We are happy to present you with our Sovereignty bulletin #67, sent to members and supporters of our Sovereignty Movement. You are invited to read, get updated, send us your comments and join:
Dear friends,
Greetings.
The days are passing and we soon can expect to need to leverage the vision of sovereignty, to demand its implementation and realization. These days, it is becoming clear that the weakening of attraction in the political arena toward the Right’s vision leads necessarily to the attraction toward the Left and its plan for uprooting towns and dividing the Land.
These dangerous trends have already begun, and they are expected to continue to get a significant tailwind from the direction of the White House and the Biden administration, as well as countries of the European Union, who feel a false sense of guardianship and colonialism over what happens in the State of Israel.
We must arm ourselves with renewed and refreshed strength in order to continue to push forward to the realization of the vision, which has the consent of a significant majority in the Israeli Knesset.
A Dangerous Omen
This week, we experienced, with great pain, what might be revealed as the first experiments in demolitions and evacuations throughout Judea and Samaria. On instruction by the Defense Ministry, seven pioneering families were evacuated and uprooted from their homes this week in Adorayim, which is located in the Southern hebron Hills.
Our friend, Head of Southern hevron Regional Council Yohai Damari, said that the plan for evacuation was kept secret until the last moment, and up to that point, the residents felt that there would not be an evacuation and even that regulation was imminent, but one day previously, it became known that forces of the Civil Administration were on their way to the place to carry out the ruinous and gratuitous move.
The media, in general, almost ignored the severe violation to the young families who had chosen to dedicate their daily routine to pioneering and settling the Land of Israel.
The evacuation of Adorayim preceded by about one day, the report on the state’s response to the High Court, according to which it took upon itself the destruction of two buildings in the community of Eli. The four families who live in these buildings committed no sin or crime, they are families whose house was built on lands that were not stolen, Heaven forbid, and there is no one who claims ownership on the lands.
The government could have approved the houses with the enactment of the Regulation Law combined with the Override Clause. Thus, it would have been possible for the families to continue to live there, without demolition or displacement and if and when someone would come and proved that he owned the lands, he would have been compensated as is customary everywhere else in the State of Israel, but the government did not choose to go in this direction. It chose to go in the direction of destruction and demolition.
This destruction might, Heaven forbid, be a precedent for hundreds and perhaps even thousands of houses throughout Judea and Samaria. We must not allow this to happen and the right and proper and safe way to do this is the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, to bring the law in Judea and Samaria to be equal to that in all other parts of the State of Israel.
Click here to read our movement’s response to these events
Sovereignty is not a political bargaining chip
We received the report of the defeat of the Sovereignty Law, proposed by Member of Knesset Miki Zohar of the Likud, with great pain and disappointment.
It is painful and disappointing to see public figures, who walked with us a long way in full support of the vision of sovereignty, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Ministers Ze’ev Elkin, Gideon Saar, Ayelet Shaked and others, who chose to vote against the proposed law that actually matches their own ideological positions, only because of political rivalry.
In the response to the event that we published, we mentioned the importance of sovereignty as an extremely important Zionist step in expressing the longing of generations of the Jewish People, and as such, we must not allow it to become a bargaining chip in the conflict and political struggle between the coalition and the opposition.
Sovereignty must be promoted with a long-range Zionist view, with agreement and coordination between all factions that support the settlement enterprise and love the Land of Israel. The parliamentary majority already exists and all that remains to know is how to utilize it to fulfill the vision.
Click here to read our response to the events in the political arena
Patronage and Colonialism
This week in the UN, a special discussion was held on the decision of the Israeli court to evacuate the Arab families that had invaded the homes of Jews in the neighborhood of Shimon Hatzadik, in Jerusalem.
Such a discussion, on the State of Israel’s internal matters and rulings of the Israeli court on what happens in the capital of the State of Israel, is a severe violation of Israeli sovereignty. That such a discussion was held reinforces the sense in the world’s capitals that they need to manage what happens in Israel out of a misguided sense of patronage and colonialism.
We should expect and demand severe responses condemning this interference in Israel’s internal and sovereign matters from the Israeli government and especially from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
We are continuing to meet with the next generation
During the week, we met with members of the Ezra youth movement for a discussion on sovereignty and the Greater Jerusalem plan, its significance and its merits.
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The discussion that took place before about four hundred male members of the movement and next week we will meet a similar number of female members. The meetings are part of the movement’s summer camp events.
The youths showed great interest in the matters that we raised; they asked important questions and received full answers and many of them committed to join the Sovereignty youth Movement. Again, we saw the healthy spirit of the youth, who will soon become integrated into Israel’s entire national leadership.
Shabbat shalom,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar