She lobbied against the Israeli withdrawal from its Gaza Strip settlements and compared Yonathan Bassi, the official Ariel Sharon appointed to oversee the withdrawal, to the kind of person in a Judenrat under Nazi control who wrote letters telling his community to prepare for deportation (to a concentration camp). The analogy was rebuffed by Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, as 'irresponsible, disrespectful and distorting history'. Unification of the land for her means, ultimately, all the land from 'the Nile to the Euphrates'. In her view, Israel's Peace Treaty with Egypt, and the restitution of the Sinai was a "tragic mistake".