Regavim responds to report that Likud thwarted initiative to raise illegal PA construction issue for Knesset discussion.
The Regavim movement to preserve Israel’s national lands and return of rule of law attacked the Likud today following a report in Yediot Ahronot newspaper that the party thwarted a discussion initiated by the movement that was planned to take place in the Knesset plenum on the issue of illegal Palestinian Authority construction.
The background to the discussion is data published by Regavim in recent days, according to which in the past ten years no less than 28,000 illegal Palestinian structures have been built in Area C, the areas of Judea and Samaria under full Israeli control under the Oslo Accords.
According to the report, after the Likud understood that the discussion was about illegal construction committed during Netanyahu’s tenure, Likud MKs who supported holding a special session on the matter were asked to withdraw their signatures.
Regavim was particularly furious at the Likud Spokesman reaction to the report, who said “we oppose and act against illegal Palestinian construction, but we won’t cooperate with cynical exercises by the opposition and the Left to garner media headlines.”
Regavim noted, “In the last decade, the Palestinians have been encouraging European countries to take over large areas of Area C as part of the Fayyad Plan for establishing a Palestinian state,” they said.
“If the just, moral, and right struggle against the ongoing failure that allows the establishment of a terror state around the corner turns the Regavim movement into the Left then we’re a proud Left,” countered Regavim.
The movement says, “it was clear to us that Likud members would lead the discussion, and we welcome the Likud members who signed the request to discuss the matter and expect Likud leadership to withdraw its opposition to holding this important discussion.”
Guess Israelis will have a choice in September who to vote for ‘dumb or dumber ‘ may the fool in the pointy hat and red nose win
I don’t understand how this situation was allowed to proliferate on ISRAELI land. It’s not like 28 THOUSAND dwellings, a good sized city, magically emerged, like mushrooms, overnight. Some of them near, or on, well travelled highways. Which means the government was fully aware of these EU funded illegally created facts on the ground. They must be demolished rapidly, overnight. Not one at a time encouraging lawsuits and international wailing. All illegal occupants placed into emergency accomodation in areas A and B. No it is not too harsh. If I build a child’s cubby house without council permit, I would be ordered to demolish it, at my expense and fined for every day I leave it after the order. If I am not fast enough, council workers do the job, for which I would be charged.
Kvetching is no substitute for action. Just do it.
Strike while the iron is hot and Trump is still in office.
Those who will be called to vote in September should specifically question Likud party members on this issue, and not let them weasel out of an answer. If this report is true, it may change the way people vote. And that is the way to get your policies enacted.