Before E Day

Israeli soldiers rest in the shade of a mock Jewish settlement codenamed 'Chicago', during an exercise near the Tseelim military base, in southern Israel's Negev desert, in this Tuesday, July 26, 2005 file photo. In the desert sands of southern Israel, a mock Arab town built to train Israeli soldiers to combat the Palestinian uprising has been temporarily rebranded as a Jewish settlement and troops are now practicing how to dislodge settlers who refuse to leave when Israel's Gaza withdrawal gets under way on Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)