[LCM Articles] Second-class compensation

[Carl Nehme]

"Northern Arabs are not <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752768.html>
being compensated for wartime losses as are Jews."

 

"Is a shop owner in Nahariya, who was forced to close his business during
the war, entitled to more compensation than the owner of a similar store in
Acre or the Haifa bay area, who had to close shop? Are lawyers and
accountants who were forced to close their offices in Kiryat Shmona or
Ma'alot eligible for higher compensation than that which will be given to
their colleagues in Rosh Pina or Safed?
According to the decisions taken by officials in the Finance Ministry during
the war, which were approved by the Knesset's Finance committee, the answer
to both questions is yes."

 

"no Arab communities are included on the full-compensation list even though
Arab towns and villages were in the range of the Katyushas and were hit by
them."

 

"One group, whose existence was recognized by arrangements existing long
before this war broke out, are those who have businesses in communities
described as being on the so-called confrontation or front line.'

 

 "One may have thought the list of front-line businesses was out of date,
but from the documents attached to the petition, it transpires that Finance
Minister Abraham Hirchson took the trouble of updating it during the war,
when the range of the new Katyusha rockets was known. Left off the list were
at least four Arab communities that were hit by them. A missile that fell in
Arab al-Aramshe took the lives of two people, one that fell in Fassouta
destroyed a house and injured one of its occupants, and others that fell in
Ma'ilia and Jish (Gush Halav) caused damage to property. Leaving these four
communities off the list did not keep Hirchson from adding five Jewish
communities, during the war, to the list: Eliad, Degania Bet, Har Odem,
Kabri and Safsufa - all located south of the Arab communities that were left
off the list."

 

 

Full article:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752768.html

 

Carl Nehme

Doctoral Candidate

Humans and Automation Lab (http://halab.mit.edu)

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

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