According to veteran Gush Etzion resident Rabbi Chanan Porat, image is high on the agenda for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, explaining that back on Tu B’Shvat, when learning the prime minister was planning to plant seedlings in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, he contacted Mr. Netanyahu to tell him that he is unwelcome, for one who freezes Jewish construction throughout Yehuda and Shomron is not an ally of the community.
As was reported by YWN-Israel (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=45817), the prime minister did visit the community and hold a planting ceremony, buying himself badly-needed PR among residents of Yosh, but it has now been learned that he succeeded in arranging his Zionist charade by defrosting the building freeze for the kibbutz, permitting construction of 50 housing units in exchange for the public relations event.
Porat is viewed as one of the founding fathers of the renewed settlement in Yehuda, Shomron and Gaza. His family lived in the kibbutz and was evacuated in the War of Independence. He was among the paratroopers who merited liberating Har Habayis, and he has returned to his home community and has been working towards building Greater Eretz Yisrael since.
Porat, a former MK, has confirmed reports that he is not in good health, explaining since the expulsion from Gaza, he has not succeeded in recovering from the blow, the awareness that Jews knowingly expelled others from their homes in Eretz Yisrael.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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(I am sorry to say but I have to make a comment.) This article is without a question Loshon hara and likely Motzai Shem Ra. How do we know what he’s going to say in Washington?
Overall he has been making a good balance of all the situations until now. Im yirtzeh Hashem he will do the same now. If we are to be concerned for his actions we should Daven that he should make the right decisions. He is likely trying to do his best. He needs are Chizuk, that he can do what’s right. He shouldn’t feel that we aren’t behind him.