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View submission: Kibbutzim Questions- from a diaspora Jew...
First of all, in many of the places that were attacked, many/most of the residents in those destroyed homes are dead. Some of the communities don’t want to move forward with decisions affecting communal property until their people are returned. And things like the housing blocks on these kibbutzim are communal property.
Second of all, many communities spent most of the last 480 some days internally displaced.
Third of all, many of the buildings are being used as testimony sites for people to understand the full scope of what happened that day.
Fourth of all, there is some rebuilding happening within the Kibbutzim. Kfar Aza has a project going on repairing their least damaged section of young adult housing, basically a block away from the picture where the recent photo of Emily Damari in front of the home from where was taken.
Fifth of all, not everyone returning home would feel it as a “gift” if their homes were cleaned up, repaired, and whitewashed for them, with them having no say in what reminders of their ordeal remained. Not everyone would want a nice clean home to return to, with the further violation of other people going through their stuff and determining what to salvage and what to dispose of.
I’m guessing that the Kibbutzniks know their people and have made choices accordingly when possible.
Sixth of all, as a matter of perspective, how long after 9/11 did it take the US to clean up the WTC site? How long after that to agree on a plan for rebuilding and memorialization? How long after that for the actual activities to occur? Where did the money come from? Where should it have come from? How long did those processes take?
So, it’s important to remember that there’s lots of complicating factors here. But there’s also the very real “what you might want isn’t what everyone in that situation would want.”
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