"This is the eyes of State No. 2. You can see from Ashdod to Haifa. A settlement must be established here," Ariel Sharon said admiringly to his people and to Yael Ben Yaakov, one of the founders of settlement in northern Samaria, during his first visit to the region in early 1978. ", Did not change the topography.
The security importance of the place has only increased since then, as it is the last place left for Israel as Area C, which dominates both the slopes of Samaria in the Hadera-Netanya sector and the only longitudinal axis at the back of the mountain, Axis 60.
In 2005, residents of four northern Samaria localities and residents of 21 Gaza Strip localities were deported, but the situation on the ground in these two sectors is completely different.
Israel handed over Gaza to the PA in a government decision that Israel has no territorial requirements in, but in northern Samaria the status of the territory did not change, and all areas of the settlements and the deputies leading to them remained Area C without giving a millimeter, so the bottom line was the only "disengagement" there And the demolition of their homes.
The result of this unfortunate "disengagement" is also known, and it is consistent with the words of the then GSS chief, Avi Dichter, on the eve of the move, "Gaza will become Lebanon and northern Samaria will become Gaza." Indeed, in the absence of the IDF, the PA Hamas seized power in Gaza, and now has an army of about 40,000 troops and a system of about 15,000 rockets, far more than Hezbollah in 2005. Gaza lowers Tel Aviv to shelters as it pleases, and Israel fears any Eurovision, football game or important performance, The disengagement does not stop producing surprises, because a year ago it became clear that Gaza can also ignite the Arabs of Israel for us, meaning that not only one war front on the Gaza border created the disengagement, but also dozens of other fronts in the home front.
Indeed, northern Samaria became the Gaza of that time: hundreds of gunmen and thousands of weapons, turning every simple arrest operation into war, retaliating with deaths from the IDF, firing in Tel Aviv and Bnei Brak and cutting people with axes in Elad, under the direction of Yahya Sinwar, from the southern branch of the disengagement. Jewish settlement and presence, the military presence is loose and terrorism flourishes in the black hole that has been created.
In view of the bloody failure of the disengagement, the left reached a typical conclusion: to continue the retreat and displacement and to intensify the terrorist den.
The problem is that these extremist circles have an important partner: the Minister of Defense, Bnei Gantz.
His conclusion is to uproot the small yeshiva that preserves the Jewish presence in the Chumash, which is the most critical place in the sector.
Suddenly it is important for Gantz to keep the law, which he and the Civil Administration tweet about, in Khan al-Ahmar and another 800 illegal Arab outposts in Area C.
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