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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“</span></font><a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752768.html">Northern Arabs are not
being compensated for wartime losses as are Jews.</a>”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“<span class=t13>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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haifa</st1:place></st1:City>
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?</span><br>
<span class=t13>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.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=t13><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=t13><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>“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.’<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=t13><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> “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front-line businesses was out of date, but from the documents attached to the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.”</span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Full article:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752768.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752768.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Carl Nehme</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Doctoral Candidate</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Humans and Automation Lab (<a href="http://halab.mit.edu">http://halab.mit.edu</a>)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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