It's time to see action in the field • It's time to start unlimited construction • We hope the tractors will storm the mountains and turn them into thriving communities • Opinion

• Construction in Judea and Samaria // Photo: Yonatan Shaul

Again this is not the right time for sovereignty. Again there are more important things on the agenda. Once again, historical justice and the determinations of facts on the ground that are so critical to the future of the State of Israel have been pushed aside in favor of agreements and applause in the capitals of the world. The promise of sovereignty has faded and is gone. We all already understood that. Now the question is what next?

Apparently, now the settlement in Judea and Samaria is in a more dangerous place than it was on the eve of sovereignty.

The message that emerges from this is negative, very negative. The State of Israel has been given the opportunity to recognize the territories of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. At least in some places. Initiate the move toward total consciousness. It did not happen. Now sitting are the leftists of our country, our new friends in the UAE and all the other peoples of the world who are following the developments and understand that the State of Israel has chosen, whatever the reasons may be, to give up.

If the State of Israel does not take a move that makes it clear that it is continuing the development and momentum of construction in the settlements, we will find ourselves paying big with the territories of Israel for peace, just like the old equation that Netanyahu allegedly changed.

Netanyahu promised us mountains and hills. The mountains of Samaria and the hills of Judea. So far none of this has happened. We did not even get the valley. While Washington took the trouble to make it clear that the issue was off the agenda, in Jerusalem Netanyahu insisted in a statement last Thursday that sovereignty had only been rejected, suspended. Again this is not the right time.

As residents of Israel, even if not equal rights, the eyes are on Jerusalem. As residents of Israel, we are tired of waiting. It's time. It's time to dump her and move on. It's time to see unlimited construction, it's time for the Civil Administration, which for now remains the sovereign in the field, not to convene once every six months to approve development and construction plans. It is time for the tractors and bulldozers to storm the mountains and hills and turn them into thriving and developing communities, like we have never seen before.

And one more thing: you should close one very significant corner. Blame opponents of the Trump plan as presented along the way for the business moving between innocence and malice. This is a superficial and unfair look. With the United Arab Emirates it is possible to negotiate and reach agreements, normalization and an equal valley - but with the settlers it is not possible?

All along the way it has been said that with the right repairs it will be possible to get going. All along it did not happen. At no point was it clarified what was actually going to be done in the field. All along the way there was talk and no deeds. Now the currency in which settlement should trade is deeds and deeds only. This is not the time for promises.



The writer is the head of the Beit El Council

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