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Minister Eli Cohen to Sovereignty: “Sovereignty is the central issue we must work to realize in the historic window of opportunity of the Trump administration in the White House. The right’s approach has always been the conception of a single Jewish state between the sea and the Jordan. This stems from our historical right to the land. It acquires added security significance in light of the ‘Iron Swords’ war. We have seen that every territory we left, like the Gaza Strip, turned into a greenhouse for nests of terror with Iranian influence, and therefore the most important thing is the application of sovereignty.”

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“If you have to choose between sovereignty and expanding the Abraham Accords, I prefer sovereignty, but I estimate that it will be possible to expand the Abraham Accords even with sovereignty,” says Minister Eli Cohen in an interview with Sovereignty.

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The application of sovereignty could have a dramatic impact on the Ministry of National Security. In an interview with Sovereignty, the minister answered that his ministry is prepared to hand over security management across Judea and Samaria to the police on the day after sovereignty is applied, the day when the IDF is supposed to take up positions on the borders.

“We would be very happy to carry out that mission,” replies Ben-Gvir, who is convinced the police can recruit the forces for it. He understands this would be a gradual, not immediate, transition, but “the very strong police force that already operates in Judea and Samaria will have the ability to take on this role.”
 

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In an interview with Sovereignty, Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir addresses encouragement of emigration of Arabs from Gaza and states that the move is necessary in Judea and Samaria as well: “They have nowhere to return to and nowhere to live. Many homes were destroyed, so emigration is an alternative. Beyond that, the reality there is difficult economically and in other ways that make life hard, so I say that if that is the reality there, there is no reason not to encourage emigration of Arabs in Judea and Samaria as well. We see that happening in Hebron; many are moving to other countries. Sovereignty is a substantive, fundamental, and historic step, but the Arab population needs a solution in the form of voluntary emigration. These two moves together can bring absolute victory.”

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Alongside the joy — together with all the People of Israel — over the return of all the hostages, we must clarify that although the full details of the agreement are not yet known, if the agreement indeed includes those same 21 points that were published previously, then this is a defeat and a humiliation to the honor of Israel. The only response that would have been appropriate toward Gaza after the October slaughter of the seven-day mourning period would have been its total destruction — just as the Almighty taught us in the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is true justice; this is the necessary rectification.

If the agreement is indeed subject to those 21 points and limitations, then its implementation will increase and strengthen evil in the world and the confusion between good and evil.

Gaza is an inseparable part of the Land of Israel and must return into Jewish hands under Israeli sovereignty. By our withdrawing from it once again, we inflict a blow to our national honor; and in addition, we return hope to the Arab enemy to take possession of the whole Land of Israel, G-d forbid. In order to restore our national honor, to sever the enemy’s hopes, to deliver a crushing blow to our enemies and to return to true justice and morality, we must choose the path of sovereignty and its application over all of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza area.

We will add and emphasize here that there is no difference between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The same ideology, vision and hopes drive both groups, and now they receive validation for the success of their path and encouragement for the continuation of that cruel and murderous way in the future as well, in order to reach the goal they declare again and again — the destruction of the State of Israel.

The people of Israel were given tasks and a destiny that fill it with meaning: to distinguish between light and darkness, between life and death, between meaning and morality on the one hand and distortion and trampling of justice on the other. Yet again and again we betray our destinies and are swept up in perverted and irrational moral rules.

In two years of war the people of Israel have taken significant steps to clarify their identity and affiliation to it, but there remains work to complete. We are confident that the destiny of the people of Israel will be realized in the future, with a leadership that will be a proud Jewish leadership

Our hope is that the next opportunity to return to our autonomy and identity will not carry much more painful and heavy prices.

Minister Bezalel Smotrich tells in an interview with issue 19 of Sovereignty about the headquarters work he led in order to enable the immediate application of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria:
 

“When a government decides to apply Israeli law and jurisdiction, changes take effect. For example, local authorities in Judea and Samaria will not continue to exist from that moment because they currently operate by virtue of a military commander’s order. Therefore there is a need for a special order from the Minister of the Interior that establishes those authorities in their existing form from that day, since we will not hold elections. There is a set of laws that currently applies to the area and when sovereignty is applied those laws lapse and there is a need to expand some laws so that they will apply alongside some laws that continue. Another example is the issue of traffic, which today is under the authority of the Military Commander for Traffic when there is no traffic-authority in Judea and Samaria — and there will be a need to establish such an authority immediately. All this is true in almost every field.”
 

“We will need, for example, to decide whether the Ministry of the Interior establishes a Judea and Samaria district or whether it attaches Samaria to the Sharon district committee, Benjamin to Jerusalem, and South Mount Hebron to the Southern District. There is a lot of work and every ministry will have to make decisions. Systems will not be frozen and we cannot wait half a year for the changes to be regulated. Now the majority is already ready professionally and legally and it would be possible to apply sovereignty as early as tomorrow morning.”
 

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Minister Bezalel Smotrich to Sovereignty: “American recognition is not a condition for applying sovereignty. We annexed the Golan Heights and for decades the Americans did not recognize our sovereignty there,” he reminds.
 

Regarding the position of European countries and others about the sovereignty move, the minister said that “they will get angry, but they are angry now when we request our basic right to self-defense. We should not be impressed by their hypocrisy. True, we will need to wage a diplomatic and international information campaign — we are not a people that will dwell alone — but today, unlike in the past, we have the legitimacy of the world’s major important and powerful state, and it will be able to protect us from measures by other countries.”
 

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Tune in to a podcast by attorneys Ben-Ari and Dvoryn who discuss the need for sovereignty as the necessary response to the ongoing violation of civil rights, as an answer to the existential security threat to Israel, and as a determined reaction to terrorism and the diplomatic attack on Israel.
 

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Aviyad Bechar, who mourned his son and his wife in the October 7 massacre in Beeri, states in an interview with Sovereignty that without sovereignty in Judea and Samaria a severe and much worse massacre is closer than it appears: “The next October-style massacre is near and we don’t know how soon it will come, but it will come and it will be much stronger. It will come simultaneously from Metula, from Jenin toward Afula, and toward Kfar Saba. There will then be between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand fatalities.”

He says that in Judea and Samaria “the fence must be removed. The fence is the Jordan. There is no fence. This is the complete Land of Israel and there are no longer those who are not our citizens.”

 

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MK Avichai Boaron warns against partial sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. “If sovereignty is only on the Jordan Valley and on Area C, it means that forty percent of Judea and Samaria — Areas A and B — will be under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and in those areas behind the mountain ridge, from Jenin in the north through Nablus, Ramallah, East Jerusalem, to Bethlehem and Hebron, an Arab population hostile to the State of Israel will live,” Boaron describes in an interview with Sovereignty, and he adds for those not very familiar with the map another data point: “This is an area six times larger or more than the Gaza Strip. If Gaza is 350 km², here we are talking about 2,200 km².”
 

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