{"id":383,"date":"2005-12-11T23:39:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T23:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/11\/this-is-a-must-read-about-the-abject-cruelty-of-jonathan-bassis-sela\/"},"modified":"2005-12-11T23:39:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T23:39:20","slug":"this-is-a-must-read-about-the-abject-cruelty-of-jonathan-bassis-sela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/11\/this-is-a-must-read-about-the-abject-cruelty-of-jonathan-bassis-sela\/","title":{"rendered":"This is A MUST READ About the Abject Cruelty of Jonathan Bassi&#8217;s SELA &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.katif.net\/index.php?id=1818&#038;sub=8\"><strong>Swapping &#8216;SELAH&#8217; Stories -by Rachel Saperstein<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dan and Aviva are refugees from Gush Katif. Both are devoutly religious, sensitive, quiet-spoken people. They lived down our block. Dan is studying to be a rabbi. Aviva is an assistant kindergarten teacher. <strong>When we arrived in Neve Dekalim they were expecting their second child, a daughter, and then we welcomed their third, a son. Today SELAH, the Disengagement Authority, is demanding a DNA test from the family to prove the children really are theirs. The couple must cover the cost of this expensive test. Dan and Aviva are from Ethiopia.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But let&#8217;s not say that prejudice is the reason for SELAH&#8217;s ludicrous request. <strong>Some Sephardi families are being put through the same shameful process. <\/strong>  We can be &#8216;proud&#8217; that SELAH is equally malevolent to all Gush Katif refugees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Debbie must prove that each of her six children went to school in Neve Dekalim uninterrupted to receive compensation for each of them.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The T&#8217;s are in a bind. Their children were with them during the three years they served in Mexico as emissaries of the government of Israel. Their children might not receive compensation for their years abroad.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swapping &#8216;SELAH&#8217; Stories -by Rachel Saperstein Excerpts: &#8220;Dan and Aviva are refugees from Gush Katif. Both are devoutly religious, sensitive, quiet-spoken people. They lived down our block. Dan is studying to be a rabbi. Aviva is an assistant kindergarten teacher. When we arrived in Neve Dekalim they were expecting their second child, a daughter, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}