Regevim: ‘Demolish EU-funded illegal Arab settlements’

After Netanyahu orders to suspend diplomatic contact with EU, NGO calls to go a step further and stop rampant EU breach of law.

By Ari Yashar, INN
Illegal Arab construction funded by the EU

Illegal Arab construction funded by the EU – Regavim

Following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders on Sunday night to suspend diplomatic contact with the European Union (EU), an NGO has called to destroy the illegal Arab settlements funded by the EU.

Netanyahu’s orders were a response to the EU decision to label Jewish products from over the 1949 Armistice lines – Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The move is to be in affect until the Foreign Ministry completes a reassessment of ties with the EU vis-a-vis the political process with the Palestinian Arabs.

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The Regavim movement for Jewish land rights called on Netanyahu to go a step further, and enforce building laws by demolishing the illegal Arab buildings in Judea and Samaria that are funded directly by the EU.

Regavim noted how in recent years it has documented massive illegal Arab construction funded by the EU in Area C of Judea and Samaria, a group of regions defined in the 1994 Oslo Accords as being under full Israeli control.

According to official documents, since 2009 the EU has built hundreds of residential structures mostly in the environs of Ma’ale Adumim to the east of Jerusalem.

The EU has been funding illegal projects to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros as part of its support to the Palestinian Authority (PA), despite the fact that such construction is illegal both according to Israeli and international law, and breaches international agreements such as the Oslo Accords – which the EU is itself a signatory to.

“On the one hand the European Union is labeling Israeli products in a way that recalls dark periods of history, and on the other it is building illegally on an incredible scale, while continuing to hold Israel and its laws in contempt,” read a statement from Regavim.

“The hypocrisy is double here, and the time has come to stop it,” it continued. “The legal authorities must conduct clear and direct enforcement against the phenomenon.”

The EU labeling move has been strongly condemned by Israel, particularly as the EU has made no such move in roughly 200 other cases of territorial disputes worldwide, instead solely singling out the Jewish state.

Netanyahu’s new order specifically targets EU institutions, although diplomatic contact with member states of the EU continues on an individual basis.

 

November 30, 2015 | 13 Comments »

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  1. PLO terrorists castrated Israeli hostage in 1972 Munich Olympic attack
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/plo-terrorists-castrated-israeli-hostage-in-1972-olympic-attack/

    It is astounding that Israel has not assasinated Abbas for his part in these dastardly crimes.
    Here is the proper response to Abbas, to include his family, sons and tribes. they prosper while the wives and children of the Jewish hostages suffer in never ending pain. revenge should be taken on more than the direct players.

    Trump: You have to take out the terrorists’ families
    http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/Trump-You-have-to-take-out-the-terrorists-families-436064

    I completely agree with Trump even though the PC crowd will whine and wail. Instead of taking revenge, BB shakes his hand and allows him and his sons to get rich while the victims families suffer.

  2. bernard ross Said:

    BB, Yaalon, Rivlin and Erdan are incompetents, willful negligents Who are directly responsible for the current wave of revenge burnings and stabbings? Does anyone believe they will present any evidence which proves them wrong, liars, libelers, inciters to anti semitic murder?

    the following should not be forgotten, and how the investigation did not get the security cameras for days after jumping immediatley on a lynch mob bandwagon. Short memories regarding unanswered obvious fishy stories are what the corrupt rely upon to distract the suckers.

    “According to the Duma version, the attackers burnt one house, then saw that it was empty, and so they went to set fire to the next house. The second house is enclosed by a fence, and the windows are covered by a dense lattice; a firebomb cannot be hurled through the windows, and in any event it is very hard to reach the windows behind the fence. The arsonists had to go around the house, enter the yard, and place the firebombs through the lattice. According to the Duma version, the attackers entered the house, stood over the parents and did not let them leave until the flames engulfed the house. Only then did the arsonists run away from the village.

    “I can only say that when the arsonists are ultimately caught, we will get to hear a fascinating story of why they chose to navigate their way all the way into the middle of the village, and how they had time to set a house on fire, wait to find that it was empty, then walk around and enter another house and set it on fire, wait with the parents, spray graffiti in two places – including with a little design of a crown! – and then run away through the middle of the village with all the townspeople surely already up and on their feet seeing the flames and hearing the family’s cries. Something here is very fishy…”
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198961#.Vl8Y7HarTIU

  3. Duma arson gag order: Covering up a failure?

    Israel Democracy Institute argues media gag order not meant to protect investigation, but rather to hide state from scrutiny over ‘failure.’

    the investigation is following the wrong lead, given reports and unusual circumstances at the scene of the crime that would indicate the arson may have been an inside job committed by feuding residents of the Arab village. Israel has reportedly left investigation of the Arab village to the Palestinian Authority (PA), instead chasing the “Jewish terrorism” angle
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204290#.Vl8ShnarTIU
    the report would raise questions as to why the Arab village is apparently not cooperating with the investigation into the lethal arson, and also why the vital video evidence was not obtained by investigators days ago in a case that has caused a massive stir in Israel.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199019#.Vl8YNnarTIU

    Police Chief ‘very optimistic’ about catching Duma arsonists

    Acting Police Chief Bentzi Sau …. claims significant progress against ‘Jewish terror.’
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204285#.Vl8U9narTIU

    Is Sau a member of the BB, Yaalon, Rivlin, Erdan lynch mob that libeled Jewish settlers with murder with no evidence…. thus causing the current intifada of revenge burnings and stabbings? Is he part of a cover up to distract Israelis from seeing that BB, Yaalon, Rivlin and Erdan are incompetents, willful negligents Who are directly responsible for the current wave of revenge burnings and stabbings?

    Does anyone believe they will present any evidence which proves them wrong, liars, libelers, inciters to anti semitic murder?
    In the least they should all resign for incompetence of leadership and involuntary manslaughter.

  4. What I am curious of is WHO in the likud,BY and 2 religious parties forming the current coalition wish to continue the status quo at the MOunt and to continue to obstruct Jewish settlement in YS… other than BB?
    IN return for their perks and draft evasion what did the religious parties promise to BB… it doesnt look like they promised to support a right wing agenda at the Mount and in YS… and BB has never put such an agenda forth for their support.

  5. mar55 Said:

    I hope for Israel sake someone will take the bull by the horns and do what it is necessary.

    the more that BB is made transparent the less he will be able to fool folks and the less chance of him making the same moves he has been making. But there appears to be no one to his right that is capable of blocking his agenda which mainly consists of doing nothing, maintaining a status quo which the right who elected him wanted rid of.

  6. @ bernard ross:
    Bernard, I know you are usually right in these matters. This time I hope you are wrong. I have been waiting for so long to see anyone with what it takes to do something radical that will get the attention of the EU and the rest of the world. Not one government official from any country respect Obama. It is happening the same with BB.
    I hope for Israel sake someone will take the bull by the horns and do what it is necessary. Acting instead of words.

  7. Bear Klein Said:

    Crash, bang, boom, I hear the smashing of the illegal Pali houses!

    NO, you always get your hopes up when BB makes his announcements but later you are always disappointed.

  8. Following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders on Sunday night to suspend diplomatic contact with the European Union

    actually it only regards contacts in respect to the “peace process”. Its a red herring and will soon fade away.

    sometimes I wonder if the Israeli electorate is more foolish than the american electorate who voted a guy named hussein as their president after 911:

    Regavim noted how in recent years it has documented massive illegal Arab construction funded by the EU in Area C of Judea and Samaria, a group of regions defined in the 1994 Oslo Accords as being under full Israeli control.

    Yes but did Regavim and other Israelis, especially those who voted for BB, notice that
    this all went on under BB’s rule and continued after it was exposed the public. DUH??????????????????????????????

    Obviously BB colluded with the euros to keep it quiet…. that is why I say that all his “suspension of contacts” is ineffectual and meant for the consumption of those dummies who always buy his rhetoric and narratives and never notice that nothing happened.

  9. It is about time Israel do something to defend itself from all the LIES spread by the EU and NGO to build in the areas of Judea and Samaria as justification for the invented victim hood by the PA. Created by the criminal Arafat. A false narrative that has given the EU and excuse to constantly break the law to the detriment of the Jewish State. Enough is enough. Tell them to spend their money supporting the vermin arriving in their countries.

  10. Google Ramallah’s newest movie theater and see how Japan and Switzerland spent 38 million euros to build a 18 million euro movie theater that no one uses .The construction was done by Abbas’s sons and according to Jane Defense Journal these 2 parasites stole 20 million dollars .The theater is used for high level PLO planning and terrorist activities .Not one word from the EU . It’s time to destroy the 50 to 60 illegal buildings built with no permit and have become a beacon of terrorist training and weapons depot .How pathetic millions of Europeans are on the poverty line and their leaders spend hundreds of millions on Palestinian terrorism .

  11. Crash, bang, boom, I hear the smashing of the illegal Pali houses!

    While we are at it jail and deport terrorists. Deport their families and supporters plus blow up their houses.

    Land belonging to terrorist families shall be legally seeded to the Jewish Trust.

  12. Not going to happen. With unJews at the held demolitions apply only to Jewish homes, farms, Synagogues and more.