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2023-06-02T07:02:31.987Z

Highlights: Settlement Minister Orit Struk criticized the United States on Friday following the displeasure expressed by the American administration over the reconstruction of the Homesh outpost. Earlier this week, the US State Department issued a strong statement against the move by Ministers Yoav Galant and Bezalel Smotrich. Israeli officials said that during closed talks with the Biden administration, the Israeli government rejected the claim that it had violated the commitments it made in the letters. The Israeli side argued that it was the Obama administration that already denied the existence of the letters and commitments that President Bush gave Sharon.


In an interview with FM103, the settlement minister attacked the American administration after it expressed its displeasure with the establishment of the outpost in Samaria, claiming that it does not respect the agreements between the countries. This is against the background of the 2005 understandings reached by the Bush and Sharon administrations, which Obama did not accept


Video: After the repeal of the Disengagement Law in Samaria: The Homesh yeshiva was moved to state land (TPS)

Settlement Minister Orit Struk criticized the United States on Friday following the displeasure expressed by the American administration over the reconstruction of the Homesh outpost. "Let the United States not talk to us about the commitments," she said in an interview on 103FM. "I don't know that there is an agreement not to build the communities in northern Samaria."

The minister added: "I would advise the Americans not to boast about the unserious agreement between Sharon and Bush, which for us produced a terrible disaster of uprooting and destroying four communities, as far as Bush was concerned, it yielded a letter that Obama could not find." Strzok was referring to the process of evacuating the outpost in 2005, when, in exchange for the evacuation of isolated settlements, the administration of President George W. Bush agreed to recognize that the large settlement blocs in the West Bank adjacent to the 1967 lines would remain part of Israel in any future peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Establishment of the yeshiva in Chumash. Earlier this week (Photo courtesy of those photographed, Homesh Yeshiva)

The understandings between then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and then-US President George W. Bush were anchored in an exchange of official letters between the two governments. Earlier this week, the US State Department issued a strong statement against the move by Ministers Yoav Galant and Bezalel Smotrich, claiming that the new order signed by the commander of Central Command "is inconsistent" with the Israeli commitment included in the Bush-Sharon letters.

Israeli officials said that during closed talks with the Biden administration, the Israeli government rejected the claim that it had violated the commitments it made in the letters. The Israeli side argued that it was the Obama administration that already in 2009 denied the existence of the letters and commitments that President Bush gave Sharon, and therefore the Biden administration has no legitimacy to claim that Israel violated its commitments.

Orit Strock (Photo: Reuven Castro)

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"The fact that we have disagreements with the United States is well known, I'm talking about disagreements within the government as well," Strzok continued. "We try in these disputes to persuade, to motivate, and we have already succeeded in quite a few things to persuade or motivate, and we will continue. On the one hand, these things are important to us, and on the other hand, we know that there is no better government than the one currently in place, and that the alternative is terrible."

"The government is a right-wing government as a whole, but even within the right there are different approaches, and we will have to talk about it, move things as they do between partners. But as I see the activity of this government, I'm generally optimistic – even if there are things that take time, you have to convince, but thank God things are progressing."

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