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Gush Katif Refugees, Yosef Q. Israeli to Olmert, Bassi, Regime: “Tell Me lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies?”

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Ramon: Knesset Supports Convergence

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On Thursday, the head of Sela Disengagement Authority met with the director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office to evaluate the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria last August, and to assess the successes and failures of the evacuation.

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The above link was only placed here for the excerpt which validates this blog’s headline as well introducing the reports, rebuttals and commentary below. read more

Gush Katif Refugees: Gov’t, SELA Dancing on Our Sweat and Blood …

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Gush Katif Expellees Respond Angrily to Holiday Gifts From Disengagement Authority

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In recent days, former Gush Katif residents forcibly removed from their homes last summer received holiday packages from the Disengagement Authority, which was harshly criticized recently in a report by the state comptroller.

The package included a sapling from a Ganei Tal nursery and a Passover haggadah authored by former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.

“You really warmed my heart,” said Dan Amiel, formerly of Kfar Darom, in response to the gift. “You truly reminded me of the saplings of Gush Katif – of those that we planted the day that you uprooted us. It reminded us of those at the height of their blooming, filling the hothouses. And thanks for the Hagaddah – you truly reminded me of the feeling of exile. It will enable me to tell my children and grandchildren…how you abused us!!! How you uprooted women and children, flowers and trees, communities and collectives. Don’t worry, though, our children will remember – not like your children, who are leaving Israel – and they will return to Gaza, Khan Younis and N’vei Dekalim…” read more

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Gush Katif Refugees; Seven Months Later: MUST READ …

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Gush Katif: Seven Months Later, by Rachel Ginsberg

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What was to be a 10-day stay has turned into an odyssey of uncertainty whose provisional end will only be seen in another few months when the Zelingers and other evacuees from the community of Neve Dekalim will be settled in temporary quarters at Kibbutz Ein Tzurim. Five years down the line, the remnants of their community will be reunited in permanent housing near Kibbutz Amatzia in the sparsely populated Lachish region.

“People assume that after seven months, we’ve all gotten our lives back together, we’ve picked up our compensation checks and gone forward,” Dana says. “It’s not true. Almost no one has received compensation. Unemployment is rampant and savings are gone. No permanent housing solutions have been created yet. And those highly-touted ‘caravillas’ that some families are living in, which are really just prefab caravans with fancy red roofs, are also just temporary.” read more

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Olmert Regime: Yet Again; Deception, Lies, Smoke and Mirrors to Gush Katif Refugees …

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Another Blow to Gush Katif Expellees

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Some 60 families – still in Jerusalem hotels after their eviction from Gush Katif 7 months ago – are to be thrown out in three weeks, even though their future living arrangements are not guaranteed.

“We were all set to receive the keys to our new caravillas in Ein Tzurim,” said David Banjo, formerly of N’vei Dekalim, “when all of a sudden, we saw that the contracts they placed before us were different than the ones we had seen a week before. In addition to all the uncertainty and instability we have been living with for seven months, now we have to face deception by a government body. It is simply too much.” read more

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Requesting Pesach Visitors to Pressure the Government of Israel and the Pocketbooks of Israeli Hotels to Insure that Gush Katif Refugees are NOT Abandoned this Pesach …

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Received this email overnight from an activist. This author holds that this is a MUST READ and a MUST for Action.

Every Jew Deserves a Pesach, Even Jews from Gush Katif

Dear friends,

Today, while at the Jerusalem Conference at the (old Hyatt) Regency Hotel in Jerusalem, my friends and I had the opportunity to meet one of the Gush Katif mothers who lives there. She mentioned how worried all the Gush Katif families at the Regency and other hotels were, because they have all received EVICTION NOTICES. They have been told to vacate the premises (in different cases) between ten days and three weeks from now. Their caravans and caravillas are not yet ready. Nonetheless, they have been informed that they are being kicked out of their hotel rooms. They have nowhere to go. read more

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Sharon/Olmert Regime Retraining Courses for Gush Katif Refugees Apparently Yet Another Scam; The Refugees Have Not Been Paid for Months …

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Gaza Evacuees Protest Salary Failures

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Former Gush Katif settlers say they have yet to receive promised salaries while attending conversion courses for other professions; staff at Employment Service refuses to speak to demonstrators.

Dozens of former Gush Katif settlers, studying at a special training center for evacuees, protested Sunday at the offices of the Employment Service Office in Ashkelon against the failure to transfer their salaries in recent months and against the cancellation of professional training courses which they were supposed to take. read more

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Sharon/Olmert Regime Doesn’t Let Up for an Instant on Gush Katif Refugees …

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Gush Katif Refugee Says Gov’t Obstacles Remain

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Anita Tucker, an American immigrant who was forcibly evicted from her home in the Gush Katif town of Netzer Hazani says that despite the Comptroller’s Report on the government’s mistreatment of the Jewish refugees, obstacles remain in place embittering the lives of former Gaza residents.

“The lawyers tell us that the government’s representatives have now insisted that their own essayers, who had come into Gush Katif weeks before our expulsion to essay our homes, must now lower the figures they presented (which were based on what they saw and measured on our homes in Gush Katif then) because they are apparently disturbed by the fact that their figures are too similar to the figures presented by the private essayers that we each had privately hired before the expulsion,” Tucker writes. read more

Author Miriam Adahan On The Gush Katif Expulsion and It’s Refugees …

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With much thanks to and with permission from Miriam Adahan;

IMAGINE – THIS TIME 2006

By Miriam Adahan

It is March, 2006, seven months since the expulsion of some 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif. At that time, I wrote a piece called “Imagine,” decrying some of the tragic aspects of that terrible event. Now it is time for an update:

Imagine that 7 months ago, you lived among proud, hard-working people with zero unemployment, which brought in $2 billion a year, and that now you live in a world where 85% of your neighbors are unemployed – all to satisfy the government’s desire to please Arab terrorists. read more

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Gush Katif Refugees Hope to Build and Re-Unify in Lachish …

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Gush Katif Expellees to Build Gush Lachish

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A new Gush Katif – “Katif Bloc of Settlements” – is to arise in the Lachish area, east of the Be’er Sheva-Kiryat Gat area, west of Hevron. It will be built mainly by former residents of Gush Katif.

Five new communities are scheduled to be built along a north-south 15-kilometer range – though most of them are still very much in the planning stage. It could be anywhere from 2-4 years before all the permits and approvals are obtained and construction is completed. read more

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For the Gush Katif Refugees, the Nightmare Doesn’t End …

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Disengagement is Not Over: Nitzan is ’Ticking Social Time-Bomb’

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Nitzan, just north of Ashkelon, is the largest new temporary community of families that were uprooted from their homes in Gush Katif last summer in the framework of PM Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan. Over 300 families currently reside there.

The session was held today as a result of calls by nationalist-camp MKs, in response to the harsh report issued last week by the State Comptroller regarding the Disengagement. “The State and its institutions failed in their treatment of the expelled citizens of Gush Katif,” the detailed report concluded. State Comptroller and former Judge Micha Lindenstrauss determined that the Sela (Aid for the Expellees) Administration, the Prime Minister’s Office, the State Service Commission and the Finance Ministry were all at fault. read more