In the event of Iranian attack, Leftist Jews to be moved to Samaria
The IDF and other government entities recently conducted exercises to prepare for a scenario in which there is a nuclear attack on the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. Ironically, one of the scenarios practiced was the evacuation of large numbers of Tel Aviv Leftists to Samaria. Samaria, also known as the northern part of the West Bank, is the large hilly area in the middle of Israel which lies just north of Jerusalem and east of Tel Aviv. Since Jewish towns exist there alongside Arab villages, it is widely assumed that Arab enemies would be less likely to attack the region for fear of harming Arab/Muslim population centers.The Obama administration has recently attempted to link 'progress' on the 'Palestinian' front with American willingness to help Israel deflect the Iranian threat. This has become known in Israel as "Yitzhar for Bushehr" (Yitzhar being a Jewish town in northern Samaria). But Mesika says that Yitzhar for Bushehr is the right name for a formula that is not exactly what Obama has in mind.
“At present,” [Samarian Regional Council head Gershon] Mesika writes in an article that will appear in the Our Land of Israel weekly publication this Friday, “the reality is that over five million people live in Gush Dan, the area known as ‘between Hadera and Gedera’ [roughly 540 square miles which encompass Greater Tel Aviv]. Aside from the environmental and planning problems this causes, it sharpens the dangers we face from non-conventional weapons.”
“The more we encourage citizens to leave the low-lying and crowded Gush Dan area and move to Samaria, the more the State of Israel will thus reduce the non-conventional threat it faces – especially the threat emanating from Iran’s nuclear plant in Bushehr.”
“It’s true: We should enact the Yitzhar-for-Bushehr plan – but not in the sense in which some anti-Israel forces would have it [Israel’s withdrawal from Yitzhar and the other Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria in exchange for Western pressure to close down Bushehr], but the opposite. The government of Israel must initiate a large-scale construction campaign in the Samarian region and start building new communities in its wide expanses, which are ready and waiting to absorb millions of Jewish residents.”Unfortunately, the Netanyahu government does not appear to be open to building new Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, but it is apparently open to expanding some of the existing towns. As a result, when and if there is an imminent threat of an Iranian nuclear attack, you may see an awful lot of Jews living in tents on raw Samarian mountainsides. Perhaps then they will appreciate the foolhardiness of attempting to give away our strategic assets.
The picture at the top of this post is the view from Homesh, a Jewish town from which all the Jews were expelled in 2005. The view is looking towards Israel's coast, and if you click on the picture and enlarge it (or go here where I first published it and explained it at length), you will see Israel's Hadera power plant in the background. It would be crazy to give that ridge to the 'Palestinians' to use for target practice, wouldn't it?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:39 PM
4 Comments:
I don't understand the value of moving to areas with Arab neighbors. The Muslims have not shown any reluctance to expose their own population to war zones in the past, why would they start now?
If leftist Jews could be moved there - few of them would still root for a two-state solution if it meant losing their new homes. Human nature has a way of putting self-interest ahead of idealism. Come to think of it, its what Israel should have done in the first place all along.
so should i be rooting for iranian nukes now...? ah, the complexities of the mideast
Momteachs,
The Muslims aren't as likely to target their own populations.
And from Israel's perspective, the population density of Samaria is far less than that of Metropolitan Tel Aviv, in which the people are sitting ducks.
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