Netanyahu's empty promises to Ulpana residents cannot be fulfilled
You will recall that I reported on Saturday night that Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to expel the Jewish residents of the Ulpana neighborhood from their homes, but promised to either (and apparently it is either and not both - an issue I raised in Saturday night's post) move the homes elsewhere in Beit El or build ten buildings for each one destroyed.I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised to see Haaretz gleefully reporting on Sunday morning (based on 'professional defense sources') that neither solution is possible. Aaron Lerner posts an English language summary of an article that, for now, only appears in the Hebrew edition (link in Hebrew). This is from Dr. Lerner's summary.
...The first phase of the solution that Netanyahu considered for the five buildings including cutting them off and transferring them a few hundredWho wants to be the first to call Netanyahu a liar?
meters away.
... But experts in the matter said it was not possible, or alternatively will cost huge sums of money, and it is doubtful that it can done in the short time until the first of July.
In the case of the buildings moved in Tel Aviv, five houses were moved a distance of thirty meters. That planning process took a year and cost 24 million. Also, the houses were mounted on tracks and pushed down the tracks to the new location.
In the case of the Ulpana homes, the buildings were not built on the plateau, but instead to fit the terrain of the mountainous area. It is thus doubtful if any of the homes can be moved this way.
Netanyahu promises 10 homes for every home to be transferred...subject to approval of the Attorney General. But there are perhaps 20 dunam of state land remaining upon which they can build of which 11 dunam are already planned for a temporary transit camp.
Labels: Beit El, Binyamin Netanyahu, outposts, Supreme Court
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:00 PM
1 Comments:
Israel is a country where cruelty, stupidity and short-sightedness rule and common sense, mercy and decency are absent.
The obvious and apparent solution is for the government to pay the Arab landowners compensation and legalize the Ulpana neighborhood. This is the way its done in normal countries all over the world.
But Israel is anything but a normal country. What could go wrong indeed
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