Palestinian Authority-controlled Shechem is allocating 300 tractors to plow and claim land near Jewish communities in Samaria.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN
Palestinian Authority-controlled Shechem is allocating 300 tractors to plow and claim land in 25 locations near Jewish communities in Samaria, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.
Shechem governor Jibreel al-Bakri said that helping Arab farmers to cultivate the land is an unprecedented action. The PA will provide farmers with fuel for their tractors.
The lands include areas the Israeli Defense Forces has declared to be closed military zones, al-Bakri added. “We decided to reach these lands…without any exceptions” and every acre will be plowed, he added.
The Palestinian Authority in the past decade has taken over thousands of acres of land that is not under any private ownership but which Israel has in effect surrendered by not acting against Arab and international leftist groups who routinely take over farmland that either lay fallow or had been farmed by Jews.
The “benign neglect” policy of Israel has allowed the Palestinian Authority, funded in large part by the European Union, to become a dominant presence in areas of Jewish settlement.
European funds are used to pay Arabs to live in new and unregulated communities, many of which begin with only one house and quickly expand into an entire neighborhood.
The new Palestinian Authority effort continues a trend blocking against any pioneering efforts by Jews in Judea and Samaria.
One expects nothing better from the local Muslims, but the passivity of the Israeli government in the face of this blatant theft of the Jewish People’s heritage is unspeakable. Such squatting should be stopped the moment it happens. Squatters should be warned off, then arrested, and their structures broken up. Equipment used for such theft should be confiscated.
Just another arab land grab, they’re really good at that because moslems are liars and thieves at heart; dirty rotten chislers.
It wasn’t enough for the Europeans to drive Jews out of Europe. Seven decades after the holocaust, it is collaborating with islam to expel the Jews from their own homeland. Europe’s treachery against the Jews knows no bounds.
A jewish state of Judea should be declared by the settlers, recognized by the next PM of Israel (with cojones) and Canada.