Haaretz (Thursday): Rightist MKs protest plan to compensate settlers

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From Haaretz (Tel Aviv)
Dated Thursday June 10

Rightist MKs protest plan to compensate settlers
By Haaretz Service

The National Religious Party will quit the coalition within two weeks if the government plans to begin evacuating settlements in August, Nissan Slomiansky, chairman of the party's Knesset faction, said Thursday.
The National Security Council and the Prime Minister's Office proposed Wednesday that the government begin offering compensation in August to settlers wishing to leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements slated for evacuation.
The timetable for evacuation, which drew angry responses from right-wing politicians Thursday, proposes that people who have been living in the settlements slated for withdrawal since at least June 6 (when the cabinet passed the revised disengagement plan) would be able to leave their homes and collect compensation beginning in August.
Army Radio on Thursday quoted a senior source in the PMO as saying he told Slomiansky the evacuation proposal must be examined by government ministries before it can be implemented.

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1. BBC (Thursday): Gaza pullout could start early

From the BBC Online
Dated Thursday June 10

Gaza pullout could start early

Israel will offer compensation to Jewish settlers willing to leave Gaza from August this year, according to government plans reported on Thursday.
The cabinet has approved in principle Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip - but there will be a fresh vote at each stage.
The deadline for the 7,500 settlers to leave voluntarily is 1 September 2005, under the proposed timetable.
The Israeli army will then evacuate any remaining settlers by 15 September.
The plans are contained in a working document drawn up by Israel's National Security Council.

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