We are happy to present you with our Sovereignty bulletin # 45, sent to members and supporters of our Sovereignty Movement. You are invited to read, get updated, send us your comments and join:
Dear friends,
Peace and greetings.
The effect of a government without an ideological backbone results in severe harm to Israeli governance and sovereignty in the entire country.
As we see how a historic opportunity to advance full sovereignty in Judea and Samaria was missed, we can also witness how Israel’s lack of governance and enforcement of sovereignty looks, throughout the Negev and the center of the country.
The terrible phenomenon of business and factory owners, as well as private citizens, being forced to pay protection money to criminals from the Bedouin sector, the arrogance of Bedouin vandals who break into IDF bases to steal weapons and ammunition, planting fields with drug crops even in IDF firing zones, digging tunnels to smuggle drugs by violent Bedouin gangs and the tragic case of the rape of a ten-year-old girl, all of these things are the tip of the iceberg of the Israeli government’s severe neglect and inaction. Israeli sovereignty is slipping through our fingers every single day with no proper and strong response.
All of this and more, are painful and upsetting evidence of the consequences of the limited and almost non-existent ability of our two-headed government, which lacks a common ideological denominator. Such a government, even if its partners are good and worthy people, cannot act to enforce Israeli sovereignty in the Negev, as well as deal with other matters.
This situation should lead the right-wing leadership to a number of immediate conclusions. The first of them is the obligation to mobilize to agree on an emergency plan to rescue the Negev and other areas throughout the Land, including the Center, where sovereignty is trampled upon and criminals do whatever they please.
The second conclusion is the understanding that the promotion of the State of Israel’s urgent matters cannot be achieved with a weak government, whose leaders do not have a common ideology and set of values. The internal arguments within the Israeli government do not allow for the advancement of matters dealing with values, nationalism and civic issues. The leaders of the Right must unify for the formation of a broad government that represents the will of the People and is capable, of promoting a cohesive world-view centered around clinging to the Land of Israel, strengthening it and the practical application of Israeli sovereignty and strengthening the settlement enterprise and immigration as the Zionist mission for the present generation.
The Right camp has about eighty mandates that aim to protect the Land, build the settlement, strengthen sovereignty, maintain the Jewish identity of the State of Israel and amend the legal system. The leaders of the camp must implement their democratic mission, form a broad right-wing coalition and lead the realization of the vision that the great majority of the People desires, with cooperation and mutual activity and without boycotts.
From declarations and plans to deeds and actions
Here, we would like to congratulate the heads of the rightwing parties, who are not removing from the agenda the need for an organized work plan to deal with the neglect of the South, North and Center.
These Knesset members are praiseworthy because they and the members of their parties are not removing from the agenda their demand for an appropriate response to the destruction of Joshua’s Altar in Har Eival, which was carried out recently when stones of the site that represents unprecedented evidence of ancient Jewish heritage, were crushed into gravel by the PA.
For now, these MK’s are presenting their plans in the context of a platform before the elections, but afterward, they will have to unite with other parties of the national camp into a nationalist coalition with a clear and resolute vision and practical goals.
When sovereignty and humanitarianism meet
The government of Israel has transferred a thousand doses of vaccine to the Gaza Strip, while the bodies of IDF fallen, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, obm, are still held by Hamas terrorists. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that he is acting tirelessly for the return of the sons, however, in his opinion, we must view the transfer of vaccine as a humanitarian issue, so there should be no connection between the two matters.
No, Mr. Prime Minister. We cannot separate the two. There is no more just and ethical humanitarian demand than the demand by the members of the Goldin and Shaul families, together with all the citizens of Israel, to return the remains of the soldiers and bring them to a Jewish burial.
There is no reasonable way to justify the transfer of a thousand portions of vaccine, which will be given to Hamas senior officials and not to the simple residents of the Strip, while our sons remain there. The government of Israel must use all leverage, civil, humanitarian and military, to force Hamas to return our sons.
The weakness, with which the Israeli government conducts itself vis-à-vis Hamas in this painful matter, is further proof of the mortal and continuing harm to Israel’s sovereignty inflicted by her enemies and those who wish her ill.
In this matter, we cannot wait for the next government to be formed. Every day that this matter is not resolved, is one day too many. We will continue to demand that the Israeli government and its head will operate all the levers of power that they can, for the return of the sons.
Gnawing away at the landscape and ruining public health
The Green Israel Forum held a conference this week (by Zoom, of course) on the phenomenon of the dozens of pirate Arab quarries that are scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Read the article here on the severe impact on public health of these quarries, which are managed by PA tycoons and as a result, are not subject to minimal Israel enforcement of the law. Here too, the lack of sovereignty exacts a heavy price from all of us, nationally and personally. The quarries gnaw away at dozens and hundreds of meters of the country’s landscapes and heritage sites. The harm to health affects both Jews and Arabs alike.
This is how looting of the homeland looks
Last Sunday, we watched an extremely informative lecture full of outrageous and infuriating details, by the Head of Har Hevron Council, our friend Yohai Dimri, on the PA’s continuing, systematic takeover of Israeli state lands.
Yohai expresses a comprehensive and strategic point of view that impacts the future of the entire Land, in light of the Arab takeover of lands; the ramifications on the political future of the State of Israel vis-a-vis the surrounding countries. In Yohai’s opinion, these things concern and worry the heads of the security establishment, but they happen covertly, perhaps because even these agents and others in the Israeli elite choose not to deal with it.
In the course of the lecture, Yohai also presents outlines of required plans to change the situation, along with a description of development of the towns and initiatives for business and tourism in the council that he heads.
Watch the informative lecture. It indeed does present us with an upsetting and infuriating picture, but we must see it as an imperative for action and internalizing the necessity for sovereignty. In the absence of sovereignty, the land is being stolen from us every single day.
Watch the lecture (Hebrew):
Shabbat shalom,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar