T. Belman. Once again, I stress, Israel must publicly state that the lands in question, Area C, are Israel Sovereign territory and not Occupied Palestinian land. This can’t be repeated enough.
SOVEREIGNTY NEWSLETTER
A dangerous encounter
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is leaving for a visit in the U.S., where it is expected that the policy matters of interest to the Biden administration will be raised. One of these matters is Biden’s desire to establish a consulate for the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem.
For the administration, the motive is clear and simple. It is interested in promoting a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, so establishing a consulate would constitute a significant political anchor for additional steps whose purpose is to determine political facts on the ground in the heart of Israel’s capital.
But while these are the American administrations motives, the Prime Minister and his people must remember their mission as representatives of the Jewish People, who care only about Israel’s interests. This is their job and at this time, and this is why they have risen to power.
Ironically, it is the Prime Minister’s weakness that may serve him as a strong card against Biden’s pressures. Bennett can claim that even if such a step is supported by the Left wing of the government, it would lead to the government’s collapse from the other side, because the Right-wing components of the government will not allow it.
As Prof. Eugene Kontorovich wrote simply and clearly: “Here is the simple message to send to Bennet: if you agree to a consulate now, you can’t even argue that Biden forced you. Everyone sees they are in no position to force anything. Instead, you should use the diplomatic gift of this visit to firmly declare Israel’s commitment to full sovereignty in Jerusalem, with no foreign consulates, as well as building homes for families in Yehuda v’Shomron . Biden is in no position to have a diplomatic fight with an ally now”.
A broken reed
Beyond the political discourse that the Prime Minister is expected to conduct in the U.S., he and we must take in the pictures from Afghanistan and internalize their lesson: It is not the U.S. that will pay the price for its hasty and impulsive moves, but the local people who are left behind after the American forces pack up and disappear.
Any such promises of security guarantees and support are only good for the time in which they are uttered. Governments change, presidents change, decisions change, and we would be left alone to deal with the consequences.
Don’t be discouraged – we can have an influence
We must not allow a dangerous attitude of apathy to take us over. The heads of the YESHA Council and the Land of Israel Lobby in the Knesset have set out this week in a protest demonstration in front of the Prime Minister’s office due to a number of warning signals that were lit up this week:
For the first time, building permits for Jews in Judea and Samaria became dependent on permits granted to Arabs. As if to create a linkage in building permits between the two sides, and this, despite the unrestrained rampage of illegal building by Arabs in the PA in Area C.
According to the plan, building permits in the area are given to PA Arabs that will divide Gush Etzion in two and becomes a noose around the Jewish communities that will strangle them.
Along with permitting two thousand housing units for the Jews living in Judea and Samaria, thousands of planned buildings were removed from the agenda, despite having obtained all of the professional permits. In Binyamin Council the injustice cries out to the heavens, when out of two thousand housing units, only 14 were approved and even these might not come to fruition.
On top of all this, there is also real concern over giving Israeli permission to establish an American consulate for the Arabs of the PA, which would mean recognition of the division of Jerusalem.
The Council heads’ protest is important, primarily because it is a way to obligate us to take part in it. We are at a critical point in time, which obligates us to mobilize ourselves to prevent results that would be disastrous for the future of the State of Israel and the People of Israel. We must express our protest and demand our leaders to return to the values of Zionism backed by a broad national consensus: sovereignty, settlement, security, Judaism and aliyah.
Our message to the politicians: You were elected because of these values. You are obligated to these values and it is your privilege and duty to lead according to them.
@Ted Belman
You have no idea how bad it really is.
Israel purposely favors the Arab settlement and keeps the Jews out of Judea and Samaria.
It uses the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate laws to accomplish this.
The following article shows a very small part of it:
Women in Green who publish Sovereignty are great living Zionists in the Land of Israel. Their advice is solid.
Speculation from those who are not in the inner workings of Bennett’s circle are not necessarily vary interesting because they have no zero clue on what Bennett intends to focus in his discussions with Biden.
Many of us hate that Biden is the POTUS but an Israeli PM still has to deal with the POTUS like it or not.
You are 100% correct Peloni1986.
I believe this statement provides some very good advice, the author, however, does provide a stronger sense that Israel will have a say in the outcome of this meeting than I am convinced is likely. Of course, Bennett will say yes or no to the threats of Obama’s third term, but this US administration’s recent actions in Afghanistan which took the form of a reckless attack upon their own international image of US resolve and strength suggests, to me at least, that the outcome of Door #1 will likely be no less unpleasant than the outcome associated with Door #2. I see the Afghan betrayal as a plan too recently executed to not garner some insight from it. In truth this Afghan fiasco is simply a further result of this current administration’s resolve to maintain its independence from its public’s growing rejection of its fraudulent basis. They have upended nearly every aspect of domestic standards, and they have now embarked upon a measured and considered move to display an arbitrary neglect of previous US positions without the need of such public niceties as graded policy changes. Such abrupt changes in foreign policy are usually handled in steps or graduated policy moves. This current govt in Washington holds no need of such a mask of continuity. It is the consequence of empowering illegitimacy, and the pretense that such massive skullduggery as portrayed on Nov.3 had no vitiating consequence, when, of course, it did. So, the current regime in the US sees no consequence of abandoning 10,000 of her own people to the indelicate hands of the Taliban. What consequence can be imagined should Bennett hold to the line that Bibi erected against Obama’s first two terms when he at least made use of his allies in the US. I see this as a very difficult task that Bennett has before him and the outcome will, if I am correct, provide only poor choices. Perhaps, I am incorrect in my conclusions here, I do hope I am.
Bennet is a fucking moron. Another stolen election. Is he actually going to trust beijing biden with Israel’s security after what he has done to afghanistan?
This mission to Washington is a fools mission because if Bennett wants a statement of intent towards Israel from Biden,he will get nothing worthwhile.
And the people who own Biden & call the shots won’t be answering question from Bennett!
It will be like Bennett going to Macy’s to consult with a manikin in the men’s Clothing Department.