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  2. Ted, this new city, Nueimah, in the Jordan Valley City issue is not black and white.

    Nueimah is meant to take in Jahalin Bedouins who are evicted from E-1.

    You see it as an intolerable concession to the Arabs.

    The Arabs see it as an intolerable eviction of Arabs to make concessions to the Jewish state to expand Ma’ale Adumin.

    I am sure you don’t want the Arabs near Ma’ale Adumin.

    Yet, you don’t want them in Nueimah in the Jordan Valley.

    You do not want them here. You do not want them there.

    This is a documentary about the Jahalin Arabs who are being evicted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOxwVlGn0R4

    I am sure you do not argree with the documentary’s point of view.

    But this is not black and white.

    Kerry was told it was Israel’s generous heart.

    No! Israel just wants the Bedouins out of E-1. The Beduoins themselves are furious about that.

    Here is the Jewish point of view.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/268173#.Ua5Mdj619ac

    “The government is freezing building for the Jews and giving the Palestinians a gift of state land.”

    But the Bedouins of Jahalin see it differenty.

    http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/approves-construction-transfer.html

    Israel has announced construction of a large-scale village near Jericho that planners are calling a “dump site” for Palestinian Bedouins residing outside of Jerusalem.

    This is NOT black and white.

    Israel has a motive in this.

    You want E-1 closed to secure Jerusalem. Well moving the Beduoins to Nueimah in the Jordan Valley is one way to do it.

    You see it as an outrage to give them Nueimah

    http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/approves-construction-transfer.html

    “It’s totally motivated by political inspirations to try to push as many Bedouins into Area C, near Area A,” said Shlomo Lecker, an Israeli human rights attorney representing al-Khan al-Ahmar. Lecker has been working with the Jahalin Bedouin for over a decade, but said the Nueimah plan is the most far-reaching yet. According to Lecker, the proposal to move the Jahalin was initated 13 years ago. At the time residents petitioned the high court and eventually the plan was rejected. But subsequent transfers have been carried out. Two years ago the Jahalin and Lecker worked with government planners to develop a suitable new locality near Abu Dis. But the Nueimah plan appears to be a comprehensive effort that could relocate the 3,000 remaining Bedouins.

    They see it as an outrage to move them from what they consider their own lands.

    So which is more important to you:

    Closing E-1 and securing Jeruslaem, or keeping them out of the Jordan Valley.

    This is not black and white.

    You see it as Israel caving in to PA pressure.

    The Jahalin Arabs see it as Israel throwing them out of their land; and putting on a facade of generosity.

    http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/approves-construction-transfer.html
    “It’s up on the top of a mountain with no shade, no work, 46 degrees (114 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer,” said Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, an advocacy officer with the Jahalin Association, al-Khan al-Ahmar. Some of the land belongs to other Palestinian villages and “it’s next to the main Palestinian preventive security compound on one side, the village of Nueimah, an Israeli settlement, and an Israeli checkpoint,” she continued.

    Because Nueimah is enclosed by structures, the Jahalin have wholly rejected the plan. Instead they are working with Lecker to develop an alternative that allows them to stay, albeit legally and with access to roads and public services.

    This is not as wishy-washy as you think.

  4. FIFTY MORE POLICE to deal with price tag. The government received budgetary approval for 50 additional policemen to fight Jewish vandalism or “price tag” operations. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168054 –

    Now, put that in context of ongoing Arab attacks against Jews on roads and everywhere else. ~~~ And this: Jewish Press just reported that 6 Greenpeace activists managed to infiltrate Noble Energy’s off-shore gas terminal in Ashdod. They remained undetected for 90 minutes. Nobody watching.~~~ Yisrael Hayom has an article on the ancient city of Samaria, capital of the kingdom of Israel for a while (near today’s PA settlement of Sebastia) being looted by Arabs because the Israeli govt does not have the resources or the motivation to protect it.

  5. Bibi probably was forced into making this concession. Ted Belman

    Forced??? How was he forced???

    I am always amazed when Israeli leaders betray the Israeli people and apologists proffer the excuse that they were somehow forced.

    You can’t force someone to do what he is perfectly willing to do in the first place. IMO BB and previous PM’s use America as a fig leaf for doing what their constituents and or opposition oppose.

    If there is no palace revolt within the Likud BB will do whatever he pleases and maybe what doesn’t please him. Yaalon is no better, not even right wing. Begin caved to the weakest American President in modern history and BB is following in his footsteps.

    If the Likud does not stop BB, nobody will. THEY WON’T!!

  6. HOW MANY MORE ARE THERE? The issue now is to list and map all other new illegal Arab takeovers of Jewish land – and draw up a plan of action before they grow to the point where the pusillanimous authorities can claim it’s too late to evict them. Because every one of those squatter camps is another potential legalized Arab or Bedouin city. What is the red line to mobilize the Jews? One Arab tent? A dozen shacks? A hundred houses?

    A big part of this conflict is the struggle for territory. The enemy uses any means at their disposal to advance. Jews talk a lot, but it’s the Arabs who are making great gains in land and diplomacy. Jews need to get ahead of the Arabs’ game – and ahead of Israeli duplicitous authorities.