Compensate settlers for what?

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/439110.html

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"For what exactly should we be compensating the settlers who will be evacuated from Gaza? For the damage they caused the state for decades? For the scandalous economic price of their living in Gaza? For the blood needlessly spilled over them?

Most settled in the territories for the chance of cheap housing on tempting terms. Others went there out of messianic ideology. Some settled there legitimately, as it were, with government approval, while others did so through land-grabs. All knew ahead of time that the land they were settling was politically disputed and its future uncertain, so it is they who are responsible for the decision they took."

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"To those who are calling for empathy toward these settlers, we must say they do not deserve empathy since they never showed consideration for the feelings of others. There is not and never has been in the history of the state such a destructive and immoral enterprise as the settlement enterprise. From the start it was established to undermine any and every chance for a peace agreement and to erect a defensive barrier against any just solution.

It was born out of territorial greed and continued to criminally disinherit the Palestinians. The settlers settled on land they had stolen, or which was stolen for them; the harm inherent in their actions not only did not trouble them, but some even went out of their way to hurt their neighbors - and so there is no moral basis for compensating them."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Agreed. They assumed the risk by building on territory that wasn't

lawfully secured for their ownership and possession. If you build on a flood plain or on the sea front and your home is lost to the elements, the government doesn't give you a new free home or compensation.

[AndyTiedye]

2. If they offered that kind of compensation to Palestinians...

they could have bought off most of them for a lot less money (let alone blood, pain, hatred, etc).