Updates on Situation at Beit Shapira, Chevron … – Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Police Postpone Hebron Eviction Until Sunday

Court: IDF Has Until Monday to Remove Settlers From Hebron Home

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The High Court of Justice yesterday gave the police and the army the green light to evacuate three Jewish families from a building adjacent to the Avraham Avinu complex in downtown Hebron on Friday at 11 a.m.

Sitting on a cot in the upstairs room of the large three-story buiding, Tzipora Schlissel said she was praying for a miracle.

Their presence in the building was legal and the community had documents to prove it, she said. She accused the police and the courts of abusing the law because it preferred to uphold the rights of Arabs over Jews. As an Israeli citizen she had the right to rent an apartment and live in it, she said.

Analysis: Olmert’s Elusive Hebron Compromise [What “Compromise”, Olmert Knows Only Anger, Hate and Vindictiveness Towards Fellow Jews]

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The failure to reach a compromise yesterday with the Jewish leadership in Hebron over the disputed presence of three families in Beit Shapira underscored the almost total lack of dialogue between the Olmert government and the settlers.

Olmert is starting his official tenure as the most hated figure in the West Bank settlements. His intentions are clear: he means to remove at least a quarter of them to the “settlement blocs,” by force if necessary. What’s unclear is the majority that he commands for the implantation of his grand “convergence” plan. One party in his coalition, Shas, has already been exempted from supporting it. Many of the right-wing MKs already accused him in their speeches yesterday of planning to expel Jews without a Jewish majority. The split in Olmert’s Israel is very real right now, and the festive speeches yesterday about a Knesset that will unify the country already ring very hollow.

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