It's time to get off the fence.
It's not an interesting photo, it's Sisyphean and gray, but it's the truth: in Judea and Samaria, every day, the choke rings are built and tightened around the Jewish settlements.
The Palestinian Authority, with generous European assistance, builds and builds, batteries and plants.
Everything is visible and known.
The Palestinian Authority not only does not hide it, it is proud of it.
It implements every day, every minute, the so-called "Fayyad Plan".
The Jewish residents in the localities do not feel this.
It's not bloody terrorism, thank God, it's quiet suffocation.
They manage their daily routine, not noticing that they are slowly being suffocated.
If you stand on the lookout in Moshav Petzael in the Jordan Valley, you will discover a wonderful spectacle: vast spaces empty of houses, then clusters of Arab construction. A look at the aerial photograph shows the bleak picture: the clusters are located right on the border of Area C, state lands in the Tabu, the jurisdiction of the nearby Moshav Tomer. Thus, while areas A and B remain empty, areas C are occupied. This is not a land shortage for construction by the Arabs, but a deliberate construction on state land, around the localities. Even if you stand in the northern neighborhoods of Efrat you can see a similar spectacle: the houses of the Arabs are built only tens of meters from the streets of Efrat and the local youth movement. The devoted residents of Efrat have opened their own independent Knesset. They monitor every brick and every concrete casting, and report to authorities. They know every demolition order given and not enforced and they do not despair, but the state simply does not exist. The Civil Administration fails in its job, voluntarily.
There is no one to trust. The Civil Administration does not want to address the issue. It's not that he can not, it's not that he lacks manpower or money standards. He is simply not interested and does not want to preserve the state lands in Judea and Samaria. In a query recently submitted by MK Orit Struck to the Minister of Finance, it emerged that most of the standards allocated to the Civil Administration and intended for the campaign on Area C were simply transferred to other missions. This was done because the Civil Administration The same. Every phone call to Area C of the Civil Administration was answered indifferently, with a wave. Everything is slow, lacks desire and laziness, and in the more severe case - intentional.
We have reached a stage where there is no state to trust with our eyes closed, and leadership is needed: leaders are needed to get out of the fence.
The local leadership in Judea and Samaria, whether elected leadership or civic organizations, must step out of the fence.
To preserve the lands of the state, the lands of the settlements, the homeland of us all.
This should be done in a smart, law-abiding and responsible manner.
Not in violence or vandalism against the Arab population, but in the form of a positive perception of space by planting or cultivating the land, yes in the form of presence in the field.
If we do not have us, who do we have.
There is simply no choice.
As then, in the second half of the 19th century in Jerusalem, when they came out of the walls of the Old City and broke the defensive blend within the wall, so it is today.
What is needed is to get out of the fence.
Both from the psychological fence, and from the physical fence.
Go out and save the land.