3 Av 5776
Sunday, August 7 2016
UPDATES 8 am Israel time:
…Palestinian terror yesterday unreported in the mainstream media…
*At Burin, an IDF soldier was wounded in the head by a “rock” and had to be transported to Beilinson Hospital by military ambulance.
*Other “rock” attacks took place in Issa, Yabad, Nazlat, Bethany, Abu Dis, Beit Ummar, and on Road 443 near Ariel and Tazabrim,
*A shooting attack occurred at Adam last night. Remarkably, no one was wounded in the car that was riddled with bullets.
*Palestinian rioters assaulted security personnel in Silwan, Hevron, Qalandiya, Jalazun, Beita, Shechem, and Hizma.
*Molotov firebombs set fire to a Jewish home on the Mt. of Olives and a bus traveling in Gush Etzion near Khader. More Molotovs targeted an Israeli motorist at the Rahelim Junction.
…In Syria, the decisive battle of Aleppo continues…
Note the red pro-Assad area in the middle of the city, currently defended by regular Syrian army soldiers, Hezbollah, and Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Shi’ite mercenaries. Attacking from both sides are Syrian “rebels”.
Both sides maintain they have the upper hand. One thing, however, is certain: Hezbollah forces are bearing the brunt the fight to stop “rebel” forces–and by all accounts (including rebel ones), they are fighting well.
However not so well that they are not suffering major losses.
This grainy picture from a rebel website apparently shows Hezbollah and Iranian dead from the battle yesterday.
This morning, Hezbollah is rushing in reinforcements.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Imagine that you are a member of one of 42 families which are residents of Amona.
Your home was built in 1995 when the community was founded. Previously a barren, rocky hilltop, your home was built with implicit Israeli government approval inasmuch as the government provided electricity and other utilities.
Then, in 1997 along comes Peace Now and Yesh Din which file a petition with the Civil Administration and with the Israel Supreme Court claiming that the rocky, barren land on which your home is built is actually “privately-owned” Palestinian “agricultural” land. More specifically, the petition says that the land is jointly owned by three Palestinian settlements: Silwad, Ein Yabrud, and Taybeh.
A home that was destroyed in 2006 (the sign reads “Every home destroyed is a victory for Hamas).
The Supreme Court immediately accepts the petition and orders your home and those of your neighbors to be razed. You decide to fight to keep your home. The demolition orders are delayed. In October 2004, Peace Now and Yesh Din again petition the court to demolish all homes in Amona. You continue to resist, and in the process, Amona comes to symbolize the entire Jewish community movement in Judea and Samaria.
Finally on February 1, 2006, ten thousand Israel Police, Border Police, and IDF soldiers show up on your doorstep and forcibly throw you out of your house.
All that remains of your house is:
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However, not all homes in Amona are destroyed, and your neighbors take you in. From 2008 through 2013, Peace Now and Yesh Din repeatedly petition the Court, and representatives from Amona and the government repeatedly resist.
In 2013, the Court awards 300,000 shekels to 6 Palestinian plaintiffs supposedly affected by the Amona community, and rules that the State has to pay more if the entire community is not evacuated by December 2015.
The Court adds that “it makes no difference if some of the land had been legally purchased since the community was established in 1995.”
Yes, you read that correctly.
In the meantime, the Court eventually sets another evacuation/demolition date, this time December 25, 2016.
Now a new compromise is being offered to you Amona residents.
According to the terms of the compromise, the entire community of Amona will be uprooted and moved just down the road to a location near Ofra, and reconstituted on “private Palestinian land.”
Yes you read that correctly.
Private Palestinian land for which there are no apparent owners–land that has been judged to be appropriate for Jewish construction because the owners are “absentee.” In other words, the “owners” are nowhere to be found nor have they been for decades.
The compromise calls for the relocated Amona residents to sign a three year lease from the government, with lease monies to be held by the government for the Palestinians “landowners” should they ever suddenly reappear.
And of course who knows who will reappear once there is money to be had.
The leases are renewable at the end of each three year period.
But if the “owners” should reappear, the relocated Amona residents will be required to leave their homes, and they will be destroyed.
Now if you were an Amona resident would you accept this compromise?
The choice is between continuing the fight for your current home with the knowledge that you will almost certainly be kicked out, or relocating to a new area in which you will almost certainly be kicked out.
What would you do?
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.