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“Four years ago, in response to an Arab demand to reopen the market, the attorney general’s office notified the Israeli Supreme Court that: 1) the Arabs no longer had any legal rights to the shuk and 2) the Israeli ‘trespassers’ would be evicted from the site. The Israel supreme court never ruled that the former market’s Jewish population must be expelled from their homes.
The reason behind the Attorney General’s decision can be summed up in his words: ‘The criminal must not be rewarded.’ The criminal, in this case, was not defined as the Arabs who murdered 67 Jews, decimated the Jewish Quarter, shot at Hebron Jews from the surrounding hills and killed Shalhavet Pass. Rather, the criminal, was defined as Hebron’s Jews, who had ‘usurped’ vacant buildings belonging to the State of Israel.”
“The Defense Minister delayed executing the expulsion order for over two years, due to security issues and other concerns. However, recently, following the successful expulsion of 10,000 Jews in Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron, the present attorney general, Manny Mazuz, has exerted tremendous pressure on Defense Minister Shaul Mufaz to execute the expulsion orders and evict Hebron’s families from the Mitzpe Shalhevet neighborhood. Most likely, Mofaz is under the mistaken impression that the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the structures must be evacuated. This is, as previously noted, not true. To the contrary, the easiest and most just solution, as recommended by the judges, is to lease the buildings to Hebron’s Jewish community.”
“Following issuance of an expulsion order, Hebron’s Jewish Community appealed to the courts, claiming private Jewish ownership of the property. An appeals committee of three judges ruled, two to one, that the land did legally belong to a private Jewish organization, but that the buildings legally fell within the jurisdiction of the Israeli government. Concurrently, two of the three judges ruled that the optimal solution to the problem was to lease the structures to Hebron’s Jewish community.”
“A Jewish-populated ‘Mitzpe Shalhevet neighborhood,’ filled with men, women and children, families dedicated to redeeming the Land of Israel for the Jewish people, living on one hundred percent Jewish-owned property, – this is the just response to Arab violence, blood-shed, theft, and destruction, whose goal is the annihilation of Israel.”
“In the words of Yitzhak Pass, Shalhevet’s father, ‘eviction of the Mitzpe Shalhevet neighborhood will be, for me, as if they killed my daughter a second time.'”
Will Shalhevet be murdered twice: once by Arabs and once by Jews?
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