Posted on 01/21/2012 11:02:07 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Recent demolitions of outposts are part of psychological warfare to prepare the public for mass expulsions, warns a Yesha leader.
Sarah Eliyash, deputy chairman of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha), said she is calling for an urgent conference of Yesha leaders to break off relations with the government as a response to the recent wave of demolitions of Jewish homes and the expulsion of families, including women and babies, in the middle of the night.
“We plan to break off all contact with Cabinet ministers and Knesset Members, the army and the Civil Lands Administration” as a response to the expulsions, she said. “We cannot give legitimacy to this absurd situation.”
Eliyash explained, “In the past few weeks, we have experienced a series of violent expulsions, and no one has reacted to it. The accumulative psychological effect is very dangerous and creates a norm that is accepted by the general public.
“We know that psychologists helped plan how to execute the expulsion of residents of Gush Katif [in 2005], and it is more than probable that the recent expulsions are a prelude to make it acceptable to the general public to abandon us.”
She compared what she called “barbaric vandalism” by the police and hired Arabs, evidenced by several videos, with Egypt during the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
The Netanyahu government’s promises, if accepted by the Palestinian Authority, would result in the expulsions of more than 100,000 Jews in large communities, some of them numbering well over 1,000 families...
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Help us (or me at least) understand: the Israeli government is forcibly removing Israelis from Israeli settlements in the West Bank?
Right now, just the outposts. According to this lady from the Yesha counsel, it’s going to become widespread and wholesale. In the interim, we must help those already evicted, such as those at Mitzpeh Avihai, a short walk from my house. In the interim we must also force a no-confidence vote ASAP and thereby take down this government and replace it with one that is not going to sell out.
I thought Israel was socialist enough that it re-houses these Israelis kicked out of the ceded territories. It’s not like a lot of places where being kicked out means nowhere to go unless you can find a charity willing to help.
These outposts are not “ceded” territories. People stay with friends and family. Gush Khatif was “ceded,” I suppose, and many of those displaced have never found permanent homes, despite the empty promises of successive governments. If they try wholesale evictions from Judah and Samariah, all hell will break loose.
Looks like they trusted the wrong people.
Bibi got elected by saying he was pro-mitnahalim. So did Sharon. Begin was supposed to be a hard-line right wing, not-one-incher. I’ve had it up to here with Likud and its lies. Ihud Leumi and Yisrael Beteinu have each got exactly one chance to leave the government and bring it down, and the clock is running.
Hmm. Sounds like maybe a prelude to “ceding” the outposts.
There’s no need for Israel to be that mushy, though if the outposts are in particular danger and difficult to defend the people there should be warned. They may voluntarily wish to move deeper into Israeli territory.
At Mitzpeh Avihai, they have no security fence, not even barbed wire. The people defend themselves, with guns and large dogs. At least one IDF soldier lives there. Surprisingly, the Arabs who live around them seem fairly friendly for the most part.
Arab Christians maybe? They are cool towards Jews, but usually do not give them grief, so I hear.
No. Muslims. But Mitzpeh Avihai is right next to the plush suburb of North Hebron. All the homes are new, the fields well irrigated and tended. Some really beautiful vineyards there. Since the Intifadas, there’s a high barbed wire fence between it and every Jewish place except Mitzpeh Avihai. but I think the strong religious hatred is more in the poorer areas, at least lately.
And so Israel is hauling Jewish families out of there... why? I agree it makes no sense. If these were flashpoints of dispute... but they are not.
To please Obama, so that he won’t be mad at Bibi for obstructing piece, and instead just be mad at him for not negotiating with Abbas, who won’t negotiate. Lunacy.
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