THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 12, 1919 23
weisswitestak.
Resettlement Talk Angers Residents of Rafah Salient
its laundromat, its main
source of income, was
JERUSALEM (JTA) — abruptly halted. The set-
"We don't want the settlers tlement handles tons of
in the Rafah salient to live army laundry each week.
out of suitcases for the next
Such a precarious posi-
three years," says Meir tion has expectedly taken
Ben-Meir, the Israeli Water its toll of the morale of the
Commissioner and chair- 5,000-strong local popula-
man of the Interministerial tion. Their complaints focus
Committee on Settlement on a near total lack of con-
Deployment. "I met with tact with the government
them last month and they since the Camp David ac-
understand very well the cords were signed, and on
need to maintain a normal the fact that they must rely
life for the present and im- on the mass media to keep
mediate future," he said;
abreast of their future.
Three- years hence, if all
Settlement authorities
oes well and the peace are well aware of the Rafah
treaty with Egypt is even- population's discontent and
tually signed, the 15 Jewish a document published re-
settlements in the Rafah sa- cently by the World Zionist
lient, and one town-in-
Organization's Settlement
the-making (Yamit), will be Department cautioned that
handed over to the-Egyp- resettlement must be im-
tians and the settlers will plemented quickly, because
move back behind Israel's the "target population is
new/old border again.
angry, disappointed and full
With the treaty still to be of bitterness."
clinched, and the prospect of
These sentiments have
dismantling the settle- apparently been aggra-
ments naturally distasteful, vated by the gov-
the government has not ernment's continued
rushed to launch the process avoidance of the reset-
of winding-down. As Ben- tlement issue and the fu-
Meir implied, the fear is ture of the 1,200 families
that once the preparations in the Rafah salient.
for removal become appar- While certain plans have
ent, the settlers will begin mysteriously made their
to drift away of their own way into print, they meet
accord, unwilling to await . with vociferous reactions
the various new settlement on the part of the differ-
proposals that are being ent settlement
drafted for them.
authorities.
The imminent dis-
A prime example oc-
mantling of, the settle- curred recently when a plan
ments,however, is subtly devised by Agriculture
expressed in countless Minister Ariel Sharon to es-
ways. Monies destined tablish a regional center on
for the region are now the Gaza Strip was leaked to
generally restricted to the press. The plan caused
short-term loans. Plans raucous debate in the Knes-
for expansion and de- set. While reports in the
velopment have assumed Media — and reactions in
a minor key. Directives the government — have
stipulate that all new consistently referred to the
structures be collapsible center as the seed of a new
to ensure that resettle- city to replace Yamit,
ment will be carried out Ben-Meir firmly denied
with relative ease.'
that plans for a city are in
And recently, a high- the making.
ranking Defense Ministry
"The center will only in-
official cast a shadow on the clude those central services
immediate existence of one that the settlements in the
Rafah settlement, when Gaza Strip can't supply
credit previously given for themselves. There are no
Gur Hits Defense Ministry
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen.
Mordechai Gur, the former
Chief of Staff who officially
ended his military service
last week, charged that he
was not named to a reserve
post by the Ministry of De-
fense because of his criti-
cism of the Egyptian:Israeli
peace negotiations.
When Israeli soldiers and
officers end their military
service, they are usually as-
signed to a reserve unit or a
post for call-up during an
emergency'.
But Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman said that
specific reserve assign-
ments had not been givfin
to other retiring Chiefs of
Staff except for the late
David Elazar.
He said there was no need
for such an appointment
since the specific assign-
ment could be made when
an emergency occurs.
Gur contended, however,
plans for a city," he said,
dismissing the extensive
criticism.
Although the govern-
ment has not yet estab-
lished contact with poten-
tial settlement groups
about the proposed site and
many of the Rafah settlers
themselves have publicly
denounced the plan, the
government remains confi-
dent that the Rafah settlers
will prove responsive. If not,
it says, alternate groups
will readily move to the
region.
"Without settlers to set-
tle our borders, we won't
have borders," said
Ben-Meir. Matityahu
Drobless, co-chairman of
teh WZO's Settlement
Department, agreed, not-
ing that "there is no lack
of potential settlers."
, Drobless explained that
the economy of 11 of the
Rafah settlements is based
on greenhouses and it is
hoped that this will be con-
tinued at Pithat Shalom
where plans call for 70 per-
cent of the vegetables and
flowers- grown there to be
exported abroad.
"The task of the Settle-
ment Department is to
ensure that, in the event of
withdrawal, we won't lose
even one day of production,"
said Drobless. "Thus, we
plan to encourage the same
crops in the new region
which are presently being
grown in Rafah. The
settlers will move to the
new site only when they can
immediately resume prod-
uction, probably in two to
three years. In the mean-
time, they will continue
producing where they are."
The settlement
authorities, however, have
received as yet no assur-
ances that the settlers will
indeed comply with their
plans. Ben-Meir estimates
that approximately 'IL 3
million per family
($160,000) would be offered
as compensation to those
500 families in Rafah's ag-
ricultural settlements if
they decide to return to the
country's center and such a
number excludes the 700
families residing in Yamit.
"I doubt whether we have
the ability to provide such a
sum within a period of three
years," he observed.
Other less comprehen-
sive plans for the region
have been mentioned,
such as the Housing
Ministry's proposal to re-
settle Yamit residents in a
new city near Nitzana,
just inside the "green-
line." The future of this
plan, however, is also un-
certain. "The Yamit
people don't seem to be
interested in such a city,
claiming nothing we can
offer them could possibly
compensate them for
what they have built up
at Yamit," a high-ranking
official in the Housing
Ministry explained re-
cently.
Both the manner in which
the various plans have been
publicized, their abrupt dis-
appearance after appearing
in print and the apparent
failure to coordinate among
the different settlement
authorities, seem to point to
1.0.•••••=milloir
,
the lack of an all-
encompassing policy on the
future of the Rafah settlers.
Decisiveness on the issue
is needed not only for the
5,000 settlers of the region
themselves but for all of Is-
rael's citizens, for whom the
basic legitimacy of the set-
tlement ethos presently is
at stake.
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