Prominent Yesha figure rejects government aid to Kiryat Arba: “If it redeems land that will go to Arabs, I’ll pass on the money.”
Former MK and Yesha leader Elyakim Haetzni, of Kiryat Arba, rejected the initiative of the government to strengthen Kiryat Arba and the Jewish settlement in Hevron with 50 million shekels.
“You can’t buy us with 50 million nor with 500 million. My heart aches. If that money is used to redeem land that will in the end go to Arabs, then I’ll pass on the money.”
According to Haetzni, it’s been years now since the Israeli government has built in the municipality of Kiryat Arba, for fear of infringing on Palestinian land. “Hills 26 and 28 are state land, as determined by the Supreme Court, they belong to the municipality of Kiryat Arba. The year Hallel Ariel HY”D was born, Nati Ozri was murdered in his home on hill 26, Shabbat eve, at point-blank range.
“Several days later police came and removed his family from the hill. Hill 18 is also state land, but they don’t settle it, because it is thirty meters from Kiryat Arba and in between is an Arab olive grove. The government suggested that we build a bridge there but in the end they changed their mind, since a bridge would create shade and take light from the olive trees.
“They destroyed the home of Uzi Sharbaf a couple weeks ago because it went over the line a couple millimeters, and G-d forbid that we should steal even a millimeter from the Palestinian State.
Haetzni also points to the Cave of the Patriarchs and the “House of Peace,” where Jews also may not live despite houses being bought. “This cynical harassment is beyond words.”
He calls on the Prime Minister to stop making excuses, and to repair the injustice. “Netanyahu obeys the American dictates. Our ghetto remains closed and the Arabs continue to build.
“Therefore I call on Netanyahu today, the answer to terror is to put up ten caravans on Hill 18 and Hill 26, that’s the answer to murderers. As long as that’s not happening, don’t bribe us with your money. The land of Israel is not for sale.”
Agreed. The current governmental system says otherwise, so I have proposed a solution to the governmental resistance to the truth.
@ deanblake:
Do you first of all believe the Arabs with tree have real title and ancient rights????? They stole it from someone and eventually someone stole them from the original rightful owners the Jews…..
Under Common Law in the USA we do not have the Doctrine of Ancient Lights which would protect the Arab olive trees from the shade of a bridge. You can build a fence if it interferes with a scenic view or casts a shadow. Has this ancient law ever been tested in Israel? Maybe it should be; then settle with the Arab over replacing the land and trees with property elsewhere rather than risk changing the law and having the bridge built and loosing the value of the land entirely.
@ bernard ross:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/214667
yaalon should be subpoenaed to the soldiers trial for his public instruction to his military subordinates: investigators, prosecutors and judges… to find the soldier guilty. They were only following orders. He influenced the investigators, the prosecutors and the judges… once they perceived that his public declaration was a disguised order to find him guilty they of course complied. the soldiers attorney needs to show how yaalons behavior renders the trial a mistrial.
After the soldiers trial mandebilt must do his job by indicting yaalon for his abuse of authority and obstruction of justice for the soldier and the jewish victims of duma.
mandebilt is very busy doing nothing but when it comes to the real crimes of yaalon he is suspiciously silent.