August 30, 2012
Nurit Greenger
This is a war
the Arabs are winning. Israel is being conquered with full approval of the
government of Israel.
In an interview
in the Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat on September 1, 2009 Fayyad made his
intentions very clear: “Many think that zone ‘C’ areas have become disputed
territories rather than occupied territories in the public consciousness. We
assert that these are Palestinian National Authority territories where the
state will be established.”
That means that
the Arabs disregard any and all agreements. They do not need to adhere to the
law and Israel ignores thier actions to her fatal detriment. That will not end
with just Area C land grab; from there to Tel-Aviv, as in the Galilee and Negev
the land grab is in full force, without any objection from Israel.
Why do you
think Israel has looked the other way on this issue for the last four years?
Yes, US President Obama! It is worth noting that for next two months Obama will
be afraid to offend Israel. Elections overrule his hostility toward Israel.
Therefore, this is a good time as ever for Israel to destroy ALL the Arab
illegal buildings, whether thye are in Judea, Samaria, Negev or Galilee.
Introduction:
It is widely
recognized that the post Jewish or unJewish cadres have usurped power, both in
Eretz Israel and Diaspora, and has driven the Jewish people into levels of
danger unknown since the Holocaust.
Those
conspirators either by deceit, money influence, sabotage and/or treason have
gained control of all functions of state and Diaspora communities leadership.
And also the media.
Under their
nefarious direction Jews have lost large portions of their Heritage to the
unJewish groups, who are also in partnership with the Islamic foes.
It is also well
known to the aware, that attempting to gain entrance to those closed circles,
with intent of performing corrections from within, is impossible.
This entire
structure of criminal nature sabotages any attempt to perform free elections of
representatives, judges and clean selection of commanders in Israel.
The present
aggregate, passing as leaders, do not defend the Jewish state. They cave to the
international community pressure that is in cahoots with Israel's enemy and
thus put Israel in a demise mode.
The Jewish
people are in terminal danger due to these criminals acts since and even before
the disastrous Oslo Agreements.
Correction is
overdue.
Naturally,
there will now be a clear option. The citizens will have to choose to either
remain part of the present failed unJewish system or, choose to have a new
Jewish governing system and officials.
This is a call
for a Jewish uprising, a call for a real change before we fall even shorter.
Each community
is to freely elect Council, which, in turn, would organize elections of
representatives to a New Jewish National Assembly.
Strict
screening of candidates will take place. If at all possible, it will be
required to block agent provocateurs and saboteurs, serving the unJewish
system, from penetrating the new organization. Members of the present or past
officialdom will be strictly prevented from membership.
Time to call
for the formation of a Temporary Volunteer Organizing Committee as a start.
For the
proposed Platform or Declaration, being drafted for consideration by the Jewish
National Assembly, please contact SHmuel HaLevi, Radio Free Israel, and a
Founding Member of the Volunteer Temporary Organizing Committee.
Time to say, we
will not take it any longer.
The government of Israel says NO to Migron;
the government of Israel says YES to Arab illegal building ALL OVER ISRAEL!
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Illegal Arab building defies Supreme Court ruling
By ARI BRIGGS
08/27/2012 23:44
The illegal “building intifada” being waged by the Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria has become the latest battleground for the radical Left in conjunction with foreign-funded Israeli so-called human rights NGO’s such as B’tselem and Bimkom.
Photo: REUTERS
The illegal “building intifada” being waged by the
Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria, (the West
Bank), has become the latest battleground for the radical Left in conjunction
with foreign-funded Israeli socalled human rights NGO’s such as B’tselem and
Bimkom.
This unlawful land theft is being carried out with the
full support of the EU, foreign aid organizations and the UN.
Under the Oslo Accords, Israel was allocated full
administrative and security control over Area C. Allocation of final
sovereignty in Area C was to be determined in negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap of 2002.
Instead, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam
Fayyad has sought to unilaterally extend the PA’s control over undeveloped
state lands within Area C in an attempt to pre-empt the outcome of any such
negotiations, or in the more likely scenario, do away with the need for them
completely.
Fayyad made his intentions very clear in an interview in
the Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat on September 1, 2009: “Many think that
zone ‘C’ areas have become disputed territories rather than occupied
territories in the public consciousness. We assert that these are Palestinian
National Authority territories where the state will be established.”
To achieve this objective, the construction of thousands
of illegal Arab structures has gathered pace all over Area C as the PA pursues
this policy of encouraging illegal land grabs, illegal outposts and building on
state lands.
Such activity is very evident in the South Hebron Hills,
in the area near the ancient Jewish town of Sussiya.
Arab shepherds from the nearby town of Yata, a
Palestinian Arab city of 80,000 in Area A, have created a new village there
called Khirbet Sussiya.
They claim that their families have lived on this land
for decades, if not centuries. Their struggle has become the cause célèbre of
the cadre of foreigners and locals wishing to harm Israel and its standing
worldwide through misrepresentations and outright lies.
IN TRUTH, this is just a matter of squatters illegally
trying to grab state lands. These illegal squatters will always be portrayed as
helpless, weak and vulnerable, but they are nothing of the sort. They all have
alternate, permanent homes in Yata and are encouraged by the PA to grab land.
The area occupied by the squatters has been state land
since the days of the Ottoman Empire. It has only ever served as grazing land
and the caves found there have only ever been used for temporary dwelling by
the shepherds for two weeks to a month a year during the grazing season.
Aerial photo archives prove that the squatters have not
lived there – or anywhere in the environs of Sussiya – for decades.
These squatters also falsely claim they have been forced
to build illegally because of the limited number of building permits approved
by the Civil Administration (CA). In fact, the CA has approved over 100 new
town plans for Area C in the past 10 years. A good example of these new town
plans is a village only five kilometers north of Sussiya, called Khirbet
Tawani.
However, the Palestinian Arabs have no interest in
applying for building permits anywhere in Area C, as this would be seen as
accepting Israel’s authority.
Building applications to the CA are only lodged in areas
where it is known that the CA will not approve them, thus skewing the number of
building refusals and giving rise to the false claim that the Arabs cannot get
building approvals in Area C, as in the much-bandied 94% statement used by
Israel’s detractors.
Micro-comparisons are continuously being made in articles
and letters in the media contrasting the Palestinians living in their tents and
tin sheds in Khibet Sussiya with the red roofs and “European villas” the Jews
have in Sussiya to support false claims of racism, discrimination and
colonialism (as if using the term “European villa” somehow proved this).
However anyone visiting the area (or for that matter any
competent Google Earth user) can readily see the impressive Arab homes (some
even with red roofs) in and around Hebron and throughout the South Hebron
hills.
Alleged Discrimination with regard to the sharing of
water in Area C is another issue constantly raised by Israel’s detractors and
pro-Palestinian NGO’s.
First, the squatters complain that their illegal
structures are not connected to the water system. They then bring in water
tanks (supplied by the PA) at a cost of over NIS 30 shekels per cubic meter of
water – compared to the NIS 5 per cubic meter paid by Israelis and legal
residents of Area C.
Of course, they don’t care to raise the fact that the PA
is buying this water from Israel at NIS 2.5 per cubic meter – so either someone
is making a huge mark-up at the squatters’ expense, or someone is manipulating
the figures to again make Israel look bad.
What you will never hear is that the village of Khirbet
Sussiya has been the subject of many rulings by Israel’s High Court of Justice,
including the latest one against the squatters on the June, 7, 2012, when the
Court upheld Regavim’s claims that these Palestinian Arabs have been living and
building illegally on state lands.
In this case, suddenly it seems it’s OK if Israel’s
Supreme Court rulings are ignored.
So why are NGOs, foreign governments and aid donors
pouring millions of dollars into Khirbet Sussiya? Why are they funding the
illegal building of structures by transient shepherds who have been found to be
squatters and ordered by the Supreme Court to move?
So-called Rabbis For Human Rights provides an answer very
similar to that of Prime Minister Fayyad:
“At first blush, it may seem that this is ‘only’ about
the threat to demolish the entire village of Sussiya, the homes of these simple
cave dwellers of the South Hebron Hills. However, the truth is that the results
will affect the fate of hundreds of Palestinian homes throughout the Occupied
Territories, perhaps thousands. The outcome may well have an effect on our
major appeal to return planning authority for Palestinian communities in Area C
to Palestinian hands.”
SO THERE you have it: proof of a concerted effort to
overturn the Oslo Accords, ignore Supreme Court rulings and force the Israeli
government to passively cede authority of Area C, acre by acre, to the PA.
Of course such land theft has consequences – and the
Courts are increasingly concurring with Regavim's submissions and ruling to
have such activity declared illegal and the structures built without any
approval demolished.
Those choosing to pit themselves against the law can
hardly complain when the law acts to curb their conduct.
The writer works for Regavim, an independent professional
research institute and private planning think tank.
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Written on July 20, 2012 at 2:13 pm by Ruth King
Let’s Have a Conversation About The Real Illegal Settlements: Ruth King
The late Shmuel Katz once admonished me for using the word “settlement” instead of town, village, borough, district, or community for those areas reclaimed by patriotic Jews in Judea and Samaria. He was right. The word “settlement” evokes temporary and makeshift and is now twinned with the word “ illegal” by the mendacious media and those who echo it.There are illegal settlements in Israel but the unreported story is that they are Arab settlements.
Although the destructive Israeli organizations that are obsessed with Arab claims get the most coverage, thanks to the organization Regavim (http://www.regavim.org.il/en) there is, in Israel an awakening to the real usurpers in Israel’s heartlands.
Regavim’s video “Did You Know?” details the burgeoning Arab settlements on Jewish land, illegal activity that goes unchallenged by a government that is swift to demolish the homes of Jews. Did you know that over 100,000 illegal Arab homes were built within the past few years? Did you know how the Bedouin of southern Israel work under the radar and continue illegal construction? Did you know that the cowboys of southern Israel are routinely threatened by criminal Arab elements? See the video!
Regavim does more than expose these problems. They have had impressive success in countering them.
1) Next to the Druze town Majdal Shams, without any authorization, construction has been going on in five different locations completely destroying hundreds of acres of a nature preserve lying at the foot of Mount Hermon. Heavy machinery, trucks and tractors were employed to excavate the mountain, pave roads and build houses.
At the Supreme Court session, the judges voiced their criticism of the authorities who did nothing to stop the construction until Regavim got involved. Now work has been halted in the area.
2) An illegal residential structure was built in Gib’a village, on a promontory, adjacent to the main road and looking out over it. In the letter that Regavim sent to the enforcement authorities it was noted that this structure presents a clear security hazard since it stands above a road where many Israeli cars travel. As a result of the letter, Civil Administration inspectors arrived with bulldozers and demolished the building to its foundations.
3) Following a petition submitted by Regavim, the District Court of Be’er Sheva ordered the demolition of tens of Bedouin houses that were built within the municipal boundary of Abu Basmah in the Negev. The Abu Basmah council has submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court, with a demand to cancel the ruling and a request to place a restraining order on the implementation of the District Court’s ruling. The Supreme Court instructed the State Attorney to join the deliberations that are taking place within the framework of the process.
Good for Regavim. May the organization continue to succeed and prosper.
Then there is the other overlooked illegal settlement within Israel, namely illegal Arab immigration.
Over 400,000 Arabs have entered Judea, Samaria and Gaza since the start of Oslo. Joseph Katz, in a 2009 article “Media in Silence About Illegal Arab Immigration” reported that these numbers are “based on statistics collected on the Allenby bridge and other connection points between Israel and Jordan….The statistics are based on the number of Arabs day workers entering, but not leaving Israel, published by the Israel Central Bureau for statistics during the Netanyahu administration and subsequently denied as ‘recording errors’ by the Barak administration. The original report claimed upwards of 400,000 known illegal immigrants in Israel since the start of Olso, ostensibly pushing the West Bank population from 1 million to 1.5 million Arabs.”
Just as the word “intransigent” was used ad nauseum to describe Israel’s refusal to commit national suicide, the word du jour is “illegal” pinned to everything Israel does in its national interest and self defense.
It’s high time to begin the conversation on what is really illegal in Israel.
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