Posted on 08/17/2023 1:36:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently submitted a decision proposal to transfer millions of shekels to Judea and Samaria to strengthen the region following the recent wave of terror attacks, Channel 12 reported on Thursday.
According to the report, to encourage Israelis to move to Judea and Samaria, Smotrich's proposal includes economic and social components that would make life in the region more attractive. However, diplomatic and security sources who saw the plan's details say it includes components that are beyond civil and are in the diplomatic realm as far as their scope. Among those components: Interior Ministry recognition of sites that are still in the process of recognition regarding grants, building a plan to resettle northern Samaria, demographic expansion of the southern Hebron Hills, Megillot, and Jordan Valley regions, and the evacuation of IDF camps for residences.
One of the plan's architects, Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Stock discussed the criticism of the plan and said it would not lead to diplomatic difficulties. She says the residents of Judea and Samaria are not second-class citizens, and just as the government strengthens the Gaza periphery after a security hardship, it should do the same in Judea and Samaria.
US State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel, during his daily briefing, mentioned the report and condemned the plan. "The expansion of settlements undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution. It incites tensions, and it further harms trust between the two parties. We strongly oppose...
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Put them all together and they spell STFU The thing that Foggy Bottoms will not do
The Two State Solution is dead. It never lived. The Moslems will never settle for a two state solution. Their only acceptable solution is one Moslem State with all the Jews and other nonMohammedans dead or kicked out, That is identical, actually, with the State Department’s holy Two State Solution.
Burn em out. It works pretty well these days.
Israel DOES need that demographic “defense in depth” that further settlement offers. Long term, it’s an existential necessity IMHO.
JEWS in JEWdea. Who’d a thunk it?
It’s a desert. We do have pine forests, but not there.
Maybe I can get my house back in Gush Katif.
Too bad it got destroyed.
Along with our farm and synagogue.
The reason people are reluctant is not the Arabs.
It’s a change in policy that results in everything you build getting taken away.
Do we have any folks with Israeli blood languishing in our nations’ jails that could volunteer to emigrate? For Epstein it’s too late.
Respectfully, we don’t want them.
Now if a bunch of Texans want to bail on Biden and convert, come on over. I’ll sharpen my flint knife and do it old school.
So your answer is ethnic cleansing or genocide. I guess that it is OK of the Israelis do it.
<< “The expansion of settlements undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution.” >>
Foggy Bottom has been spewing the exact same dreck for almost a half century. And they KNOW it’s dreck. Just going through the virtue signaling motions.
Half of “Tel Aviv” should move to the heartland of the Jewish nation (Judaea and Samaria districts) NOW!
of course, the traitor/erev rav government officials in Jeruslaem that have been blocking homes for Jewish people would have to be removed first
Here’s a clue. There were Jews returning to the Land of Israel before political Zionism, and some who never left. It’s a commandment for Jews to live in the Land of Israel regardless of who pretends to be sovereign. If, God forbid, secular Israelis commit suicide, religious Jews will still be there and others will return, as always.
“ So your answer is ethnic cleansing or genocide. I guess that it is OK of the Israelis do it.”
Are you really that dense? The Arabs (I refuse to call them “palestinian, there’s no such thing) have been calling for the extermination of every Jew in Israel since 1948.
“Peaceful coexistence” with them isn’t possible and it never will be.
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The Two-state Final Solution, failing to solve anything at all since 1937. LOL.
“Foggy Bottom has been spewing the exact same dreck for almost a half century.”
Picking up where the Mandate left off. In 1937, with the Arabs of the Mandate in full revolt and the “Grand Mufti” gone rogue, they proposed a “Jewish Homeland” reduced to Tel Aviv, West Jerusalem, and a corridor in between along the Baab ulWad road. Rejected by the rebelling Arabs, incredibly accepted by Ben Gurion, who was also ok with the partitioning of the Mandate to create TransJordan for the kingdom-less “King” Faisal Hussein.
I lived in three places in Judah and Samaria for a total of about 12 years. There never was a removal on as massive a scale as Gush Katif, but there were little retail demolitions and removals. For example, that neighborhood in Elazar, the Mitzpeh Avihai hilltop outpost next to the Harsina neighborhood in Kiryat Arba, and individual houses and buildings all over the place. The Arabs were never a problem. Although I’ve moved away to Nahariya in the North, I keep in touch with one close friend who is a devout Muslim, but also a gentle, decent soul.
Improving relations between Jews and Arabs is exactly WHY the Two State Final Solution must never be allowed to happen. It’s glorified Apartheid and ghetto-ization, which destroys vital connections between Jews and Arabs, who are very closely related, culturally, religiously, ethnically and linguistically. The less we see of each other, the easier it is for men of ill will to demonize and stir up trouble.
“Two states for two peoples” is so much racist blather. Enough, already.
Like it or not, there are also Arabs who live in that land. It is a pipe dream to think that they are going to go away.
Do you not see that calling for the expulsion or death of the Arabs you are acting just the same as the Arabs and only justifying their hatred of the Jews? Both sides need to accept that the land has a mixed Jewish/Arab population and neither side is going anywhere.
Did East Prussians need to go away?
Sometimes enough is enough.
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