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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

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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Some Good News for One Group of Gush Katif Refugees, But Note Who Got Compensated First …

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Atzmona Evacuees Receive Keys to Kibbutz Shomriya

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A ceremony was held on Sunday evening at Kibbutz Shomriya in the Negev as the community’s veterans handed over their settlement to the Atzmona evacuees.

A total of 56 settler families that have been living in mobile homes near Netivot received the keys to their new homes, and are expected to move to the kibbutz in the coming days.

The kibbutz will become a religious settlement and will no longer be a part of the Kibbutz Artzi once the ex-Atzmona residents move in. read more

The Achievement Claims of Olmert, Sela for Gush Katif Refugees?

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Acting PM Olmert Convenes Ministerial Disengagement Committee

This story is newsworthy for it’s inaccuracies, distortions, blantant overstatement and it’s obvious media spin. If 1.3 Billion NIS has been disbursed, to whom has it been disbursed? It has not gone to the refugee families for they consistently report having received either nothing or a fraction of the promised compensation. MB

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The Gush Katif Refugees, Residents of Communities Surrounding Gaza: Unify, Join Together for Maximum Chaos ..

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Gaza Evacuees Vow ‘Total Chaos’

Kassam-Weary Residents Vow Change

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These two groups seem a natural for alliance. The Gush Katif Refugees, with their issues; no jobs, no farms, no compensation, no partial compensation, a substantial number them still homeless with no temporary or permanent solution, those with “temporary” solutions subject to nightly theft and looting, etc., and the residents of the towns bordering Gaza; the Kibbutzim, Ashkelon and others with their security issues both have been snookered by the government again and again over these past 7 months. These two groups seem a natural for creating a substantial mutually beneficial alliance to wreak havoc upon the Israeli government which has abrogated it’s governmental responsibilities to the Jewish people, the people that they are supposed to govern. MB read more

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