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To: tejek who wrote (246194)	8/17/2005 3:24:48 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571401

Re: They allowed themselves to be fooled into spending 30 years building a home for themselves and their families. I will continue to... ...delude myself into grieving them. Ted, you overlook the fact that most of those settlers were not homeless Americans, Frenchmen, Belgians, Brits,... who were given the opportunity to make it in Israel. Gush Katif and the other settlements are/were the redoubts of the most fanatical Zionists who were already rolling in it back in New York, London, Antwerp, you name it. They basically are a caprice --a spoiled brat's caprice. Besides, they won't be relocated empty-handed --courtesy of the US taxpayer: they were granted an average $250,000 incentive to buy a new "shack" in Tel Aviv --or Miami....() Gus () Gaza settlers get golden farewell By Martin Asser BBC News, Jerusalem As the hour of Israel's Gaza withdrawal plan arrives, the government agency created to administer the evacuation is giving one last big push to persuade Jewish settlers to leave quietly. The Disengagement Administration, known by its Hebrew acronym Sela, says it has already got a signed undertaking from 1,127 families to go without being removed by force by the police and army. That leaves another 600 or so households who have given no such promise. "Formally, there is no contact with these people," says Sela spokesman Haim Altman. "Informally, we are in contact with most... but it is very sensitive and the settlers we are talking to want total privacy." It is sensitive because what Sela is offering settlers, as an alternative to being dragged bodily from their homes, is a financial compensation package. One of the difficulties is that this financial package is aimed at people who see their settlements as the fulfilment of either divine or political destiny, to secure what they see as the whole "Land of Israel" for the Jewish people. Compensation calculation Leaving aside the ideological gap, there is little question of the generosity of the deal paid to evacuees, many of them beneficiaries of government subsidies for settling the land. An average family can expect to receive about $250,000 (£140,000) compensation, depending on house size, the number of children and length of residence in the occupied territories. On top of that there are removals expenses, two years' free rent, redundancy compensation and what Mr Altman calls a "bonus" of $30,000 if the family stays put in a community being established to house them. Farmers will receive an extra amount for leaving the land they have worked, that under a complex calculation could increase the sum to $400,000. [...] news.bbc.co.uk