Cabinet expected to curtail Barak’s power to veto West Bank settlement construction on Sunday.
The proposal would revoke Barak’s right to veto West Bank construction by the World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division. The division budgets NIS 25 million a year for this purpose.
The Settlement Division was set up in 1967 after Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula. For years, it was tasked with building settlements in the West Bank and did not deal with the Negev or Galilee at all.
Attorney Talia Sasson’s report on illegal West Bank settlement outposts, which was published in March 2005 and later adopted by the cabinet, said the division mainly set up unauthorized outposts in the West Bank, without the government’s approval, including some that were on privately-owned Palestinian land.
Sasson recommended disbanding the division. The state comptroller has also castigated the division’s activity.
In 2007, the cabinet decided to move the settlement division from the Prime Minister’s Office to the Agriculture Ministry, where it was put in charge of developing rural communities in the Negev and Galilee. The cabinet earmarked 66 percent of the division’s budget for the Negev and Galilee and 34 percent – NIS 25 million a year – for the West Bank.
The decision the cabinet is expected to approve on Sunday would move the division from the Agriculture Ministry, headed by Orit Noked of Barak’s Atzmaut Party, back to the Prime Minister’s Office, where it would be subject directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Respect thine enemy
Assad could teach Israeli leaders some lessons about normality.
Faced with rebellion by hostile ethnic groups, he did not hesitate to employ whatever force necessary.
Threatened with a Turkish invasion for peacemaking purposes, Assad promised to hit Turkey with ballistic missiles.
When American officials call him, Assad does not bother to respond—quite unlike his pitiful Israeli counterparts, who allow their American masters to micromanage our policies.
The musical chairs is unnecessary. BB could override anything that the agricultural minister orders. He could even fire the agricultural minister if she does not comply. This is all BS Smoke and Mirrors and sooo BB!! Quite pathetic Both from BB and the sycophants who pose as nationalist politicians.
The right is easily convinced because they want to be. Otherwise they will be blamed for what BB is planning. They need the political cover.
By the time it becomes obvious that nothing will change BB will have given away the Kitchen sink along with the foundations of the whole house.
Stupid Jews!!!
A year will go by until the division is fully ensconced in the PM’s office. If anyone thinks that there will be any changes for the better as long as our resident eunuch sits in the PM’s office they are totally delusional. BB could override any Barak veto and he never has. Being PM means he has overall responsibility for all of his government especially the DM. As Barak thinks and does so BB thinks and does.
Barak was BB’s commander in the Sayeret Matkal, and a close friend of Yoni, killed at Entebbe Airport. I think BB is still following his old commanders orders.
It’s about time!
I’ll believe it when I see it!!! Barak seems to be joined by the hip with Bibi. That Bibi keeps on carrying him on, is quite puzzling.
This is news I’ve been waiting to hear for a long time. But I don’t much care about cabinet-shuffling and finger-pointing. I want to see rapid expansion of Jewish cities, villages and farmsteads all across Shomron and Yehuda. Either you settle it or you surely will lose it.
Simple as that.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI