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Op-Ed: Who Knows Yitzhar?
Arutz Sheva ^ | 18/6/12 | Giulio Meotti

Posted on 06/17/2012 7:06:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

To give up the 5,000-square-kilometre “West Bank” - roughly 50 kilometres wide and 100 kilometres in length - would be to put Israel in a totally indefensible position by giving up military advantages in four critical areas.

Yitzhar is probably the most hated, headlined and demonized “settlement” in Samaria.

Only passionately convinced people would visit this Jewish town.

But anyone visiting it would also understand what would happen to Tel Aviv and Herzliya if, instead of Jews, the PLO-Hamas regime would be controlling Yitzhar.

From Yitzhar, located high up in the hills near Nablus, the Biblical city of Shechem, you can clearly see the entire Israeli coast. That’s why the site was chosen by the IDF to set up a Nahal community in 1983.

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At night, from their towns, you can see the lights from coastal cities of Ashkelon in the south and Hadera in the north. Nablus, the Arab city which Yitzhar and the other Jewish towns literally dominate, is a hot bed of jihadism and terrorism. Some 200 years ago Nablus acquired the nickname “Mountain of Fire” for the blazes its people set to stave off Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: frontline; samaria; strategic; yitzhar
Same could be said of Bat Ayin, imho.
1 posted on 06/17/2012 7:06:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Enough of this already! This land is all our land. It is all Israel, deal with it or get o.u.t.. There is no other solution, short of dismantling the Jewish State. That will never happen. HaShem has promised that He will not countenance such a thing. This small country belongs to the Jewish people. Is that such a bad thing?


2 posted on 06/17/2012 8:11:25 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees!)
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To: Eleutheria5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhar

From what I have read on Wiki they sound like a group of really cool, hardcore Yids!!!


3 posted on 06/17/2012 9:52:04 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

From Wiki: “The inhabitants of Yitzar have a reputation as being among the most extreme Israeli settlers and regularly clash with members of the Israeli security forces and local Palestinian civilians. The settlement is at the forefront of the settler movement’s so called “price tag” policy which calls for attacks against Palestinians in retaliation for actions of the Israeli government against West Bank settlements.[6]”

or more commonly in retaliation for attacks against Jews by Arabs. Of course, they’d leave that out.


4 posted on 06/17/2012 10:24:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Rather “convenient”, eh?


5 posted on 06/17/2012 11:28:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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6 posted on 06/18/2012 5:26:31 AM PDT by SJackson (As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
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To: Torahman

Amen.

The truth is the Truth.


7 posted on 06/18/2012 5:45:57 AM PDT by left that other site
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