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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/673794.html
State report: More than 1 in 3 Israeli children live in poverty
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent
The number of poor in Israel has risen sharply since 2000, with a
staggering 34.1 percent of children now living in poverty, according to
a report issued Monday by the National Insurance Institute.
A total of 1.58 million people now live in poverty in Israel, half a
million more than in 2000, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took
office. The number of poor children has reached 738,000, up from
714,000 last year and 482,000 in 2000.
The report shows that 24.1 percent of Israelis are currently living
under the poverty line, up from 18.8 percent in 2000.
The report, which covers the first half of 2005, reveals that there are
403,000 poor families in Israel, representing 20.5 percent of the
families in Israel - a figure that is up 9,000 families from last years
report. Almost half of these families include at least one wage earner.
During Sharon's tenure as prime minister, the number of poor Israelis
grew by 45 percent against an eight percent recorded growth in
population. The poverty line, defined as half the median disposable
income in Israel, has not changed by much in recent years. In 2000 it
was NIS 1,753 per person per month, and has only risen to 1,804 or
5,411 for a family of five.
MKs blast the government for new poverty statistics
The poverty report prompted sharp responses from within the political
establishment. In light of the report's findings, Meretz gathered the
25 signatures necessary to call the Knesset to a special debate,
despite its recess, to take place on Thursday.
Labor MK Yuli Tamir said that the poverty report "proves that the Bibi
[Netanyahu]-Olmert government has abandoned one-fourth of the public,
pushing it beneath the poverty line. The government's policy is turning
Israel into a third world nation, where the middle class practically
does not exist."
Likud sources said in response to the figures, "Only the Likud, under
the leadership of Netanyahu, who rescued Israel from collapse, can lead
the struggle to overcome poverty now that the national coffers have
been filled as a result of the economic policy."
Likud called on Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to pass the 2006
budget before elections in order to "give an immediate response to a
string of social issues."
MK Ophir Pines-Paz (Labor), said in response to the report, "Olmert is
deceiving the public, for instead of the plan he promised to fight
poverty, he made do with press conferences and PR visits to soup
kitchens. In the name of growth, Kadima and Likud are managing an
opaque economic policy that is crushing Israeli society and hurting the
middle class, many of whose members are approaching the poverty line."
MK Eli Yishai (Shas) said that the current government "turned poverty
into a lethal bacteria that paralyzes the immune system. Everyone is
saying what I've been screaming for three years. Attacking government
allowances is like disconnecting a patient from a respirator. The
government chose to destroy the poor instead of poverty."
Hadash-Ta'al Chairman MK Mohammad Barakah said that the government
"declared a war on the poor and the weak instead of on poverty. In
utter impudence, it robbed the remains of the allowances and
transferred money to the wealthy.
"Whoever behaves cruelly to another nation will eventually behave
cruelly to his own. The poor and the weak will pay the price of the
occupation and the settlements."
Attorney Yuval Elbashan (Labor), a social activist that helped draw up
Amir Peretz's plan for legal accessibility, said to Israel Radio, "The
social policy that was spearheaded by the rightist government in the
last five years has pushed the middle class under the poverty line.
This is an intentional policy to make Israel attractive to investors by
creating a cheap workforce. This is not a natural disaster or the hand
of fate or anything else, except for a policy intended to make the rich
richer and increase the poverty of the poor."
Meretz MK Zahava Gal-On said, "The government that threw so many people
into poverty must be thrown out by the public."
MK Haim Oron, also of Meretz said, "The numbers are terrible - a world
record in the poverty rate among developed nations, a world record in
the gap between the poor and the rich."
A spokesperson from the Association for Civil Rights said that the NII
report "proves that the economic policy of the government in recent
years, which included the cutting of pensions, the failure to raise the
minimum wage and the low wages of workers from the weaker sectors of
society, has harmed the basic right of Israeli citizens to live in
dignity."

 Guarda: fa raccolta fondi per il Keren Khayemet LeYisrael.
Spiacente, l'organizzazione razzista JNF ha pochissimo a che fare con
la lotta alla poverta', Israeliana e non.
Anzi, una grande minoranza di quei poveri probabilmente lo sono grazie
a questo:
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1690070,00.html
    The most telling of LeBor's details on Jewish methods is his
account of the quasi-legal subterfuge by which all confiscated land was
handed not to the state, of which Israeli Arabs were citizens, but to
an institution called the Jewish National Fund. One of the JNF's
founding articles held that property in its possession was the
inalienable property of the Jewish people. Thus Arabs could neither
appeal the decision nor apply for compensation. It was a racist
land-grab worthy of apartheid South Africa at its worst, and between
1948 and 1990 Israeli Arabs lost almost one million acres. Even in 1950
a Jewish journalist called it "wholesale robbery in legal guise".
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Cosi' Israele finisce come tutti i paesi dove e' passato il finto
socialismo: un disastro.
-Stefano

guise".
I coglioni esistono anche tra gli ebrei se e' per questo.
-Stefano