This is extremely serious and may be good news. It will be very destructive to the peace process on many levels and I think liberate Israel. The EU argues that we can’t build there because we are an occupying power. But this is tenuous at best. We can unilaterally declare our borders although agreement for new borders was required by R242. We are entitled by this resolution to keep some of the land. If they don’t like what we decide to keep, then they will have concede a lot more land 2% of the land. How about 20% to 40% of the land. Ted Belman
The EU plans a “land grab” in Judea and Samaria, seeking to gain PA control of Area C, in violation of the Oslo Accords.
By David Lev, INN
The battle for control of Judea and Samaria – and specifically Area C, which, according to the Oslo Accords, is under Israeli military and political control – may come down to a “horse race,” if the European Union decides to act on a policy paper that was published by Hebrew daily Yediot Achronot Thursday. According to the document, “Area C and Palestinian state building,” the EU plans to encourage, and fund, Arab building and development in Area C, without bothering to seek Israeli approval for projects, and in violation of laws regarding zoning, security, and the environment.
Under the Oslo Accords, Judea and Samaria is divided into three areas:
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Area A, which is fully administered by the PA, and which Israelis are banned from even entering – both by Israel and the PA;
Area B, which is formally under Israeli security control, but is under PA control for all other purposes; and
Area C, consisting for the most part of the “settlement blocs,” such as Gush Etzion, Ma’aleh Adumim, and the Jewish towns in Samaria in the vicinity of Ariel.
Some 90% of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria live in Area C, while the PA Arab population of the area is barely 6%.
Nevertheless, the EU document makes it clear the Europeans intends to ensure a future Arab state in Judea and Samaria does not “lose” Area C, in order to ensure territorial contiguity between PA-controlled areas. The best way to do that, the document says, is to create “facts on the ground” – projects by and for PA Arabs, building more homes and communities for them, expanding the territories occupied by Arab towns, and attracting more PA Arabs to live in these new neighborhoods.
The document, in effect, would abrogate the Oslo Accords, forcing a new political reality on Israel, in which the entity that came into existence as a result of the accords simply abandons them.
According to the accords, Israel is the legal administrator of Area C until a final status agreement is completed.
However, the document makes no mention of cooperating with Israel or seeking permits for any of the proposed projects, and the report quoted a Western diplomat as saying that the EU has no intention of seeking such permission. “What Europe is essentially saying here is that because Area C is vital for sustaining a viable Palestinian state, we will support whatever needs to be done for the sale of Palestinian development in the area regardless of Israel’s planning policy,” the paper quoted the diplomat as saying.
Israeli law requires that all building in Israel proper or in Area C be conducted with permits, and while authorities are quite vigilant in enforcing the law against Israelis and Jews, they are far more lax when it comes to Arabs. But Jewish residents of Samaria said that the EU initiative would be too much even for Israel to ignore.
“In the end we are going to have no choice but to declare sovereignty, at least on Area C, because if we do not it will end up with the same status as Area A. The EU is forcing on us a decision we should have made a long time ago. The only answer to this initiative is massive building by Israel and the settling of tens of thousands of more Jews in Area C, fulfilling the dictum of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to grab as much land as possible, before the other side does,” the residents said.
HERE is a rather impassioned diatribe against the Yesha Council. It’s pretty inflammatory; but I remember listening on the internet as the ethnic cleansing unfolded. First, Shas and Likud-Bibi stayed in Sharon’s government right up to the Judenrein date. When Bibi finally left, after it was politically impossible to stop the evacuation, the Haredim joined the Sharon government and betrayed the Jews of Gush Katif. RIGHT UP TO THE HOUR that the storm troopers closed in on the poorly-equipped defenders, the Yesha Council led huge demonstrations to…
…to do nothing. Then they stood aside, and let the brownshirts do their thing. They filled the settlers with false hope, then abandoned them.
If you want to know who’s in charge of the “bluster factory” that pumps out hot air on settler issues, it is the Yesha council. When it comes to actually protecting the settlers, there is nobody. A few MKs did stand on the line at Amona, and got their heads bloodied. As I recall, they were all from NU. In that incident, the gestapo charged girls and boys with German horses and clubs, Cossak-style. Several settlers were trampled underfoot by the horses. As I said, some MKs got bloodied. NOBODY bloodied the police. Amona’s in Israel, you know, and Jews just don’t do that.
Who are the leaders? Violence is the only language the Israeli government understands; but there isn’t a leader willing to use it; so effectively, there are no leaders.
Bland…thanks for the reply re leadership in Yesha. Do you understand how the yesha Council is compromised. For example, is there anybody there that accepts a Palestine State in any form in Judea and Samaria? What do they do?
The EU is a continuation of NAZI Europe.It is still upset for not killing all the Jews of Europe and Israel as was promised to the
abominable Mufti of Jerusalem.
It is truly sad to see how Europe becomes yet another retarded Muslim
country,where hatred of Jews is the name of the game , a game that will eventually lead to the destruction of the EU.
When has there ever been a time when Israel was not under tremendous pressure. Interference, especially by Europe, has always been there.
EU want Jerusalem for Arabs
The Independent published a memo to EU officials urging them to press Israel on its Area C policies. That area covers the main settlements and the security belt of Jerusalem. The memo states correctly that Israel is increasing the Jewish population there (though, we should say, very slowly) while preventing an increase in Palestinian residents (which is hardly true, because they continue to give birth in their villages at their usual rate).
Israel has stated repeatedly that we would hold much of Area C in any peace agreement with the Arabs.
Dani Dayon is the chairman of the Yesha Council, for what that’s worth. Of course the council is compromised, just like every other organ of the Israeli government. The real leadership is probably social networking, electronic or otherwise, among the hilltop youth.
In the US we have something similar happening: The Tea Party movement has become mainstream, compromised milquetoast. Serious “Tea Party” candidates, such as Huckabee and Palin, don’t even run anymore. Those who do run get shot down by the super-PACs like ducks in an arcade, after their “40 days of fame”. What you’re left with are monstrosities such as Washington-Insider-Fannie-Mae-Philanderer Newt Gingrich running as the candidate of the “Throw out the Bums” “Down with Wall Street” “Moral Majority”; and Northeaster Catholics like Santorum trying to be the champion of Southern Baptists. The “Occupy” movement, on the other hand, is still on the move. It’s the product of social networking, rather than institutionalized leadership.
Leadership is easily co-opted. What has been more effective lately, is the “swarm leadership” of social networks. You can attack them by controlling the Internet; but I doubt that the Hackernet will ever completely be controlled. Ideas will get out, one way or another; all it takes is true conviction in those ideas, and the willingness to pursue them unto death. The Islamies already use this technology, and we are trying to combat the weapon of ideas with old-fashioned bombs. That is really “assymetric warfare”. The direction of communication in the world appears to be a deadly conflict of pure ideas against pure ideas; and the ultimate STRENGTH of those ideas will not be their volume, but the truth of them.
Where is the Yesha leadership? It’s in truth, if it’s made available.
Who is the accepted Yesha leadership? Where is their political programme?
I have read the Feiglin new website (for leadership election)and I can see no concrete strategy to defeat this attack on Israel??? Please advise Shy!
Down with Oslo Accords ! The time has come to declare Israeli sovereignty at last on Area C.
Hugo
I am very impressed by your analysis especially your idea that if Jews cannot live in Jordan then Arabs cannot live in Israel. This along with spelling out that the word “West Bank” is a nonsense and that Israel includes Judea and Samaria, and that Gaza has to be won back from the hostile Arabs, while the creation of a hostile Egypt thanks to Obama support for the Arab Nightmare means a serious rethink on all “treaties” with the Arabs.
But first Hugo you need leadership…Please talk about leadership Hugo!
Is anyone surprised? The only type of Jew ,most Europeans don’t hate is a dead Jew.
Declaring sovereignty on Area C is not a good solution, as that move may be interpreted to say that Area A and B do not belong to Israel. And that would be a mistake.
But instead the government ought to promote construction in area C and rapidly. This would do wonders for the housing shortage in Israel. The price bubble in the metropolitan area on the coastal plain would relax. And this would be far better for the welfare than the adverse tax increases the hapless Trajtenberg committee has slapped on the economy.
Evidently, Israel is under foreign pressure, and often it is prudent not to react to hostile diplomatic provocations or escalate disagreements. Nevertheless, where possible, Israel must resolutely ask foreign governments to refrain from meddling in issues of its national sovereignty.
The Oslo accords have clearly not been fulfilled by the Arab party. The government should therefore strongly consider calling the Oslo agreements null and void. The agreements were dead long ago.
At the same time, Israel should insist on reciprocity. Reciprocity is applied in many countries. For example, foreigners in many European countries only receive a license to operate a bank or say a telecom, unless their home country offers the same rights. That was one of the many flaws of Oslo.
If Jews are barred from living in Jordan, the same principle of reciprocity can be invoked on Arabs in Israel. Oh well, maybe that is after all for the better.
Israel needs to start treating the EU as the enemy they are.