Heads of authorities around the country are periodically debating whether it is right and economically or socially appropriate for them to promote the construction of a new neighborhood in their city.
For us, the heads of the authorities in Judea and Samaria, such a question is not on the table at all.
The core of our business is construction and development, in order to absorb as many families as possible who will immigrate to settle in Judea and Samaria, strengthen this historic region and bring it to prosperity and success.
Therefore, when the Supreme Planning Council (MTA), which is supposed to approve our construction plans, does not convene frequently - it hurts us. It hurts us substantially as well, on the important issue for which we were chosen to lead.Every day that passes without construction, hurts settlement.
"Construction is a test of the prime minister's leadership. Will he turn Israel into an American metropolis, or will he remain a proud and independent head of state? Continuing the freeze means suffocation. Blocking arteries on settlement. Strengthening settlement is in the best interests of the State of Israel "The freeze will not be compromised, we see it as crossing a red line. We will act with all the means at our disposal to prevent such a disaster
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This is what the CEO of the Yesha Council, Naftali Bennett, said to Prime Minister Netanyahu about 10 years ago, and this is what we are saying today to Prime Minister Bennett.
In fact, the original sin is that we are discriminated against in relation to the other authorities in the country. Every city-building plan (master plan) in "Little Israel" is promoted only through a professional channel of planning and approvals, until it is valid. In Judea and Samaria, we are required to have a chain of political approvals, starting with the planning itself, , Both for deposit and for validity, and ending with the publication of the plans for validity. Moreover, even after plans have been approved, a political approval is required for the marketing of the housing units. This is an abnormal condition that has been going on for too long, too long.
Mr. Prime Minister, you promised that the settlement would not be harmed. "Who knows if it was not at such a time that you came to the kingdom"? Therefore, until it brings about the cancellation of the situation in which the Prime Minister's approval is required for any balcony extension - we demand the immediate convening of the IAEA, in order to approve all the plans ready for discussion, plans that include over 5,000 housing units (compared to about 2,200 housing units To go up on the agenda of the IAEA that has not yet been convened). We also demand the renewal of the marketing of the thousands of housing units awaiting marketing, in order to address the thousands of families who want to determine their future in the localities of Judea and Samaria.
Despite the freeze and postponements, it must be said: the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria will flourish and prosper, this great Zionist act of establishing settlements and flowering the rocky mountains set in motion about a century ago, and it will only continue to develop. The question is whether you, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, will be recorded in the pages of history as the one who brought about this and as the one thanks to whom we will soon cross the threshold of one million inhabitants in Judea and Samaria, or as the one who completely or partially froze, created barriers and suffocated settlement. As stated, even if this happens, God forbid, and we will do our best not to do so, in the long run settlement will win.
