Sunday, January 09, 2005

Tents (tense) City

Every day I drive past the Knesset on my way to work and normally there is some group or other camped outside the Knesset protesting something. For months now there has been a small sad looking tent city, shabbily flung together, put up by the homeless. I felt so sad everytime I drove past.

Last week it was pulled down to make way for a big group of settlers and their fancy tents. These poor settlers have quite a set-up with electricity, toilets, big tents, and food outlets. I hope we (the tax payers) are not paying to keep them there!

The Settlers go on and on about being forced from their homes, made homeless. They compare themselves to Jews in the Holocaust... The disengagement plan will give them new homes, without borders to cross, without putting the lives of their families and our soldiers at risk day in and day out!

It must be real cold out there this week for the true homeless. The government is offering the settlers a way better deal!