scrambling to save the West Bank outpost of Amona — which is slated for demolition by the end of December — even if it means standing in opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Sunday they hope to present a bill to the Ministerial Legislative Committee which would retroactively legalize settler homes built on private Palestinian land, such as in Amona’s case, in exchange for granting compensation to the original land owners.
The Palestinian land owners would be given the option of an alternative plot of land close to their homes or financial compensation.
MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Bayit Yehudi) and MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) are spearheading this drive. They are putting the bill forward now, because they would like to see it come to a vote before the Knesset breaks for its summer recess.
“When it comes to Amona’s existence, the hourglass is slowly running out of time,” warned Moalem-Refaeli.
“By passing this bill, we can save this community from destruction and prevent a precedent that would harm other communities in Judea and Samaria,” she said.
Netanyahu has in the past opposed large scale legislative efforts to tackle the issue of unauthorized outposts and homes in the West Bank.
Politicians are hopeful that given the right wing composition of his coalition and the opposition of its members to the demolition of Amona, that Netanyahu might, in this case, take the legislative route to save the hilltop community.
But the drive to save Amona comes amid a renewed push to revive the peace process which has been frozen since April 2014.
The prime minister is under pressure from the European Union and the United States not to take steps to retro-actively legalize settler homes in the West Bank.
The bill explains that outposts like Amona, or the unauthorized homes in otherwise legal settlements were built in many cases with governmental support, including monetary grants. The families that built there homes there, in many cases, learned only later that they were living on private Palestinian property, the bill stated.
In some cases the government officials didn’t know, that the land in question was private Palestinian property and in other cases they believed that a solution could be found, the bill stated.
There is a growing belief among the settlement population that what should have been a normal technical process has been halted by political and diplomatic consideration that would not have been in play had their homes been located elsewhere, the bill stated.
It noted that many of the homes are located in areas that strategically important, particularly from a security perspective.
Amona was first built in 1995, on the edge of the Ofra settlement. It is home to some 40 families and is located in the Binyamin region of the West Bank.
On Thursday night the Campaign to Save Amona urged Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) to bring the legislation up for a debate and a vote.
“Ayelet, there is a clear majority to pass this law. If that happens, Amona will be saved,” they said.
Late Friday afternoon Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (Likud) said she spoke with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) about Amona. She was under the impression, Regev said, that he was doing his best to find an alternative path to save Amona that was not dependent on legislation.
Separately, MK Miki Zohar (Likud) has also drafted a bill that calls for a seven-year waiting period between the release of an administrative demolition order and its implementation.
Amona is famous for the violent clashes that occurred there in 2006 between security forces and the settlers when the IDF came to raze nine permanent illegally built homes.
In 2014 the High Court of Justice ordered the demolition of the entire outpost, because it built without permits on land which belongs to private Palestinian.
The HCJ issued it’s ruling in response to a petition by the NGO Yesh Din, which represents 10 families from the nearby village of Silwad who claim ownership of the land.
Amona residents, however, have noted that it was also constructed with NIS 2.16 million from the Construction Ministry.
Amona residents have argued that the government gave them initiation approvals to build that were never finalized.
They have added that the government must now find a legal solution for them to remain in their homes.
@ bernard ross:
Love the irony of this!!!
Paris rejected Israeli software which could have stopped attack
Report claims anti-Israel boycott movement stopped France buying technology which could have prevented massacre.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211465
@ bernard ross:
oy
honeybee Said:
strange but true
@ honeybee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr04DJPjbAI
@ yamit82:
bernard ross Said:
That’s cause you’re both strange cats.
@ yamit82:
@ yamit82:
oddly, his friend did not find it as funny as us
@ bernard ross:
This is what I thought I was posting
http://www.desicomments.com/dc/11/28611/28611.jpg
@ yamit82:
oy
yamit82 Said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwYMWPoTnto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOvcGolE5-k
Now for some music entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKVPj5QVZ8&a=mysGV_UCtik&playnext_from=ML
@ yamit82:
yes, I saw that in the link the first time… thats what I was laughing at.
honeybee Said:
LOL, I did it the old fashioned way… threw it all on a plate and ate it cold.. took 1 minute to prepare.
next time i will try yours
honeybee Said:
yes, an old technique tried and true that the Jews never use on their enemies. It doesnt matter what folks say… you just do what you want and stick to your story(explanation). E. G. Israel should annex YS throw out the scum and say “it belongs to us legally, historically and morally”…. and then let everyone talk and moan. NOt the exact analogy because Jews dont have one. War is dirty, when you find your enemy… all is fair. the problem is that even when Israel gets a real opportunity, to declare war and annihilate their enemies, they dont take it….. except in 67…. and look how well that worked on every level… until they decided to start giving it up with no reason or pressure.
yamit82 Said:
Heaven to Betsy must I teach you everything.!!!!!!
@ bernard ross:
http://s221.photobucket.com/user/lucyfan01/media/cross-eyed-cat.jpg.html
bernard ross Said:
Dice the chicken in chunks, take some mayonnaise and mix it with a little balsamic vinegar, garlic salt and oregano , toss with the chicken. Chicken salad , you can add pine nuts.
yamit82 Said:
LOLROFLMAO
@ honeybee:
Looks like it.
@ bernard ross:
They may bitch and moan, but when push comes to shove liberal Jews are still liberal Jews.
@ bernard ross:
@ yamit82:
Turkey coup = Reichstag.
honeybee Said:
I just had some wine to cut a greasy cold chicken i ate, it lifted,or lowered, my perspective.
yamit82 Said:
I sting !!!!!!!!! But genteelly.
bernard ross Said:
Very good Yankee Boy !!!!!!
@ yamit82:
@ honeybee:
Always room
@ honeybee:
honeybee Said:
Are you sure you dont mean Felafelan?
yamit82 Said:
Perhaps you can make room for depressed and saddened Apidae.
bernard ross Said:
Yes I understand “lite relief” even so I expect more from yamit82 fertile and fevered brain. Something Falstaffian.
bernard ross Said:
here’s what bothered the “woody allen crowd”
that is one bunch of sheltered feygeles.
In my life those are compliments… looks like those woody allens need to go home to mummy to have their noses wiped. they are an embarassment. Trump has great trust for jews in his dealings in business…. a great compliment, but he should not extend that trust to the backstabbing woody allen crowd.
In a choice between believing a woody allen Jew and trump I’ll pick trump…. especially since his daughter, son in law and grandchild are all folks he is proud to boast about. I never hung around with those types of Jews… their mothers used to carry a hanky to wipe their snotty noses.
I wonder where they have been living all their life?
@ yamit82:
whew… that wastnt a good marketing strategy for those patriots.
@ bernard ross:
I don’t think Idia has Patriots Producer Lockheed Martin, Raytheon
@ yamit82:
were you joking or is it true?
@ bernard ross:
Re: the Woody Allen Crowd: This Synagogue group plans to go to Israel and visit the grave of Yasser Arafat. 🙂 One of many ……it’s an Arab and christian itinerary more than a Jewish one. Can’t post here it’s a pdf format.
@ yamit82:
Is this the same system they are selling to india right now?
@ bernard ross:
Report said they shot American patriot missiles each cost $50K at a little drone? They never worked in the past and apparently still don’t Russian and Israeli SAM’s better and in the past the IAF jets have downed drones so why patriots?
We are beginning to look and sound like the Turkish coup keystone cops operation.
Lots of fishy details in this story which dont jibe with their prior fairy tales.
well gosh, no high court necessary…. just ask that whiz kid Mandebilt his opinion.
Looks like the “woody allen crowd” at the NYT dem club are going frantic looking for their straw to grasp. So many oy veys
yamit82 Said:
😛 😛 😛
yamit82 Said:
I thought they locked onto their targets????? such an expensive system…. but will it work?
@ yamit82:
Ha Pee Pee ever extracted any concessions in exchange for being cynically used as a prop by Hussein Obama?
Or has he accepted his role as a battered wife to be alternately abused and patronized?
Israeli militarism is an endless source of embarrassment for leftist Jews, who incur much grief from their anti-Semitic liberal brethren whenever the Israelis refuse to be obediently masochistic.
While a neutered and helpless Israel may not be as desirable as an extinct Israel, the Woody Allen crowd would consider it to be an enormous improvement.
@ bernard ross:
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa 😀
yamit82 Said:
you cant blame the con man for repeating his con until his sucker catches on.
@ honeybee:
We are an Oasis of tranquility here in Israel compared to USA and the rest of the world our problems seem quite tame in comparison and I’m not used to that reality so maybe I am in shock 😛
@ honeybee:
PP Nut&yoyo
some light relief 😛
@ bernard ross:
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
LOL, he keeps appointing folks to do his left wing dirty work so that he can still claim the votes of the suckers who want a right wing gov. BB keeps pointing the finger of guilt at his appointees and walks off clean. He doesnt even have to go to the high court because when HIS AG talks everyone listens and falls into line. BB tells his latest AG “just tell those fools that the high court will strike it down”…. and the rest cant figure out why they never get anything right wing out of this (LOL) “right wing” coalition. Once in a while he might need to go to the high court but then they also always do what he wants. the con man always keeps working his con until the sucker figures it out. The suckers still dont get it.
BB panics the suckers to vote for him or labor might get in and the minute he is in he is begging for labor to come in.
Meanwhile the AG that keeps everything in check for BB and is regularly starting new investigations…….. for that make busy look that beaurocrats love….. apparently he did not see anything amiss with Yaalon abusing his position of authority and power to obstruct the natural course of justice by serially declaring folks guilty before investigation starts… and defacto repeatedly instructing his military subordinates(investigators, prosecutors, judges)……so they would not forget to find the jewish victims guilty every step along. Somehow the genius puppet stooge Mandebilt was unable to see anything wrong with yaalons behavior…. no investigation into what would be a massive scandal in any democratic nation. Thats why we keep seeing so many BS investigations… red herrings to cover up Mandebilts negligence.
yamit82 Said:
Really yamit82, I thought you were the pudit’s foremost intellectual. Are you cracking up!!!!!
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Pee Pee Neatanyo yo is our worst enemy better a crook like Olmert… Thought I’d never have to say that Haaaaa
Nu? What did anyone expect from Netanyahu? I mean, honestly!
His AG found a way to crush the proposed law as well…
I said long ago that given half a chance “el fantastico” will destroy, if “left”… to his own devices, all of the Jewish locations everywhere.
You know the rest.