of the older generation here speak with nostalgia for the time before 2005 when Israel removed all its soldiers and settlers from this territory. The authorities frown on such an attitude, of course; therefore only the boldest of the speakers share the sentiment out loud, the ones secure in their elderly status in a society that still harbors some reverence for the aged. Such recollections refer to multiple aspects of the contrast between then and now, but mainly the relative freedom of expression, the relative...