“Amazing Caring People”, MK Ariel Helping Gush Katif People Fight to Win Over Evil Regime

Gush Katif: Fighting, and Possibly Winning, on Two Fronts, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

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MKs Ariel and Yitzchaki hope their bill for a billion shekels in compensation-increases for the expellees will be brought up for a Knesset vote next week. Some residents are trying another route.

Most of the nearly 1,700 families thrown out of their homes in Gush Katif 16 months ago have still not received the promised financial compensation to help them rebuild their lives. The residents say matters are being held up not only by regular old-fashioned bureaucracy, but by the restrictiveness of the Evacuation-Compensation Law that was passed shortly before the expulsion. read more

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More Cruel, Vindictive Governmental Red-Tape Heaped Upon Gush Katif Expellees

Gush Katif Farmers Must Give Up Compensation To Receive Land

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The Cabinet decided Sunday to offer land to expelled Gush Katif farmers but only on condition that they renounce compensation for their former land and that the newly allocated farm be situated in the Negev or Galilee. After 15 months since being forced out of their communities, many Gush Katif farmers still are without permanent land for agriculture.

The farmers, many of whom are in their 60s, also must work the land themselves and may not rent it to others. read more

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Major U.S. Jewish Groups Turn Blind Eye, Deaf Ear to Their Brethren Formerly From Gush Katif…

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U.S. Jewish Groups Refuse Aid to Refugees, By Aaron Klein (WorldNetDaily.com)

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Mainstream American Jewish groups largely have refused to aid the thousands of Jews evacuated last summer from the Gaza Strip, the majority of whom, fifteen months later, are unemployed, and none of whom received permanent housing promised by the Israeli government, WND has learned.

The former Gaza residents have appealed for help multiple times to major Jewish organizations in the U.S. but say they were mostly rejected. read more

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Over One Year Later: Former Gush Katif Residents Still Wrapped in Senseless, Cruel Red Tape…

Red Tape [Undoubtedly Deliberate and Punitive] Keeps Gaza Evacuees From New Homes By Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)

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Based on the past year ‘s track record of compelled justification by virtue of presentation to the bureaucracy of decades of electric or phone bills, arbitrary and punitive compensation awards despite presentation of all papers and documents, attempts to compel the former Gush Katif residents to sign fraudulent documents in order to secure their ‘advances’, deliberate sequestion of the former Gush Katif residents from their belongings placed in moving containers and held ransom by the Regime, DNA testing to prove their children, etc., undoubtedly the former Gush Katif Residents are being subjected by the Regime to yet more deliberate, cruel, senseless and punitive red tape in their efforts to reestablish their lives. MB read more

Philanthropist Steps into Void Left By Regime’s Deliberate Failure to Compensate Gush Katif Refugee Families …

US Philanthropist Covers Grocery Debts of Gush Katif Expellees

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An anonymous American Jewish couple has covered the debts of hundreds of Gush Katif expellees, arranging to pay their outstanding grocery bills in a Nitzan mini-market belonging to Yossi Avitan.

Avitan reports the average family had a bill of NIS 5,000, telling reporters when shoppers came to the store; they were shocked to hear they no longer had a pending tab.

The identity of the philanthropist couple is not being revealed, but during the war in Lebanon the couple also purchased flack jackets and other supplies for soldiers, in addition to coming to the assistance of hospitalized victims of the war and others in need. read more

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Columnist Perpetuates Olmert’s “80% Received Full Compensation” False Myth …

Evacuee: I Should Have Blown Myself in Gush Katif

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“Nevertheless, some 80 percent of the evacuees have already received full compensation from the government.”

Commentary;

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This article seems like a caring, compassionate appraisal of the negative impact of last year’s expulsion upon families, upon husbands and wives, upon parents and off-spring. That is until one reaches this sentence;

“Nevertheless, some 80 percent of the evacuees have already received full compensation from the government.” read more

Regime Still Denying and Cheating Gush Katif Refugees Out of What is Theirs …

Who Gave the Order to Change Property Appraisals?, by Moti Sender

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Information received by the Legal Forum for Eretz Israel indicates that the Government Appraiser told external assessors hired to give their professional opinion on which to base refugees’ rights to compensation, that they should change their original reports so that the amount of compensation would be substantially reduced. “This gross intervention in assessors’ appraisals is very worrying”, wrote Attorney Yitzhak Meiron, one of the heads of the Legal Forum, to Ami Lindner, Chairman of the Expulsion Administration’s Eligibility Committee. read more

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


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

High Court, Regime Once Again Abrogate Their Sworn Responsibility to the People They Lead … Other Gush Katif Expellee News …

Court: Kassam Attacks No Basis for Relocating Expulsion Victims

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The Supreme Court Wednesday rejected an appeal from expulsion victims who demanded that the government provide them with housing that is free form Kassam rocket attacks. The justice said the government is obligated to provide compensation and housing, without taking responsibility for locating the former Gaza area residents in areas free from Kassam rocket attacks.

However, Justice Aharon Barak added that although the government does not have a legal obligation to relocate the victims, it should consider options other than the area of Karmiya, which has been besieged by the same rockets which beleaguered the residents before their expulsion from the Gaza region. “We have not ignored the dire state of the petitioners,” said Justice Barak. read more

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