Naftali Bennett, YNET
The Ulpana neighborhood was legally acquired and constructed by the Israeli government in the 1990s. It looks like any typical neighborhood in Haifa or Gedera. It has 14 buildings and they house families with hundreds of children. Happy families.
In 2008 the Yesh Din organization claimed that a small part of the neighborhood was sold to its residents deceitfully by the cousin of the real owner, who bears the same name. A typical land dispute.
Of course, it wasn’t the Arab who petitioned but the organization. The strategy of left-wing organizations has changed – they lost all their support with the people of Israel, and therefore moved their struggle from the field of public opinion, where they are forgotten, to the field of the High Court of Justice, where they have advocates.
If such a land dispute had happened in Raanana or Jerusalem the petitioner would be required to prove his claims, and if they were found correct he would win compensation and the story would end. But Judea and Samaria isn’t Raanana or Jerusalem. For 45 years Israel is holding this area without imposing sovereignty on it, as it did in Gilo and Ramot in Jerusalem, the Western Wall and Golan Heights. And this is the essence of the problem.
Impose Israeli sovereignty
It would merit the National Camp, which is the decisive majority in the Israeli public, to focus on a serious demand to impose Israeli sovereignty on all the Israeli territories in Judea and Samaria (Territory C.) These territories include the Jordan Valley, Gush Etzion, northern Dead Sea, Ben Gurion Airport corridor, Ariel, Maaleh Adumim and all of Israeli settlement.
Some 350,000 Israelis live there compared to only 48,000 Arabs. We did this in the Golan Heights. We did this in the Gilo and Ramot neighborhoods. We did this for the Western Wall. And we succeeded. The world does not like the measure and does not recognize it, but the Israeli public sees these areas as its country.
From the moment that Israeli law is imposed there the petitions, the examinations and the solutions will be the same as in every other place in Israel. A dispute between neighbors will be heard in court and decided according to law. The address for this is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was elected as head of the National Camp. The time has come to do what is good for Israel.
@ yamit82:
I agree with Yamit82. Treat everyone like a Jew and the Jew haters will flee the light like the cockroaches that they are. Which politician has the balls? Haha!
@ CuriousAmerican:
You’ll have to develop a consistent, WORKING DEFINITION of “racist” first.
Did that already.
KACH was outlawed as “racist.”
Of course the banning had nothing to DO with race, and everything to do with politics.
The point here, though, is that the precedent exists.
To prison obviously.
But I wouldn’t offer banishment in lieu anyway.
I’d offer prison, PERIOD — and for any serious crime, that would mean solitary confinement.
— Solitary is important.
Arab culture is the matrix within which their special pathology thrives; it is by recurrent association with one another that they bring out the worst in each other.
By sending them to prison, you merely separate them from the broader society.
By keeping them in Solitary, however, you separate them from each other — and deny them that mutual emotional reinforcement.
Keep two drunks together and they’ll hold one another up — to keep from staggering & falling.
Keep those two drunks apart from one another, and. . . .
Actually I enjoyed Solitary. The quiet — the stillness was so welcome
— a pleasure, really.
It baffled the guards that I thrived on it; it was suppposed to drive me to desperation, to break me.
But I had no need for external reinforcement of who I was — as virtually all of the other inmates DID
— so, for me, a place without other people in it was
just another place.
Arab terrorists need that mutual shoring-up that they get from each other.
Send ’em to Solitary.
Good
Provided you equally draft the Haredim, agreed.
Provided you are just as strict with your fellow Jews
Again, if enforced fairly with both groups …
Agreed
A flag comes in under free speech. Can’t do that.
If you get rid of equally racist Israeli parties.
Agreed. Ban polygamy. But child allowances should be the same as for Jews.
Who would accept them? I know it is not your problem; but if they won’t accept them where are you going to send them?
Maybe! Would it include members of Kach and some right wing Jewish loonies as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tE4Y4_fU9M (Part 1)
Maybe
Agreed
You have to allow ethnic cultural expression.
The Arabs are as stubborn as you. They are your cousins. They would stay to spite you.
@ CuriousAmerican:
I would include them as citizens, draft them into the army. Tax them with strict inforcement, destroy their illegal structures and jail them for long terms for any subversive acts like showing a PLO flag, making their political parties illegal as racist and subversive. Ban polygamy and reduce child allowances to 1 child by only one wife. Offer banishment in-lieu of prison terms. Institute the death penalty for all acts of terror including those who actively supported them as well and confiscate all of their firearms. Eliminate Arabic as a national language equal to Hebrew as it is today and make the educational curricula standard with the State Hebrew one. We will cease supporting the Arabic cultural separateness.
You want to see massive opting out of citizenship and massive voluntary emigration? Just strictly enforce the existing laws and create a few more.
If you offer the 48,000 Arabs citizenship, then the annexation would be quite legal and no one could protest it.