Posted on 12/15/2011 5:40:37 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Sunday In Israeli Knesset's legislative committee they postponed a vote on the outposts. This Sunday is when you can make a difference. Read on.
The battle for the rights of the 7000 young Israelis living in so-called outposts (young communities in Judea and Samaria which lack formal government approval for political reasons) is fierce in Israel.
European funded leftwing pro-Palestinian groups are doing their best to have these communities both delegitimized and decimated.
The Israeli public generally sympathizes with the communities, among other reasons due to the fact that deceased Israeli war heroes, known to every Israeli family, lived in these communities, and their widows and orphans still do.
Also, the future of the "outposts" is seen as a major component in Israel's ability to retain its precarious hold on historical, crucial locations in Judea and Samaria which overlook Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Ben-Gurion airport.
The tiny outpost communities have found themselves under attack in literally dozens of crippling court cases filed by European funded leftwing pro-Palestinian groups in Israel's High Court of Justice.
These have resulted in court orders for demolitions -- because the High Court generally speaking does not review evidence, such that if a Peace-Now sympathizer in a branch of government provides a letter supporting the pro-Palestinian petition, this letter would generally be taken as a fact and the community threatened by it will be given no opportunity to disprove any allegations against them in the letter.
..... Update: At the Sunday meeting of the Ministers' legislative committee, the hero of the day was, without a doubt, Hasbara minister and former Prisoner of Zion, Yuli Edelstein. A bill to save the outposts was brought to a vote.
The ministers -- all except Minister Edelstein -- agreed to postpone the vote till February. February??
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The Israeli public generally sympathizes with the communities, among other reasons due to the fact that deceased Israeli war heroes, known to every Israeli family, lived in these communities, and their widows and orphans still do.
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