T. Belman. I have yet to read that one of the carrots is construction permits. In any event, I disagree that if Arabs get permits so should Jews. I say Arabs shouldn’t get permits in Area C without them going through the planning process, just like the Jews do. But Jews have the right to live there. Arab construction should be limited to carefully defined areas and should be contingent on removal of all illegal construction.
Prominent MKs write to Defense Minister saying his plan to combat terror in Judea and Samaria leaves Jewish residents out in the cold.
The leaders of the Knesset’s Land of Israel Lobby have made their view clear to Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman that his new “carrot and stick” plan to combat terror in Judea and Samaria also damages the Jewish residents – and is unacceptable in its present form.
In an urgent letter to the Minister sent today (Thursday) by lobby Chairmen MKs Yoav Kish and Bezalel Smotrich, they first note that the general trend signified by the plan is positive.
Yet, they claim, the policy of giving “carrots”, especially construction permit benefits, solely to the Arab residents in Judea and Samaria will produce unacceptable gaps between the Arab and Jewish populations.
“As long as the Jewish population in Judea & Samaria continues to suffer freezes on construction that cause a ‘silent expulsion’ – this in addition to the high price payed in blood – it is unthinkable that ‘carrots’ in the form of construction plans will be granted exclusively to the Arab population,” the lobby chairmen wrote to Liberman.
“We can’t allow a situation where Israel launders illegal construction and ends up supporting the takeover plans of [PA Chairman] Mahmoud Abbas and his friends.”
Therefore, the lobby Chairmen demanded that the elements of the Defense Minister’s plan that include allowing illegal construction the purpose of which is the hostile takeover of Area C lands be removed from the plan immediately.
Davidi Perl, head of the Gush Etzion regional council, addressed the plan this morning, saying: “We welcome the decision by the Defense Minister to grant benefits to those elements in the Arab population that do not support terror, and to take harsh steps against those elements in the Arab population from which terrorists have come in the recent wave of terror.
“We will do whatever we can to assist the Defense Minister in implementing the plan as outlined. However, it’s important to make sure that at the same time the Jewish population in Judea and Samaria will receive permits to build in Area C. The government must adopt the Defense Minister’s strategy because only this way people will think twice about whether to go out to perpetrate a terror attack, or to go out to look for work in order to live quietly and peacefully.”
The grapevine says this plan is making possible the takeover of the PA either piecemeal or in whole if it continues to fall apart.
We will see how it plays out. Lieberman is trying something new with a large element perhaps of going back to the 1980s when Israel tried working local leaders. It did not work then.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-unveils-carrot-and-stick-policy-to-combat-terror-weaken-abbas/
LOL, terror works…. suggesting the arabs who could not build prior in C now get to build if they dont kill Jews. Their area is a & b where there are no jews… that is where they must build. Jews should be building in judea Samaria but BB and his new fig leaf are working out a situation where arabs get rewarded with rights for not killing jews… absolutely absurd. Normally it would be called extortion but since this is a clandestine policy to fool jews it is lauded as a plan to support if only a few permits can be squeezed out for some Jews. In the end its the same old same old of obstructing jews and letting arabs build… they facilitated the euros on the sly but now they can do it overtly… and jews will still be limited as to where they can live in Judea Samaria… the jewish homeland, not the muslim homeland. Jews are being swindled by sharp con artists.
so, what did jews get for not killing muslims?
Looks to me like they will still be restricted in building in the homeland specifically designated in international treaties and law as ….. wait for it…. the Jewish homeland… and NOT the muslim homeland.
Its the DM’s job to destroy terrorists not to pay them off with ransom money or ransom permits. Instead of destroying terrorists the great new DM is ending up giving permits. Just destroy the terrorists without giving them permits and INSTEAD give Jews permits to build in C
this is becoming the theatre of the absurd.
really, it appears that the jews have been fooled into begging for equality with the muslims in their own homeland. Perhaps BB will give it to them, as long as he can continue to give permits to arabs……. perhaps he will give permits within the jew ghetto euro designated boundaries while in exchange for letting the arabs build in C. smart, the peanut shell game. He will give the jews what they already had but give new benefits and building bonuses to the muslims for their homeland in Judea Samaria…. this needs a distraction because fools might notice what happened.
first he appointed yaalon to advance his agenda obstructing the Jews in YS and now it is Liberman. All this smoke and mirrors does nothing to advance Jews… its always about advancing the anti semites who teach their toddlers that Jews are sons of apes and pigs. All red herring distractions to stall Jewish demands that he do something for Jews in Judea samaria…. so true to form he comes up with an idea that does something for arabs
call me a skeptical cynic but I must speculate on these recents “recurring” incidents of investigations of BB, which then fizzle out. As he has brilliantly stalled the advancemnat of Jews to settle in their full homeland for so long I must wonder whether he has found a brilliant reverse psychology of red herringdistractions. Could it go like this: Manny(mandebilt) we need a new tactic to distract folks how about you distract them with an investigation of me that fizzles? After all, manny never noticed Yaalons crimes but every day he has some trivial investigation that goes nowhere….. when something works con artists use it again.
It works to distract folks from “errors” of ommision as well as those of commission. So what is going on that BB would like to see disappear? Protests at the MOunt led to Duma. Here we have muslim terrorism leading to muslim building permits, in a round about way…… if you stop terrorising us we will give you a bonus (LOL) but really is is a way to give them something they never had before. They probably agreed this with obama and the euros.