The "right-wing full-full" government freezes "full-no".
There is nothing like the space between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem to illustrate this.
The evacuation of the illegal Palestinian outpost, Khan al-Ahmar - which sends, with the help of the European Union, illegal migrations to more and more territories - has been frozen for many years.
But this is not the only freeze in the region.
The construction of the nearby Jewish neighborhood, in the E-1 area, which is supposed to connect Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem, has also been frozen for many years.
This is how Israel loses out of all worlds: on the one hand, it freezes the most consensual and strategic neighborhood in the West Bank, the one that is supposed to connect Jerusalem with 3,500 housing units and industrial areas to Mount Red. On the other hand, it allows the Palestinians, through illegal construction, to invade this space and torpedo A possibility that the establishment of the Jewish neighborhood in the E-1 area will still be possible in the future.
Khan al-Ahmar, photo: TPS
The background to the double freeze show is discriminatory American and European pressure: Israel is required by the world not to build in the Maale Adumim area the neighborhood with the longest freeze period, approximately 30 years, in order "not to establish facts on the ground prior to negotiations on the future of the area"; Not to torpedo the possibility of a Palestinian state and the Palestinian continuity that is necessary for this between the north of the West Bank and the south." Red, come to the Dead Sea.
This is a competition between two sequences.
Palestinian: North-South, and Israeli: West-East.
In the current reality, Israel has no chance of winning this competition.
Right now the Palestinians are outnumbering us in the fight for the territory.
Not by knockout, but by points.
They also prevent us from building along the Jerusalem-Jericho road, and also succeed - through their own illegal construction - in reducing the width of the remaining corridor for Israeli construction along this road.
This is of course not a full right, but an empty right.
If not for the glory of the recommendation alone, this time Netanyahu promised his voters "full right", he must finally fend off the American pressures in the "Greater Jerusalem" region, which has no consensus in the Israeli political spectrum.
Benjamin Netanyahu during the swearing in of the new government under his leadership, December 29, 2022, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"Greater Jerusalem", for those who have forgotten, is a concept that Rabin and his friends from the Labor Party invented many years ago.
This space combines settlement and security, two central components of the Israeli national interest, which help each other.
Together they create strategic depth, within the framework of "defensive borders", two forgotten concepts whose validity has not expired, and are still relevant today.
Once, when he was in the opposition, Netanyahu knew how to point out the strategic core of the E-1 plan: "We want to create the continuity of Greater Jerusalem from west to east. The Palestinians want to create a continuity of construction from north to south. Someone will overcome someone," he explained.
"They want to strangle Jerusalem on the one hand and separate it from Ma'ale Adumim on the other. We must overcome them and build E-1. They will not give up."
The question today is - did Netanyahu give up?
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