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[Agios Amvrosios]

Refugees don't want compensation. We have plenty of money.

We want restitution o our homes. Today, I can pull out a cheque book and buy the whole island north and south cash.

Who wants compo. Compo is for vegamite drilling bludgers.

[brother]

o.k bıghead, but not everyone ıs as well off as you.

[PEACE]

You don't take compensation that's why you are poor!
Compensation is the equivalent of your properties price.So this is a replacement.

[Agios Amvrosios]

What are we going to do with negligable compensation offered for our seaside properties?...maybe we can buy a happy meal from McDonalds.

[Agios Amvrosios]

Billionaire offers to buy settler homes
From correspondents in Jerusalem
February 18, 2005
A BILLIONAIRE from the United Arab Emirates has offered to buy all settler homes in the Gaza Strip when they are evacuated later this year.

But the offer has so far been met with refusal, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today.

The billionaire, Mohammad Al-Abar, who met Sharon briefly yesterday, has offered $US56 million ($71 million) for homes at Gush Katif in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Israel's second television channel said.

Instead, the Government is standing by its decision last June to demolish the homes when it completes its pullout from Gaza later this year.

However it is considering keeping industrial and agricultural installations, the spokesman said.

[PEACE]

What are we going to do with negligable compensation offered for our seaside properties?...maybe we can buy a happy meal from McDonalds.

Where do you know that it will be negligable?
Also we are not sure that you are in group that will take compensation.
+ we don't know new plan's property regulation.But i don't expect so much changes.

[Othellos]

You don't take compensation that's why you are poor!
Compensation is the equivalent of your properties price.So this is a replacement.

Regarding the issue of the compensations in the event of a solution, I think that it will be extremely complicated to resolve successfully. There has been great scepticism about if the compensation schemes proposed in the Annan plan (no.5) could ever work. The best way to resolve the property issue is by trying to respect the rights of the real owners to the greatest possible extend, as this will greatly reduce the need for compensations which in any case should be at current market value. After all, the land where your ancestors lived for centuries can be a lot more more than just "property" that can be replaced at a price.

O.

[PEACE]

The best way to resolve the property issue is by trying to respect the rights of the real owners to the greatest possible extend, as this will greatly reduce the need for compensations which in any case should be at current market value.

May be you are right.But we should protect bi-zonality and political equity between communities.So if most of them returns back there should be political restrictions.

After all, the land where your ancestors lived for centuries can be a lot more more than just "property" that can be replaced at a price.

If we look from that point i agree with you.It's not easy to abandon it for a compensation where you have memories.

Cyprus Problem is %80 property problem.