New National Mission: Employment for Expellees
Excerpts:
“An article on Katif.net describes the sorry situation:
‘Today, three months after the terrible expulsion, many of those who were thrown out of their homes have no home, no work, and no income. People who were used to getting up early in the morning to go to work, now find themselves walking aimlessly around, ashamed to look into their children’s eyes and tell them they have no money because for three months they have been living in hotel rooms or in temporary homes supplied by the government without a place of work or income… ‘”
“‘I don’t want gifts,’ the article quotes R, a veteran farmer from Gush Katif whose greenhouses and thriving enterprise were destroyed by the government. ‘I don’t want people collecting money for me. I only want what I deserve according to law. I want the Government of Israel not to rest until it sees that I am set up and am able to support my family without receiving help from various bodies.‘”
“Contrary to popular perception, the compensation monies that have been promised the homeless have not been paid to most of them. The Supreme Court recently ordered the government to pay advance payments of 50,000 shekels each, but these have not been forthcoming to most of those who are eligible.”
“In the temporary housing site of Nitzan, the problem is most blatant. ‘At least when they were in hotels,’ said one fellow evictee, ‘they didn’t have to pay for food or utilities. But now, with no income, many of them are literally facing a situation of having no money to buy food.‘”
Commentary:
The compensation monies promised to the Refugee families by Knesset approved law has somehow gotten lost as the government and it’s chief purveyor of evil, Bassi and his self-aggrandizing SELA continue to stonewall the evictees with all kinds of bogus bureaucratic redtape and roadblocks, like requiring them to produce decades of t’lushim or telephone bills to “prove their residence.”
But funny thing how the bucks show up for perks for the Eviction Police, to send them enmass on overseas junkets. MB