T. Belman. Both Netanyahu and Gantz are responsible for allowing this construction to go on and for not demolishing all such buildings. They are also the ones responsible for allowing all the smuggling to take place in Gaza and for making Israel dependent on the US for resupply. They are also responsible for the IDF lowering its guard leading to Oct 7.
And they are the people we are looking to to prosecute the War on Hamas.
We need a new conception.
Regavim reveals that the PA has built 18,899 illegal buildings in Area C on the Judea and Samaria border.
Tamar Sikorel, Regavim spokeswoman, discussed the threat that has been brewing for years along the Green Line. without any binding response from Israel: “Regavim maps the areas of Judea and Samaria, as well as the Negev. Now, following the Gaza war and the explosion of the conspiracy in the Gaza Strip, we have decided to undertake a special inspection operation of what is happening on the seam line. We have mapped the entire length of the fence from the north of the Jordan Valley to the south of the Dead Sea, a distance of about three hundred kilometers, up to one to four kilometers from the fence. This of course is Area C, an area that is completely controlled by Israel and is supposed to be sterile, guarding the security of the cities in the center, the coastal plain, and Ben Gurion airport.”
Sikorel continued: “The data we found is frightening and threatening, telling an explicit and clear story: The PA has built 18,899 illegal structures along this line that are sitting right on the fence – for example, in the IDF training area in the Samaria region, whose proximity to Rosh Ha’ayin is ridiculous, and overlooks Benny Gantz’s personal balcony.”
“The statement we are trying to hone now is that it is true that there is illegal construction that needs to be fought against, but there is illegal construction that also poses a real danger; a ticking bomb. It does not depend on whether we withdraw from there or not. This involves a moment’s decision by the Palestinian Authority, as a leading terrorist organization, to turn its guns on the center of the country. Maybe it’s time to wake up here as well and realize that abandoning this area could lead to disaster, as we saw in the Gaza Strip.”
Sikorel called on each individual to “open our eyes and ears” and pointed out that the PA itself has been saying this publicly for years. “They themselves have been claiming it. They have a minister for fence and settlement affairs. They have entire departments of planning and construction, and they invest all their energies in terrorism and taking over territory, with their goal being the establishment of a terrorist state in the heart of Israel. They say it all the time and at every opportunity. For them it is not the borders of ’67, but ‘from the river to the sea.’ They repeat it everywhere, and the funds that flow from all over the world go towards this initiative.”
Sikorel added that Regavim has been showing the data to the decision-makers, but in general it is difficult to draw their attention to these issues and the answer that they receive is that this is random construction of those who have no other place to live.
“In the meantime, we do not feel a dramatic change in the attitudes of the heads of the security forces and the Israeli leadership, or in their understanding of the situation. It seems that they are still clinging to the old concepts that want to see the Palestinians as partners and the existing reality as normal, and do not consider it in terms of terrorism and of taking over the territory,” she concluded.
When Israeli “settlers” do what the Palestinisns are doing, a swat team turns up within 24 hours to tear down whatever was put up. The settlers have no other place to live. If you don’t believe that, check out real estate prices in Israel.
Very important information from Regavim. The Judea-Samaria Jewish communities (“settlers:_) are sitting ducks for attacks by all the Palestinian terrorist organizations, Also, all the Jewish communities in the Negev.. I have no idea how the Arabs living in close proximity to Jewish communities can be either persuaded or forced to leave Eretz Israel without severe “international repercussions” directed against Israel. I hope that someone will figure out a strategy to accomplish this some day.