The “Gigantic Payment To Ra’am” Is Not So Gigantic

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Yom Reva’ee

Wednesday

26 Av 5781

August 4 2021

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .

The site of a missile strike in northern Israel a few minutes ago–and resulting fire.

According to the IDF spokesman, it is believed that Palestinian terrorists in southern Lebanon are responsible for 2 missiles that struck Israel this afternoon. Of course, they could not have been fired without the complicity of Hezbollah. The missiles struck just north of Kiryat Shmona (in precisely the area your humble servant traveled a few days ago). Firefighters are working to extinguish fires at this time.

Elsewhere, Palestinian arsonists were busy at Eviatar in Samaria overnight starting large fires around the community.

The daily Corona update . . .

5 more Israelis have died bringing the total to 6,497.

236 Israelis are hospitalized with 49 in critical condition on ventilators.

3,280 Israelis tested positive for Corona yesterday, brining to 884,933 the total number infected since the pandemic began.

3.34% of those tested yesterday tested positive.

Beginning this Sunday, August 8, these regulations will go into effect:

1. A green pass will be required to enter enclosed places.

2. Masks will also be required outside if one is in a crowd of 100 people or more.

3. Companies are “strongly advised” to have 50% of their employees working from home.

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4. Police will increase enforcement against violators of isolation and wearing of masks.

5.  Israelis will not be allowed to fly to red countries except in cases approved by the Exceptions Committee. A list of those red countries appeared on OneIsrael yesterday.

6. Israelis are asked to stop shaking hands, stop hugging and kissing, and to avoid any gatherings in a closed space that is not necessary.

The Coalition government sinks further into anti-Zionist moral slime . . .

Disgustingly, the government has submitted a proposed bill to the Knesset whose purpose is to make it easier to open investigations into the actions of our soldiers.

Knesset legislator Itamar Ben Gvir summed up our feelings here at OneIsrael exactly:

“Anyone who works to incriminate IDF soldiers harms soldiers who give their lives for the security of the state. Instead of giving back to soldiers who give their lives in operational activities for the state, they want to burden them with criminal investigations in order to tie their hands and give a reward for terrorism.”

TODAY’S BLOG:

The “Gigantic Payment To Ra’am” Is Not So Gigantic

For the last two days, Knesset opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been ranting about how the Coalition government has sold its soul to the devil by allocating 53 billion shekels to Mansour Abbas, the head of the anti-Zionist, Islamist Party, Ra’am.

Your humble servant has also come to the conclusion that the Coalition government has sold its soul to Mansour Abbas, but not in terms of the budget. 

Here’s a cursory look at why not.

The total Israel budget for this year is 185 billion shekels.

The Israeli-Arab sector is supposedly receiving a budget allocation of about 53 billion shekels (about 16.5 billion dollars) because of the demands of Abbas.

Of this 53 billion shekels:

30 billion is for a 5 year economic plan.  In other words, this is 6 billion a year. 

20 billion is for a 10 year infrastructure plan. In other words, this is 2 billion a year.

2.5 billion is for a 5 year “war” on crime and violence. In other words, this is 500 million a year.

For a total of 8.5 billion per year or about 3% of the total 185 billion budget. The Israeli-Arab sector supposedly championed by Mansour Abbas is not receiving a one time payout of 53 billion shekels.

A few points need to be made because this seems like a small allocation for a segment of the population that numbers slightly more than 20% of the total population.

However, we should divide the Israeli-Arab sector into two groups when discussing it.

The Druze (numbering about 145,000) communities, Circassian (numbering about 4000, Muslim but not really Arab) communities, and a very few Bedouin communities (numbering about 10,000) are in a group which pays fulfills its obligations for military or national service–and pays taxes. Generally speaking, their economic and infrastructure situation–while not on a par with Jewish communities–is not “so” lacking. They deserve government help.

However, many Israeli-Arabs (about 1.75 million–the vast majority of the Israeli-Arab population), especially most of the Bedouin in the Negev, refuse to serve in the military or perform national service, and pay little or no municipal taxes. The communities in this group have major economic and infrastructure difficulties. In your humble servant’s opinion, these communities deserve no help whatsoever.  

One other consideration: any 5 or 10 year plan in Israel is likely to be thrown out the window at the earliest opportunity particularly after every election.