No explanation is given for why the Cabinet Committee rejected it.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation rejected Sunday a bill that would have placed the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria under Israeli sovereignty. The bill would have removed the threat of “construction freezes” and similar steps from the communities in Judea and Samaria, by taking them out of the jurisdiction of the Defense Ministry.
The bill was sponsored by MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), Chairman of the National Union party. It was co-signed by all the other members of the NU, as well as 22 coalition MKs – including most of the Knesset’s Likud faction. However, the Committee’s rejection of the bill means that all coalition MKs are expected to vote against it when it comes up for a vote in the plenum Wednesday.
The bill was first proposed four years ago by then-MK Rabbi Benny Elon, and was co-signed by numerous Likud MKs – including Binyamin Netanyahu; the Likud was in the Opposition at the time. The bill foundered, but it was re-submitted by MK Katz in the present Knesset and came up for a vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation one year ago. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Ketzaleh to postpone the vote for three months, and Ketzaleh agreed.
Since then, the Committee – which is headed by Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman – has ignored requests by Ketzaleh to discuss the bill again. Minister Benny Begin, who has been the acting head of the committee lately, declared that “an injustice has been done to the NU” and that he would raise the bill for a vote in the committee posthaste.
The Committee voted unanimously against the bill. Besides Ne’eman and Begin, the Committee includes Ministers Gideon Saar, Yuli Edelstein, Gilad Erdan, Moshe Cachlon, Michael Eitan, Limor Livnat, Dan Meridor, Yossi Peled, Yisrael Katz, and Yuval Steinitz (all of the LIkud), Yitzchak Aharonovich, Sofa Landver, Orit Noked, Stas Misezhnikov, Meshulam Nahari, Daniel Hershkowitz, Yaakov Mergi and Shalom Simchon.
Knesset Coalition Chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) put pressure on Ketzaleh to withdraw the bill yet again, so as to save Likud embarrassment. However, Ketzaleh refused.
“On Wednesday,” Ketzaleh said, “the Nation of Israel will have to see with its own eyes who is loyal to the Land of Israel in talk and signatures but turns his back on it when the time comes for action – and who is truly loyal.”
“It now turns out,” he added, “that those who accepted the shameful slogan ‘two states for two peoples,’ and those who froze the communities of Judea and Samaria and wanted to freeze them a second time, were not acting in earnest when they themselves signed the bill.”
More christian ignorance and gibberish.
Hope = Desire + Expectancy!
Faith is what enables hope to endure. Faith that G-d is the keeper of his word.
Psalm 118 is the keystone to G-d’s faithful fulfillment of His covenant with Israel. He is setting the stage in order that He alone will be glorified. It will not be the appeasers in Knesset, the IDF, the UN, the Quartet, the USA, the righteousness of the observant Orthodox Jews nor the prayers of the many gentile Christians … rather the coming King of Israelalong with the armies of heaven. It is he who will silence all our enemies and lead Israel into an age of righteous leadership in the world, with total victory over her enemies and the enemies of G-d! This He will do not because of our deserving acts of merit, but to glorify his name and preserve his reputation to all men. (Ezekiel 36:22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.”)
Bless His name & blessed is he who comes in His name!
1 Give thanks to the L-RD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
2 Let Israel say:
“His love endures forever.”
3 Let the house of Aaron say:
“His love endures forever.”
4 Let those who fear the L-RD say:
“His love endures forever.”
5 When hard pressed, I cried to the L-RD;
he brought me into a spacious place.
6 The L-RD is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
7 The L-RD is with me; he is my helper.
I look in triumph on my enemies.
8 It is better to take refuge in the L-RD
than to trust in humans.
9 It is better to take refuge in the L-RD
than to trust in princes.
10 All the nations surrounded me,
but in the name of the L-RD I cut them down.
11 They surrounded me on every side,
but in the name of the L-RD I cut them down.
12 They swarmed around me like bees,
but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;
in the name of the L-RD I cut them down.
13 I was pushed back and about to fall,
but the L-RD helped me.
14 The L-RD is my strength and my defense[a];
he has become my salvation.
15 Shouts of joy and victory
resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The L-RD’s right hand has done mighty things!
16 The L-RD’s right hand is lifted high;
the L-RD’s right hand has done mighty things!”
17 I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the L-RD has done.
18 The L-RD has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open for me the gates of the righteous;
I will enter and give thanks to the L-RD.
20 This is the gate of the L-RD
through which the righteous may enter.
21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
you have become my salvation.
22 The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
23 the L-RD has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 The L-RD has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad.
25 L-RD, save us!
L-RD, grant us success!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the L-RD.
From the house of the L-RD we bless you.
27 The L-RD is G-d,
and he has made his light shine on us.
With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession
up to the horns of the altar.
28 You are my G-d, and I will praise you;
you are my G-d, and I will exalt you.
29 Give thanks to the L-RD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Be ever ready, watchful and faithful! Your faith will give your hope endurance in the days to come.
Remain of good courage.
Time to wake up Israel and secure the land G-d provided and forget what goyim will say or thinks.
Maybe it will help to take a cue from an American song. “This land is our land, this land is my land from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean, including Samaria and Judea, this is the land G-d proclaimed our land.
I am not good at song writing. But I think you get the idea.
“Moshe began to explain the Torah, saying, The L-rd our G-d spoke to us in Horev saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain, turn and take up your journey….”
Where does he tell them to go? To the Land of Israel. Rabbi Kook emphasized that in this very first lesson of Moses, we are taught that the Torah is NOT meant to be practiced outside of the Land of Israel. Rather, the Torah and its commandments were given to be performed in Eretz Yisrael, as G-d declares: “Behold I have set the Land before you, go in and possess the Land which the L-rd swore to your forefathers, Avraham, Yitzhak, and Yaacov, to give to them and to their seed after them” (Devarim,Deuteronomy 1:8).
The language, “go in and possess the Land,” is a commandment of the Torah – the commandment to conquer and settle the Land of Israel.
What is the first thing that Moses stresses when he begins to explain the Torah? Not Shabbat. Not synagogue services. Not Torah study, all of which are essential to Judaism. Moses begins by telling us that the Land of Israel is the foundation of all of the Torah and the foundation of the life of the Jewish People. G-d gave us the Torah to keep it in Israel. Why is the Land of Israel so important? Because the Torah is much much more than the observance of individual mitzvot like putting on tefillin and keeping kosher. The Torah is the constitution of the Jewish Nation, the Nation that is to bring the word of G-d to the world, not merely through righteous individuals, but through the doings of all the Nation, in its holy NATIONAL format of Jewish soldiers, Jewish farmers, and Jewish kings. Everyone knows that to have one’s own nation, one needs one’s own land. And the Jewish People need a special Land that enables prophecy and the building of the Beit HaMikdash in Jerusalem. Everywhere else we are a minority in someone else’s land, living in a foreign culture, at the mercy of the non-Jews.
“And the L-rd said to Abraham, Go to Monsey NY or Mount Horeb WI”
The problem with Israel is that it is still frightened by all of its might and Divine assistance, and acts as if it were still a persecuted minority in a foreign land. After 2000 years in exile, it takes a while to give up the galut mentality and to stop being afraid of what the goyim will say. Lucky for us that Yehoshua Ben Nun (Joshua) wasn’t a typical Diaspora lover. If he had been, when Hashem commanded him to bring the Jews into the Land of Israel, he would have answered, “Sorry, find some other sucker. First, clean out the Philistines and the seven hostile nations, and get rid of all the idol worship, and then we’ll think about coming.”
No, your comment is right there where you put it when you hit “Post Comment”. Computers don’t make mistakes. Or do they?
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You’re both right. How in hell does Israel expect to attract Jews nationalistic enough to move to Israel, when all the successive governments of Israel set up Jewish settlements not to fulfill the manifest destiny of the Jewish nation, but just to serve as pawns to trade off with Israel’s enemies in so-called peace negotiations which never accomplish anything other than to set the stage for the next war?
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
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This is another reason I could never vote Likud!
What were you expecting? Ketzaleh brought up the bill knowing it would not be approved but to embarrass those phonies who sit under the right-wing banner but are little different than the Judenrat of a past infamous time.
Where is your Feiglin in all of this? I would have announced that” We ( M,Y ) now have your names ” and we will do everything possible to keep every likud minister, who voted against, off the likud list or beyond a safe slot in he next primary elections.
Any personal dirt I could scrape up on any of the committee members I would post to the net and to anyone willing to publish. I would supply where applicable same to the State Inspector.
What a terrible national disgrace we are.