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To: sea_urchin who wrote (11461)	8/20/2005 4:57:37 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Re: The total compensation per family is expected to range between $200,000-$500,000, the ministers said. The advances, based on the value of lost homes and property as well as the number of years a family has lived in its settlement, will amount to one-third of the total sum, officials said.<< Which isn't bad, considering most came with nothing... ...and considering that, usually, the worth of real estate located in geopolitical powder kegs such as the Gaza Strip, Kabul, Kinshasa(Congo), Pristina(Kosovo), or Grozny(Chechnya) is ZILCH. But then, the land is deemed "holy" --I guess holiness calls for a premium.... Gus

To: sea_urchin who wrote (11461)	8/26/2005 6:08:24 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

OT > I suppose the settlers feel the more trouble they make, the more they get? Never a truer word was said in jest. haaretz.com >>On average, an evacuated family will receive $450,000. Those who lived there almost rent-free for two years will receive $150,000. Is there any better investment anywhere? The idea was that they would take the money, build a future and not have complaints. But the settlers knew they could squeeze more out of Ariel Sharon, so they invented the idea of a community. They now want to move en bloc so that the state will build the community for them. That is, they will get compensation, get rent and also get the state to do everything for them. Now the director general of the Prime Minister's Office, Ilan Cohen, is breaking new records. He is proposing to set up an exact copy of Neveh Dekalim with all its public institutions, so that all the functionaries will have jobs. This is a crying shame, a waste of public funds. In Ashkelon, there are 1,200 plots for houses next to the sea. There are suitable schools, roads and infrastructure. But that is not good enough for the lords of the land. The residents of Elei Sinai also want more. They have set up a tent city near Yad Mordechai, even though there are beautiful rental houses waiting for them, which they can use until their own homes are built. They also want to move en bloc, with all their institutions, and to have double-wide trailers, because that is what behooves the lords of the land.<<