In response to reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s administration is working to legalize Rechalim, Bruchin and other communities, the European Union felt compelled to once again release a statement expressing its stern opposition to the effort to legalize “outposts”, once again steering far from reality and seeking to paint a picture that Rechalim for example is a row of tents or huts while in fact, as is the case in Migron and the Ulpana area of Beit El, there are established communities with permanent homes, road and infrastructure.
“I am extremely concerned regarding Israel’s decision pertaining to the status of the settlements of Sansana, Rechalim and Bruchin in the occupied Palestinian territory,” stated EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton, calling upon the government to reverse the planned move.
“The EU has repeatedly called on Israel to end all settlement activity. Settlements are illegal under international law, an obstacle to peace and threaten the viability of a two-state solution,” Ashton added.
In truth, Israel is to blame for after the miracles of the June 196 Six Day War including the liberation of Yehuda and Shomron, Israel did not annex those areas as parts of the country as was done in the Golan Heights and Jordan Valley, but the areas of Eretz HaKodesh are referred using various terms, including “territories”, “settlements” and the most popular, “West Bank”, implying these are the west bank of the Jordan River, i.e. and integral portion of Jordan. In addition, Israeli legitimized the existence of the so-called Palestinian people.
By playing into the hands of the international community instead of relying on HKBH, Israel has declared that it too does not view these areas as legitimately part of Israel. The same ambiguous policy has resulted in the conflict over eastern Yerushalayim and those who know realize a Jew cannot walk in certain areas of the eastern capital, which have become part of the PA (Palestinian Authority), with the latter claiming it as the capital of its future state. And perhaps saddest of all is that so many Jews, both in and outside of Israel agree with this viewpoint.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
If “international law” says that there are areas of the world where Jews may not live, then that “international law” is evil and must be defied and resisted. But it’s all nonsense, because there’s no such thing as “international law”; the term refers to customs, which are usually kept in order to promote harmony among nations, but which no sane nation obeys when they are against its interests.
When has the EU failed to criticize Eretz Israel. That would be news not this
I for one could not care less what the anti-Semitic EU or UN say.
What IS tragic, as the writer says, is that the spineless, G-dless ‘government’ of Israel does not stand up strongly and proudly and say that ALL of these areas (and more) are part of the Land that G-d has given to the Jewish people!!!
Remember Rav Shach was against settlements. They aggrivate the Palestienians and cause hatred of Jews.
Who cares what the EU has to say?
To them, Jews are a pain in the neck..
#4, he also said that we can live very well for another 2000 years without Moshiach.
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