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Commentary;
Can anyone out there name any time or instance where an Israeli government kept a “deal” made with Yesha residents? Here are reactions of MK Uri Ariel and Baruch Marzel of Hevron;
MK Ariel (National Union) was not happy with the voluntary evacuation. “It will not bring about any positive results,” he said. “Any agreement in which the ‘reward’ is that the government agrees to un-freeze [some] construction in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem is not worthy of trust.”
Baruch Marzel of Hevron, head of the Jewish National Front organization, says that the Yesha Council has “not learned anything from previous agreements. The last agreement they made regarding outposts brought about the Disengagement from northern Shomron and Gaza, and this one is likely to bring about an even large withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.”
This author asks, does any one remember the “deals” regarding documented Jewish Property at Hevron’s Beit Shapira and Shalhevet neighborhood? MB
Small Neighborhood Destroyed in Exchange for Larger One, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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A new Jewish neighborhood in Yesha was nipped in the bud last night (Monday), with the consent of residents who hope to thus save other Jewish towns.
The outpost in question, known as Merom Ayalon, is located just to the northeast of Mevo Horon and just to the east of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. It is located just over the Green Line; in the Six Day War, when it was liberated from Jordanian control, Jordanian military plans were found to capture and destroy nearby Kibbutz Shaalvim.
Report: Yesha Council Evacuates Outpost Near Modi’in as Part of Deal
Jews Evacuate Outpost in Deal with Government
Settlers, Government Close to ‘Mini-Deal’, by Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)
Twenty people were living in 6-8 structures in the seven-year-old neighborhood left the site voluntarily late Monday night. They explained that they were ashamed of having taken this action, “but we did it in order to save other sites for Jewish settlement.” The evacuation was carried out following an agreement with the Defense Ministry, in exchange for permission to build new housing in the neighborhood’s well-established mother town of Mevo Horon, and more.
“This was a desecration of G-d’s Name,” one resident told NRG-Maariv, “but it is important to emphasize that it is being done with great pain and sorrow, and only to save other settlement spots.”