Even as Israel continues expanding settlements in the West Bank, it has begun to negotiate compensation for settlers in both Gaza and the West Bank who are willing to relocate to within Israel proper.
What the sidebar and photo has to do with the subject of the article, I’ll leave to Backspin to decide. (This is just too funny, btw.)
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Interesting that the government has had to cut back billions of shekels over the past few years from the budget, but somehow, and from somewhere, there is lots of money to give to ‘settlers’ who will be evacuated from their homes and businesses.
No one in the media, or especially the local business media, has bothered to ask these questions. Why senior citizens have had their pensions cut, but it’s a given that ‘tomorrow’ compensation will be handed out.
Democracy and those who are supposed to protect it is convenient only when the leftist policies are being carried out.
—josh · August 1st, 2004 at 5:53 am
#1: roughly 60% of israelis support the withdrawl, so as far as i’m concerned, democracy is being upheld
#2: senior pensions ARE a leftist program — they’re called SOCIAL BENEFITS for a reason — they’re SOCIALIST in nature
—mobius in israel · August 1st, 2004 at 6:21 am
Mobius,
Democracy can be upheld if there is a national referendum or vote in the Knesset on the “unilateral” withdrawal.
So far there has been neither.
Newspaper polls are not a valid equivalent.
As such, it is quite disturbing that the Government has begun to formulate a compensation program prior to official approval of the plan.
—Anon · August 1st, 2004 at 6:47 am
Mob,
I second the view on Israeli newspaper/media polls, which time and time again over the past 10 years, especially in the 11th hour, always lean too far left by about 10 pts.
While only a few months ago, the widespread claim was that ‘the vast majority’ of Israelis support the retreat plan, but thank goodness that Israelis are smart people, every day that goes by, the plan loses popularity as more info comes out?
I also know that many of my friends who support the plan, don’t know what’s in the plan, or realize the entire scope of it. When I try to explain to them what their media isn’t telling them, they refuse to accept my ‘preposterous’ claims, some of which include: rearming and retraining of the Palestinian Authority ‘police’, the gradual increase of Arab workers allowed in to ‘Israel’, guaranteed free-travel in security cordon between Gaza and elsewhere, etc… in other words nothing to do with ‘seperation’ and a lot to do with just evacuating Jews from their homes.
—josh · August 1st, 2004 at 9:03 am
show me the wordage of the actual plan please
—mobius in israel · August 1st, 2004 at 9:17 am
screw compensation. I say just move the wall to the green line and let them come inside it on their own dime if they want to
—Babylonian · August 1st, 2004 at 2:50 pm
‘Baby’,
like I said about ‘image’, but you don’t even care about Jews or Arabs.
Sick.
—josh · August 2nd, 2004 at 3:03 pm
‘Baby’,
what r u talking about? hello do u care about some one?
—Nadia 15 · August 8th, 2004 at 2:43 am