One of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s last actions in office prior to ending his term on Tuesday was to approve a compromise plan for the authorization of the settlement of Evyatar in the Shomron after being pressured to do so by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.
The move still needs final approval from Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who was heavily involved in formulating the plan but it is already causing major tension within the coalition.
Haaretz reported on Thursday morning that Foreign Minister Yair Lapid sent a sharply worded letter to Bennett on Wednesday warning him that “every step” of implementing the plan can significantly harm Israel’s foreign relations, “first and foremost with the US since the matter has already been clarified by the US administration at senior levels.”
“It will cause real harm in the growing legal-diplomatic campaign in international forums, utilizing it to promote the delegitimization of Israel.”
Lapid also noted that he was not consulted about the plan and does not support it, a legitimate complaint considering he is responsible for Israel’s foreign relations. A copy of the letter was also sent to the Attorney General’s Office.
Also on Wednesday, the left-wing parties in the coalition, Labor and Meretz, slammed the move, with Labor stating that “those who want a stable coalition must act in accordance with its agreements,” and Meretz threatening to oppose the move.
A compromise deal regarding Evyatar was signed on June 30, 2021, outlining that all the residents will willingly leave the settlement by July 2, 2021, and an IDF unit will guard the homes at the site until the legal status of the land is verified by the state. Following state verification, demolition orders will be revoked, a yeshivah will be established at the site under a special order, and eventually, the state will approve a permanent presence there.
A survey carried out in October proved that 60 dunam (15 acres) of the land at the site is state land.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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If Lapid wants to move to America, I’m sure he’ll be welcomed. We’re letting in in all the Central America vagrants, I’m sure he can join. – no one will notice.
Oh wow. Some concessions. World headlines that 15 acres of undeveloped land has been allocated for another concentrated camp surrounded with barbed wire, like a camp relocated to Yisroel in the Fourth Reich. Those kofer puppets of the regime love how their conquest and military occupation allows the application of international humanitarian law to limit settlements. Why? Cuz that’s how they monetize their real estate market. That’s how they get equity from their homes, by limiting development for Yiddin. Second paragraph in the Shema talks about having graze in the field for your animal. Not in this generation, no. If you try to settle outside of the barbed wire, magavniks will severely injure you and then call you an “extremist” to justify your injuries. Meanwhile, conquest of the land cannot afford superior title to it. That is true not only in the perverted edifice of public international law as it developed in the 20th century (after centuries of justifying Roman-style land theft), but it is true in our own legal tradition. Read the Rambam Hilchos Beis HaBechirah 6:16. Or, think Rebbi Yossi’s drash in Seder Olam. A chazakah affords superior title to conquest. If the puppet regime that appropriated the name “Israel” had respected its own legal tradition and its own territorial inheritance, it could have claimed a trusteeship or tutelage on the territory that is owned by its de jure sovereign that preceded all conquests of the territory. It could have applied the intertemporal principle to recognize superior title to the land as the inheritance of Yisroel and that it was customary international law way back when (think the Persian restoration) to respect the laws in force in the country, i.e., the Torah. Instead, the regime that appropriated the name “Israel” recognized the legality of every occupant of the land since Rome and claimed that the territory had become terra nullius more recently, i.e., ownerless (See Yehudah Blum’s article “The Last Missing Reversioner”, which went on to influence Meir Shamgar and their official regime position). It is actual kefirah. They based their position in public international law on a denial that the land has a prior legal owner, and now they have to deal with the fact that the international community recognizes them as an illegal occupant in violation of the laws of occupation. Oh well. Not my problem. If I sought to address with words the issues of the status quo, they’d probably would come up with an excuse to have me battered or slandered or falsely imprisoned. Not an exaggeration. They torture Torah Yiddin who try to do mitzvos in Yisroel. That is what this client regime does best. The regime there today is as legit as the Herodian regime, just instead of being a puppet to heathen Rome, it’s just another heathen suzerain’s puppet. All I can say is that I hope they all got their jabs, cuz there’s not a public international legal expert nor authoritarian defender of the occupation regime today that hasn’t been vaxed. It would be way easier to justify Yisroel living in Yisroel according to the Torah after the abominable occupant has been dispossessed of effective control. I pity the Yiddin who go live in a concentration camp on 15 acres behind barbed wire who think that that’s the beginning of the sprouting of redemption or whatever. LOL. It’s unbelievably hilarious and depressing at the same time that any Yid could think this way.
Plenty of empty hillsides in Judaea and Samaria. That puppet regime produces 10% of the food it would need to sustain its own population if global supply chains and food imports and international travel were disrupted. It has low grain reserves. If there ever were a global shortage of grain, China and India presumably would buy up the reserves. It’s literally a sitting duck for starvation. Meanwhile, in Second Temple times, the land was able to support a larger population than its highly advanced agriculture today could. Why? Cuz they were homesteading in the hilly country that sits empty today. They actually had opportunities then to appreciate what is described in the second paragraph of the Shema, your own tirosh, yitzhar, basically ownership and possession of the land and enjoyment of its fruits like the Heavens on Earth. No Yid today can enjoy that, and any Yid that goes to live there today is just adding to the problem of eventual famine. Thank the kofer captivity.
Lapid is just a stupid irelavant child
He didn’t even get an education or
Go to school