Knesset Speaker Lights Hannukiah in Threatened Home

Arutz Sheva ^ | 27/12/11 | Gavriel Queenann

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Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) visited Beit El's threatened Ulpana neighborhood on Tuesday to light Hanukkah candles.

Rivlin was warmly received in the neighborhood by residents and their children and lit the final Hannukah lamp in a house slated for demolition in May 2012.

"I came to light on the last day of Hanukkah, to visit you, in a community the Prime Minister himself approved," Rivlin said. "We are a nation of laws, and no one is above the law. No person may sit on the land of another. But in this case the law does not go hand in hand with justice, and you do not solve one injustice by creating another injustice."

Rivlin added, "The people here are not criminals, are not thieves, and do not to deprive another of his land. They build homes at full price on behalf of the State of Israel, providing incentives and security for the country. They have lived here are over a decade."

"There was no rebellion in the Kingdom. This land was empty. Nobody paid any attention to ownership of land - including land owners themselves do not. Destruction of this neighborhood is not an acceptable to any moral human being," Rivlin said.

"I know how you have hard feelings," Rivlin said. "You are law abiding people and suddenly you find yourself accused and condemned as guilty. You came here innocently to settle this land legally. I believe there is a legal way to do justice for this place."

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