Leaders of communities throughout Yehuda and Shomron explain they see the writing on the walls, warning the 10-month construction freeze is a first step and it will chas v’sholom lead to the expulsion of Jews from their homes in many communities in a deal with the PA (Palestinian Authority) in the future.
The rally will take place on Wednesday, at Paris Square, down the block from the Prime Minister’s Official Residence, with Settlement Council leader Danny Dayan referring to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s White Paper, the 10-month construction freeze.
Dayan was addressing an urgent motzei shabbos meeting taking place in Ofra, one of the veteran Shomron communities. He rejected calls for IDF reservists to evade military service stating this is not an appropriate response.
Avi Ro’eh, who heads the Benjamin Regional Council in Shomron, the largest regional council in Israel, called the building freeze a “Gezerat Shmad”.
Regional leader Yitzchak Shadmi, a community activist, called for widespread unity and support, to defeat the decree without resorting to violence, urging residents to violate the ban and make the additions to their homes, the new porch or balcony or extra room. He called for constructing structures as far from community borders as possible, explaining such locations will serve as an early-warning station to approaching inspectors, permitting the community to organize resistance to prevent their entry.
Shadmi, in his capacity as the head of the regional council citizens committee stressed the absolute necessity to avoid violence.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The weekend Hamodia is not telling the story straight,,,, construction material, cranes and Arab Workers had been stopped from entering Beitar IN ORDER to freeze construction that HAS STARTED already. This freeze is not bothering the little outposts and Shomron neighborhoods only (as Hamodia claims), homes in Ramot, Nvei Yakov, Gilo and Har Choma plus KiryaT Sefer, Modiim Illit and BEITAR are effected.
I think they are being paranoid and there is little liklihood that all the settlers would be expelled from the West Bank. There will obviously be a need to give back some settlements to the Palestinians as part of a final peace settlement but hopefully the number of settlers that will be forced to leave will be kept to a minimum and only those settlements that the security forces agree can be returned safely will be included in such an agreement.
#2, were the people living in Aza being paranoid as well? For the people who live in the Shomron (including myself), any minimum is unjustified.