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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (246360)	8/17/2005 1:43:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571418

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. Why are you reveling in their tragedy? I don't like these people. They are members of Likud and worse. But I know what they are experiencing is painful. For some, thirty years of their lives are gone. Their vision for a bigger Israel is gone. They were wrong to settle in Gaza but to laugh at their folly is just plain mean. 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....()* And who's fault is that? Not Israel's. If the US gov't is so stupid, who can criticize the people who benefit from its misguided generosity? Besides, $250,000 is peanuts to the people who are old or to the ones who have no job skills. The unemployment rate is high in Israel. $250K gives them 4-5 years tops to make the transition. They will not have an easy time of it.