Bennett slams idea of leaving 'settlers' in 'Palestinian state'
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) quickly shot down the idea in a Facebook post.
“The idea that Jewish communities will live under Palestinian sovereignty, as expressed by the Prime Minister's Office, is a very grave matter, and it reflects a panicked loss of values,” said Bennett. "2,000 years of longing for the Land of Israel did not transpire so that we could live under Abu Mazen's rule”
The idea “pulls the ground out from beneath our settlement of Tel Aviv” as well, he stated.
Bennett called on Netanyahu to immediately deny that the idea reflects his policy.He wants Netanyahu to deny the truth? Maybe Bennett needs to wake up to reality. Saying that he's going to leave the revenants behind in a 'Palestinian state' has two huge advantages for Netanyahu and for his Leftist allies (like Yair Lapid whom Bennett helped bring into the government). First, he avoids the heart-rending scenes of the IDF forcibly expelling Jews from their homes. And second, he avoids having to pay 'compensation' when the revenants flee for their lives into a rump state of Israel.
It is Netanyahu - and not Bennett - who has learned the lessons of the Gaza expulsion. And in fact, Ehud Olmert would have done the same thing in 2006 had the Second Lebanon War not quashed his plans. It's a brilliant strategy. Despicably evil, but brilliant.
Others knew better than Bennett how to respond to Netanyahu.
Two hawkish Likud MKs also warned against Netanyahu's idea. Deputy Minister of Transportation, MK Tzipi Hotovely, said that “a diplomatic plan that relegates the Jewish settlement enterprise to Palestinian sovereignty will not receive political backing in Likud. The commitment not to uproot settlements is not enough. It is important that Israeli sovereignty be maintained.”
Deputy Defense Minister MK Danny Danon rejected the plan and said: “Whoever thinks that Jews will live under Palestinian control in Judea and Samaria is invited to try and visit Gaza today and understand the meaning of 'tolerance' in the Middle East.”
Danon added: “In areas where the military will not be present and bear responsibility – no Jew will enjoy security. We will not abandon the settlers behind enemy lines.”
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel warned against implementing the idea and said that it will lead to a bloodbath.
“One of the basic civil rights is the right to life,” stated Forum Director Nahi Eyal. “No one has a moral and legal right to hand over responsibility for the security of Israel's citizens to Palestinian policemen and murderers whom the government released from jail in recent months.”Well, yes. But you'd have to go back to the Shamir government (1990-92) to find the last government in this country in which moral and legal values were predominant.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Danny Danon, Gaza expulsion, Judea and Samaria, Middle East peace process, Naftali Bennett, revenants, Tzipi Hotovely
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:36 PM
2 Comments:
"But you'd have to go back to the Shamir government (1990-92) to find the last government in this country in which moral and legal values were predominant."
Yeah, and he was kicked out by the right in 1992. Labor replaced him and gave us the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Calling Bibi "evil" for what he's doing right now is similarly wrongheaded.
The framework (if it happens and if it results in a state for the Arabs) allows the IDF to go anywhere in the new state.
They would protect the small communities which means that there would be no reason to move them out of their homes. Nothing would change for them.
We should be happy.
Is it possible that Netanyahu is just trying to call the world's attention to two crucial facts:
1) If a peace agreement would truly result in peace, the settlements could co-exist with the PA (translation: according to the European view, settlements are not an obstacle to a peace agreement or a 'Palestinian' 'State')
2) The judenrein policy of Abbas.
Netanyahu has been using language like this (see his US congress speech in 2011 - "some settlements will end up beyond our borders") since forever. I always assumed he was trying to appease his right-wing electorate, but it seems I was wrong about that. can you really imagine Netanyahu willingly creating a situation with a thousand new caravilas?
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