Poll: Few Israeli settlers will leave homes for cash
AP - 07.12.2007 10:12
Only a small minority of Israeli settlers would leave their West Bank homes voluntarily if the government paid them compensation, according to a poll published Friday. Some dovish Israeli lawmakers advocate offering cash compensation to settlers living outside Israel's West Bank separation barrier, land they say will be ceded to the Palestinians as part of any peace deal. Advocates of the plan, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, believe it will help avoid forced evacuations in the future. But Friday's poll indicated that few settlers would agree to leave. If the government offers them double the value of their property, 17 percent would leave and 76 percent would refuse, the poll said.
I was just wondering to myself....where are these "funds" to come from? From the government who has no money to pay teachers, university lecturers, to help the health funds pay for much needed cancer medication, or to fortify the homes of Sderot residents. Where is the money to come from? (shhh--maybe the European Union, the Saudis, the Americans or assorted others in whose intrest it is to create more rifts within Israeli society by pitting one Jew against another.) Yesha leaders who have proposed offerring the settlers who want to leave, more money than the government, only help to legitimize the idea. They would be better off questioning the source of these funds. They might be in for some surprises.
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