Court Urges Substitute Evacuee Housing
Excerpts;
The High Court on Thursday urged the government to provide substitute housing for 21 former Gaza Strip families who abandoned their mobile homes in Kibbutz Karmiya after they were shelled by terrorists. The state, however, insisted it could not help because it would be unfair to other residents of the Gaza Strip periphery.
The court was hearing the families’ request for an interim injunction obliging the state to pay for their housing until a permanent solution for their safety was found.
The state has already decided to subsidize Kibbutz Karmiya’s construction of 50 safety rooms, each of which will be linked to one of the mobile homes in the neighborhood. However, it refuses to pay for alternative housing for the families while the safety rooms were being built.
“The contractor has already started to build the safety rooms,” said Attorney Orit Koren of the State Attorney’s Office. “He has run into a problem because of the lack of cooperation from some of the residents. We do not consider it our obligation to supply alternative housing for them.”
“The state … refuses to pay for alternative housing for the families while the safety rooms were being built.”
“… It refused to help them as a group for fear that it would open a Pandora’s box of demands for help from other families, not only Gaza evacuees but also permanent residents of the Gaza periphery who faced the same threat of Kassam rockets.”
Time and again, Supreme Court President Aharon Barak and Justice Edna Arbel tried to persuade the state to help the families. “These people have undergone a trauma,” Barak told Koren, referring to the disengagement plan and the loss of their original homes. “The question is, can we solve their problem?”
Koren said that the state would help the families on an individual basis if they had special problems. But it refused to help them as a group for fear that it would open a Pandora’s box of demands for help from other families, not only Gaza evacuees but also permanent residents of the Gaza periphery who faced the same threat of Kassam rockets.
Commentary;
These quotes from the above report illustrate the total cruelty and hard-heartedness of the Sharon/Olmert Regime and its Sela Office for all to see.
Since when is there parity or a “fairness” issue between the Gush Katif Refugees who have had everything they own stolen out from under them at legalized gunpoint by the Regime and regular residents? And why are the regular residents entitled to a piece of the action?
Israelis, try to retain and keep this in mind; if Chas V’Chalilla Olmert succeeds in his efforts to expell more Jews from Yehuda and the Shomron, it won’t be long before he gives in to Hamas demands for Tel Aviv. What will all of you Ramat Aviv Bet residents do when your homes are no longer secure against Kassams or against a further government expulsion followed by the same cruelty and heartlessness rendered your brethren because you hated them for their observance and didn’t care?
Remember; To the enemy; Jew is a Jew is a Jew. Get used to it! MB