Outside the disturbing frame of MK Limor Son Har Melech surrounded by four ladies, the main event took place: the security forces uprooted and destroyed a vineyard with more than 1,000 crops - vines, fruit trees, olive trees and ornamental trees.
This happened after an appeals committee of the Civil Administration chaired by three judges, which lasted from 2010 to 2014, won the vineyard's owners, the Ben Eliyahu family, based on dozens of documents and aerial photographs.
According to the judges, the "interfering use order" issued to the Ben Eliyahu family was prohibited.
A year later, the head of the administration decided to cancel the decisions of the appeals committee on his own accord, and contrary to the decision of the judges.
The High Court, as usual, ruled against the Jewish settlement.
Chen Ben Eliyahu, the owner, signed a document agreeing to transfer the crops on the condition that he be offered suitable alternative land, but the lands offered so far were not relevant.
One of the proposals, quite audaciously, proposed to move the vineyard to the territory of the Amichai settlement - the one that was built on the site of the destroyed Amona - within the areas intended to be a construction reserve.
It is always sad to see trees uprooted, but this story has two other dimensions that make it outrageous.
First, even for those who want to claim that vandalizing a Jewish vineyard is the most correct thing to do from a legal point of view - this is a complete sentence.
We have seen in many places, such as in Ofra and Netiv Avot, that the Palestinian claimants to ownership of the lands do not actually come to cultivate the land that was "vacated" from the Jewish presence.
When it does happen, these are very specific places.
The Efrat local council, for example, is built between private lands, and the Palestinian landowners cultivate their lands without hindrance - at the same time as the development of the Jewish settlement.
But it is not always possible.
Instead of finding a proper solution, which compensates the Palestinian landowner and allows him to enjoy his property rights - a solution proposed, for example, within the framework of the settlement law - the State of Israel creates destruction for the sake of destruction, and sends the forces responsible for its security to that end.
Second, it is an unimaginable display of selective "justice".
Security forces sent to Kerem passed dozens of illegal Arab settlement points on their way. They are set up systematically, with the first intention and with the clear aim of blocking the further development of the Jewish settlements, and threatening the main axes of movement in Judea and Samaria. Whoever looks at the map of the illegal Arab settlement On the ground, one cannot be mistaken. The active takeover is done in broad daylight, and the signs on the roadside buildings state without shame that behind the new Palestinian state, which has risen under our noses, stand our friends from Europe and the United States.
Those who turn a blind eye to Palestinian settlement on state lands - may they not suddenly wake up to lawsuits in Jewish settlements.
Protecting property rights is an important and proper matter, whether it is Palestinian property or Jewish property - but maintaining one of them and neglecting the other is not justice, it is an injustice and a curse for generations.
It is not clear where the courage came from to send our forces to uproot Jewish olive trees, when the Palestinians continue to sit under our branches and under their olive trees in Area C.
If the political echelon - Defense Minister Galant, in this case - is afraid to deal with the blatant Palestinian violation of the Oslo Accords and the invasion of strategic lands, and if it prefers to avoid unflattering scenes of Israeli security forces evacuating a Palestinian settlement - it is understandable.
I mean, why were you elected if not to protect the Israeli interest and promote it?
But suppose
But if you have already decided to abandon the territory, do not harass individuals who are willing to fight for it.
Not ready to deal with the Arab invasion?
Don't mess with the Jewish settlement.
There are major and daily security challenges in YUS. 1,000 Jewish-owned trees is not one of them.
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