Settlers: Israel drafts deal to delay evacuating rogue settlement, despite eviction order

[Scurrilous]

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"Israeli settlers from an unauthorized West Bank outpost said Monday they have accepted an offer from the government to stay put for two more years, despite Israeli Supreme Court orders to evacuate them next month.

The Migron settlement, built in 2001 on what authorities say is private Palestinian land, is seen as a test case for the Israeli government’s resolve — or lack thereof — concerning unauthorized settlement outposts.

Monday’s deal, which still needs Supreme Court approval, would allow the government to delay what is likely to be a violent confrontation with the settlers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the proposal but it is still not finalized, officials say.

Under the proposal, Israel would build an entirely new settlement on a nearby hilltop to house the evicted Migron dwellers, said Migron spokesman Itay Chemo. The decision comes despite an Israeli promise to the U.S. that it would not initiate new settlements in the West Bank, nor expand existing ones."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/settlers-israel-drafts-deal-to-delay-evacuating-rogue-settlement-despite-eviction-order/2012/02/13/gIQAVxlOAR_story.html

[Jefferson23]

1. Promises promises...a piece here, a piece there..it adds up year after year. n/t

[Scurrilous]

2. As the Illegal Outpost of Migron Goes, So Goes All of Israel

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"The fate of Migron, an illegal outpost in the heart of the West Bank, is about to be decided. The implications of this decision are about far more than the future of a handful of settlers in a single outpost. This decision will be a litmus test of Israeli rule of law and, ultimately, of Israel's capacity to make peace with the Palestinians.

How can one outpost be so important?

Outposts are settlements that have been built in the West Bank without Israeli government authorization, in violation of Israeli law. Migron is the flagship of the settlers' illegal outpost enterprise -- one of the largest and most developed outposts and the shining symbol of the settlers' determination to overcome the Israeli government's longstanding policy against establishing new settlements.

Migron is an open-and-shut case of theft, the physical embodiment of the settlers' contempt for Israeli law. Migron is built entirely on land that Israel recognizes as privately-owned by Palestinians. Its establishment and expansion over the past decade epitomizes the corruption that is endemic in Israel's rule in the West Bank, since neither could have taken place without Israeli government officials aiding and abetting settlers' law-breaking.

And the persistence of Migron's existence -- despite its blatant illegality and despite repeated Israeli government promises to dismantle it imminently -- discloses the settlers' and the Israeli government's flagrant disregard for Israeli law and the Israeli Supreme Court."

http://peacenow.org/entries/as_the_illegal_outpost_of_migron_goes_so_goes_all_of_israel_huffington_post

[azurnoir]

3. Classic Zionism in Migron

Our role as Zionists is still not finished: Our rabbis teach us that “The poor of your own city take priority” (Talmud, Baba Metzia.) Classic Zionist challenges still confront us, as they did in the days of the pioneers. The Sarahs, Daliahs and Rinahs have not finished their task of holding on to the Nachal settlements in the Sinai. They and their children are needed to continue settling the Promised Land - all of it.

Yes, the hilltop settlers in Judea and Samaria are the modern successors of the same settlement movement that Yosef Trumpeldor worked for in Tel Chai, Shlomo Ben Yosef in Rosh Pina and Rabbi Shtamper in Petach Tikva. Settlement of Judea and Samaria has led to the renewal of the concepts of working the land, planting vineyards and development of the wine industry in this region during the last two decades.

This is the realization of the words of the prophet Jeremiah, simply put: “You will yet plant vineyards in the Samarian hills.” (Jeremiah 71:4). Rocky hills, which for hundreds and thousands of years had not been cultivated, are again favoring their residents, who are building homes, planting vineyards, and bearing native sons and daughters on them.

Now, a large percentage of the founders of hilltop communities and their residents are the second generation in Judea and Samaria - sons and daughters who were born, raised and educated there. The descriptive phrase “salt of the earth” is well suited to many of the leading forces of the settlement expansion movement today. They are handsome, educated youth, devoted to the Zionist ideal of settling the Land and establishing Israeli society within it, ready to give their time and their strength for the good of the nation.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4187971,00.html

well IMO the shenanigans being played out here are "classic" something, and if that;s Zionism then