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Opinion The time has come to correct the folly of uprooting northern Samaria Israel today

2022-12-29T20:39:16.403Z


The change in the law of disengagement that Netanyahu has committed to will allow the Jews to return to Northern Samaria and correct a pointless decision that Eric Sharon and his advisors imposed upon us with unbearable arbitrariness and casualness


Even from a distance of 17 years, the disengagement from northern Samaria seems particularly scandalous, irresponsible, casual, promiscuous, an event from the genre of the "unbelievable" stories that Ariel Sharon and his advisers brought upon us with unforgivable brutality.

While the circumstances of the birth of the original deportation plan from Gush Katif will one day have to be investigated and checked if it was not brought to the world's air except to escape Sharon from a corruption trial;

While there is a real need to clarify the theory of "the depth of the displacement as the depth of the investigation", there is no need to investigate the "bastard" (the little plan).

Everything there is overwhelming and especially chilling with unbearable lightness.

The areas of northern Samaria, and the four settlements: Shaanur, Chumash, Ganim and Kadim - which according to the coalition agreement will be re-opened, after legislation, to the residence of Jews - were not part of the original deportation plan at all.

The senior American government officials who heard about the disengagement plan from Gush Katif did not believe their ears at first.

Some of them even thought at first that it was a prank.

The plan did not align with Ariel Sharon's well-known positions and statements such as "Din Netzer kadin Tel Aviv", or his advice to the settlers to run and grab more hills.

But the Americans "recovered" quickly.

Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor to President Bush at the time, even demanded from Sharon proof of seriousness in the U.S. sector as well. Rice explained to Dobby Weisglass, the director of Sharon's office, that the United States cannot afford to be suspected of complicity in an Israeli ruse: withdrawing from Gaza in order to "fortify "In Judea and Samaria, therefore there must, absolutely must, be a withdrawal, even if only symbolic, there as well.

Both the IDF and the MLA were stunned, twice: once from the original program, and then from the subsidiary program, in northern Samaria.

General Giora Eiland, who was then the head of the MLA, was forced to mark on a map, without much joy, the four settlements that would be evacuated from there. Visgels later admitted that "beyond the American apprehension of an appearance, as if the withdrawal from Gaza was intended to strengthen the hold on the West, there was no Touching northern Samaria has no further purpose."

Yair Neve, the commanding general, also carried out the evacuation order as if he were a demon.

He also confessed: "...we didn't gain a reduction in the order of forces here after we left. From this point of view, the evacuation was for nothing."

The seedlings planted by Rabbi Druckman

Rice's executors were the American ambassador to Israel Dan Kretzer and the White House advisers Steve Hadley and Bill Burns.

The three took full advantage of the situation, illustrated to Israel what American pressure was, and made it clear to Sharon what was expected of him.

The return that Sharon Weisglass later bragged about was an American presidential letter that apparently supports the Israeli position on two issues: leaving the large settlement blocs as they are and preventing the return of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel.

But the "achievement" was revealed sooner than expected as "expired".

The Obama administration and his Secretary of State Clinton refused to see their predecessor's letter as a binding document or policy (Clinton's email correspondence with adviser Jake Sullivan proves this).

And Clinton made it clear to Netanyahu regarding the construction in the settlements: "Not even one stone."

While the expulsion of Gush Katif will one day have to be investigated and checked if it was not brought to the world's air except to shield Sharon from a corruption trial, there is no need to investigate the "Bat HaMazar" - the plan to uproot from northern Samaria.

Everything there is torrential and creepy

This is how - with or without compensation - the harvest took place on the settlements of Gush Katif and Chumash, Shaanur, Ganim and Kadim.

But unlike Gush Katif, where Israel locked the door behind it, in northern Samaria only the settlers were evacuated and their houses destroyed.

The area itself, which was closed to Israelis, remained in the status of Area C, under full Israeli security and civil control, and was not handed over to the Palestinian Authority at all.

Only the houses were destroyed in Chomash and Shaanur.

The streets remained almost intact, as did the roads and sidewalks.

The yards have sprouted thorns, but the trees have mostly not been uprooted, and the staircases still lead to the nothingness where the residences once stood.

In recent years, thousands have come to Chomash on holidays and feast days and held memorial and reconnection ceremonies there.

Dozens of MKs accompanied them. The head of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva, Rabbi Haim Druckman, who died this week, planted new saplings here with thousands of boys and girls. From time to time, for example on Independence Day, mass events were held there, and the circles of support expanded even further. The most significant presence on the ground was That of the Chomash Yeshiva led by Rabbi Elishma Cohen. The students and their rabbis studied in caves and beduns and dilapidated barracks as well as under the open sky. They were evacuated dozens of times, and always returned.

At the end of the Bennett-Lapid government, after the attack in which the late Chomesh Yeshiva student Yehuda Dimentman was murdered, the policy was tightened regarding the Chomesh and filed an indictment against the head of the yeshiva for violating the "law of secession". There is a law" and the Palestinians, that the yeshiva has a right to evacuate.

turn the wheel backwards

Now, when the government is changing, the attorney's office is asking the High Court to allow the new government to reconsider its position on the matter. A bill has already been submitted to the Knesset by former Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and minister-designate Orit Struck, the purpose of which is to start and turn the wheel backwards.

In the first stage, the intention is to make the stay in northern Samaria legal.

This is another version of similar bills, the first of which was submitted by Struck and Zev Elkin back in 2014.

Only the first step, hopefully, on the way to the return of the Jews to Northern Samaria and the rebuilding of the settlements there.

As prime minister, Netanyahu froze, at the request of the Americans, similar bills, but in the previous Knesset he had signed an identical bill.

Now he undertakes, for the first time in a coalition agreement, to enact the amendment to the secession law, when the meaning of the words is clear: the Chumash yeshiva will not be evicted, and the indictment against the head of the yeshiva will be dismissed.

But more importantly - this is the first formal statement that the State of Israel seeks to correct the sin of secession and considers it an injustice and folly;

that she wished to withdraw from that act.

This is a message that is not only internal, but also external, and is primarily intended for American ears: Israel does not intend to continue in the future the "convergence plan" in the West Bank, which Sharon and Olmert conceived, and according to Olmert's testimony, the "disengagement" from northern Samaria was only its opening. Also changing its name of the "Law for the Implementation of the Disengagement", which Netanyahu undertook to amend into the "Law on Compensation for the Victims of the Disengagement", embodies within it a correction and a change of direction, as Struck and Edelstein call it.

Almost all the goals of the plan that the Sharon government decided on 18 years ago have not been realized: the completion of the plan did not "negate the validity of the claims against Israel regarding its responsibility for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

The disengagement did not "make the Gaza Strip demilitarized", and certainly did not lead to a "better security, political, economic and demographic reality".

In northern Samaria, the empty settlement even strengthened the presence of terrorist organizations and their activities there.

In 1948 the settlements of Gush Etzion were displaced by the enemy.

They returned to their limit after 19 years.

Gush Katif settlements that were destroyed by wrong brothers will also return to their borders one day.

The opportunity for this, even if you delay - come.

In North Samaria the opportunity is already here.

Reach out your hand and touch her.

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Source: israelhayom

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