Hanan Porat, educator, politician and Gush Emunim founder dies
Hanan Porat, former Knesset member and one of the founders of Gush Emunim and the Tehiya party passed away at his Kfar Etzion home on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.
Porat aged 67, served as a Knesset member from 1981 to 1999 and was considered one of the key members of the settlement movement.
Porat studied in a yeshiva and was ordained as a rabbi and served in the army's paratrooper unit and participated in the battle of Jerusalem in the Six Days War, and also fought in the Yom Kippur War where he was seriously injured in the Suez Canal.
He opposed the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip and wrote a special prayer saying those who lend a hand to uprooting settlements hurt not only the settlers themselves but the Jewish legacy.
Porat will be laid to rest on Wednesday morning in the village of Kfar Etzion.
The Jewish Connection to the Land | Settlements Part 2
This week, we’re continuing our in-depth look at the Israeli settlements. To get a better understanding of the subject, we’re jumping back to biblical times to unpack the Jewish connection to Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
As with everything Jewish, it all starts with Abraham. This was a man who spent much of his time on the move - much of it in what we now call the West Bank.
And it wasn’t just Abraham. His descendants (and later, generations of Jewish people) also spent a lot of time in Judea and Samaria, creating a long-lasting connection with places such as Hebron, Shechem (Nablus), Beit El, Gilgal and Gibeah.
A connection that couldn’t be broken through thousands of years of exile.
Fast forward to the 20th century where events in two separate communities - the ancient city of Hebron and the modern agricultural village of Kfar Etzion - took on a powerful symbolism for Jewish resettlement in the West Bank.
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Palestinians enter Netzarim, synagogue burning
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Thousands of triumphant Palestinians poured into the abandoned Jewish settlement of Netzarim early on Monday, setting an empty synagogue on fire and shooting in the air, as convoys of Israeli troops rolled out of the Gaza Strip in the final phase of Israel's pullout from the territory after 38
years of occupation.
Palestinian police stood by as gunmen raised flags of militant groups and crowds smashed what was left in the ruins or set fire to the debris.
There were similar scenes throughout Gaza.
The synagogue buildings were a focus of Palestinian anger after 38 years of Israeli occupation, primarily because they were among the only buildings left standing.
Israel had demolished nearly all buildings in its 21 former Gaza settlements, but the Israeli cabinet decided at the last minute to leave 19 synagogues intact, a decision criticised by the Palestinians and the United States.
The Palestinians refused to protect them, saying they wanted nothing that symbolised the occupation to remain.
The withdrawal marks the first time the Palestinians will have control over a defined territory.
They hope to build their state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - areas that Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Six Day War.
Gaza is seen as a testing ground for Palestinian aspirations of statehood, but many Palestinians fear that after the Gaza pullout, Israel will not hand over additional territory.
Despite the celebrations, there are deep-seated worries amongst Palestinians that Israel will maintain a stranglehold over the coastal strip as will it continue to control Gaza's airspace, territorial waters and border passages.
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ISRAEL: REACTION TO ISRAELI'S PLAN TO DIVIDE CONTROL OF WEST BANK
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Palestinian leaders attacked on Thursday a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dividing control of the West Bank.
Yasser Arafat said the Israeli plan, unveiled Wednesday, flies in the face of the Oslo peace agreement.
At the Aram Checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank - security is tight.
This checkpoint and the Alon Road is one section of the border between Israeli and Palestinian territory.
Currently the Palestinians have control over 40 per cent of the West Bank - Israel occupied this land during the 1967 Six Day War.
As formally agreed between Yasser Arafat and then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993 - the two sides would negotiate over the so called final status of the region by 1999.
Palestinians want total control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to create a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.
On Wednesday - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to bypass the final status negotiations - presenting a plan to his cabinet on how the region should be divided.
The media has dubbed it the The Alon Plus Plan - comparing it with a proposal given to the Israeli government in 1968 by then Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alon.
Under Netanyahu's blueprint - Israel would retain West Bank land surrounding Jerusalem, including the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim east of the city.
It would also annex the Jordan Valley and large settlement blocs, including Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem.
Israel would also seek to retain control over major West Bank roads and over water sources.
If implemented, the plan would leave the Palestinians with disconnected patches of land that would make it very difficult to establish a state.
But spokesman for Netanyahu, David Bar Illan, says the plan represents a major concession from Netanyahu's right wing Likud party.
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This Alon Plus plan represents a tremendous adjustment of expectations on the part of the Likud party - the dominant party in the ruling coalition today. Because for the first time in its history, it admits that there will be another entity between Jordan and the sea - something that it was not willing to admit before.
SUPER CAPTION: David Bar Illan, Netanyahu's spokesman
But for Palestinians - the plan is totally unacceptable.
They view Israel's control of parts of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as illegal - part of the 1967 occupation that is thwarting their dream of a Palestinian State.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
For me as a Palestinian it is very difficult to understand this because we are occupied territory - all of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and it must be Palestine there. And as a Palestinian we refute this thing - all of it.
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop
Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority, says the plan goes against the 1993 Oslo agreement.
Under that agreement - control of disputed territories must be negotiated - not stipulated by any one side.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
This is completely against the peace process and against the agreements.
SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, President of Palestinian Authority
Netanyahu's plan comes more than two months after talks between the two sides broke down when Israel began constructing Jewish settlements in disputed East Jerusalem.
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HaLamed Heh: The 35 Soldiers Who Never Returned Home
On this week’s History of Israel Explained, we’re heading back to the months leading up to Israel’s War of Independence and recapping the incredible - and tragic - story of the Convoy of 35, known in Hebrew as HaLamed Heh.
Sent to protect and relieve the besieged inhabitants of Gush Etzion (the Etzion Bloc), 35 brave young men set out on a daring mission in January 1948.
None of them made it back.
The loss of the 35 sent shockwaves through the Jewish community of Palestine. But far from causing them to give up, it strengthened their resolve and today the tale of these brave soldiers has become one of the foundation stones of Israel’s history.
To find out more about the 35, the siege of Gush Etzion and the events that followed, watch this week’s powerful video.
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Unlikely Friends in the Promised Land, Part III
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Eliaz, Mohammed, and several other settlers and Palestinians meet in a settlement living room. They discover that their family and cultural memories of what happened in their region during the 1948 War are very different.
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WEST BANK: TEKOA: JEWISH SETTLERS REMOVED (V)
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Israeli soldiers evacuated dozens of Jewish settlers from a West Bank hill near the settlement of Tekoa on Thursday.
The new outpost was created on Wednesday night, when a group of fifty young settlers tried to make the former Israeli army base their new home.
0002 Fifty young people came to settle in Tekoa, a hill in the West Bank on Wednesday. It used to be an Israeli army base, but it was evacuated two months ago. The young settlers decided that in order to keep the territory, they had to set up home there.
0019 But Tekoa is now supposed to be handed over to the Palestinian authorities....something that settler Shimon Riklin doesn't accept.
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It is not a protest, it is a saying. We are saying something
to the people in Israel.
Q. What are you saying?
A. Stop the give up on your land because this is the beginning of
the distortion of the nation of Israel.
SUPER CAPTION: Shimon Riklin, Israeli Settler
0037 It was the job of the Israeli army to dismantle this makeshift settlement.
0040 ...and evacuate the settlers. It was necessary to use force.
0049 They removed the young people for the first time at dawn on Thursday morning
....But the settlers returned and had to be forcibly removed again at noon.
0102 Meanwhile, in the West Bank town of Hebron, dozens of Palestinians and a few Israeli peace activists demonstrated at a disputed piece of land that Jewish settlers have claimed.
0112 Israeli soldiers tried to prevent the protesters, but after shoving and pushing the they reached the land and held their prayers.
0120 The Israeli security forces again found themselves in the middle of rival bids for disputed territory.
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What are the Israeli Settlements? | Settlements Part 1
There are few words more divisive in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than “settlements.” Some people believe Israelis have every right to live in the West Bank / Judea and Samaria. Others believe Israel’s presence there is a key reason for the ongoing conflict.
And that’s not to mention the countless views of everyone in the middle of these two extremes.
Because the Israeli settlements are such a major issue, we’ve created a series of five videos to look at this controversial subject from every angle.
In the coming weeks, we will get stuck into this thorny topic. To start with, we’re going back to basics and looking at what the settlements are and how they came into being.
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Israelis: What is the alternative to the two state solution?
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Another pullout
The ongoing discussion within the Israeli cabinet to compensate settler's who voluntarily decided to evacuate their homes, has left the residents of both the West Bank and Gaza strip enraged. The plan emerged after Israel reportedly offered the Palestinians about 93% of the West Bank which means that dozens of isolated settlements will have to be evacuated.
Majority settlers doubt the viability of the proposal and have refused to accept the same given the pitiable condition in which the evacuees of the 2005 Gaza pullout have been forced to live. Most of them are still facing resettlement problems in terms of housing and employment. Many believe that the issue stretches beyond compensation and has much to do with the values and ideology which the current government lacks when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians.
The government fails to understand that it is displacing its own citizens to the detriment of its own national interest. How can the proposed pullout buy peace when a similar withdrawal conducted three years back failed to stop attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory?
Jewish Settlers: Are the settlements against the Torah?
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Meet a Settler
Laura Ben David talks to us from Neve Daniel, a Jewish community in the Gush Etzion area, which most of the world, including the United States, sees as Illegal.
WEST BANK: TEKOA: JEWISH SETTLERS REMOVED
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Israeli soldiers have removed dozens of Jewish settlers from a West Bank hill near the settlement of Tekoa.
The new outpost was created on Wednesday night when a group of 50 young settlers camped at what was once an Israeli army base.
The base was evacuated two months ago, and the area is to be handed to the Palestinian authorities.
The fifty or so Jewish settlers arrived at the site on Wednesday night.
But only a few hours after claiming the land for Israel - Israeli soldiers moved them off.
The settlers, who say they are from the new generation of the settlers council, then came back to the former army base later in the morning only to be removed again.
The settlers' chairman said the new generation will continue building in Israel.
He said the action in Tekoa is against Israel's plans to hand out the land to the Palestinians.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
It is not a protest, it is a saying. We are saying something to the people in Israel.
Q. What are you saying?
A. Stop to give up on your land because this is the beginning of the destruction of the nation of Israel.
SUPER CAPTION: Shimon Riklin, chairman of the new generation of the settlers council
Meanwhile, in Hebron, a few dozen Palestinian and Israeli peace activities held a sit-in at a disputed area of land.
Israeli soldiers tried to prevent the protesters from reaching the land, but after shoving and pushing the protesters reached the land and held prayers.
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Hamas proud of terror attacks, vows to continue
Hamas TV broadcast this video clip showing footage of fighters carrying out attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers with the following text:
38 stabbing operation (i.e., terror attacks)
[A masked Palestinian stabbing is shown stabbing a Jewish ultra-orthodox man]
487 shooting attacks
[A masked Palestinian man is shown shooting Israeli soldiers]
24 operations of capturing soldiers
[A kidnapped Israeli soldier is shown being filmed beside the masked kidnapper]
87 Martyrdom-seeking operations (i.e., suicide bombings)
[A masked man fits a suicide vest on a man whose face is hidden]
13,981 shells and rockets
[A masked man is shown shooting rockets]
It will never stop
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Nov. 19, 2013]
Israeli Settlers | Settlements Part 3
When you hear the words “Israeli settler,” you probably think religious, radical, living in the middle of nowhere. But the truth is there are all kinds of settlers and all kinds of settlements.
There are so many reasons people live in the settlements - and they’re not always what you think.
Some settlers live in the West Bank for ideological reasons; others live there because it’s cheap. Some settlers are religious; others are secular. Some settlers made a conscious decision to live in Judea and Samaria; others grew up there and want to be close to family.
This week we’re breaking through the stereotypes, shutting down the misconceptions and learning a thing or two about the settlers and the settler movement.
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Israeli court rules to demolish Khan al-Ahmar village: 6/9/2018
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Israeli court rules to demolish Khan al-Ahmar village
Home to 180 Palestinians, village's demolition expected soon by Israeli army as rights groups denounce move.
Palestinians and rights groups condemned a decision by an Israeli court giving the green light for the military to demolish a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, forcibly evicting its 180 residents.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority said the decision to raze Khan al-Ahmar village consolidates Israel's colonial project of building an arc of settlements that effectively cut off occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.
This illegal decision uncovers the colonial DNA of Israel's institutions that work to confiscate Palestinian lands ... effectively alienating it from the West Bank and killing any hopes for a future contiguous Palestinian state, it said.
Khan al-Ahmar is situated a few kilometres from Jerusalem between two major illegal Israeli settlements, Maale Adumim and Kfar Adumim, which the Israeli government wants to expand. The removal of the Bedouin village enables the Israeli government to cut the West Bank in two.
The High Court rejected petitions against the demolition and said a temporary injunction that had put a hold on the move would lapse in a week.
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman praised the justices' decision on Twitter calling it brave.
Khan al-Ahmar will be evacuated. I congratulate the Supreme Court judges for their brave decision. Nobody [is] above law. Nobody can prevent us from consolidating our sovereignty, Lieberman said.
The mood in the village, where residents attended a protest after the ruling, was despondent.
We have gone through all the procedures in court, now we can do nothing more, said Tawfiq Jabareen, a lawyer for the community. If anything can prevent the demolition, it is the political process.
'Courts of the occupiers'
The villagers are members of the Bedouin Jahalin tribe which was expelled from their lands in the Naqab (Negev) desert by the Israeli military in the 1950s. They were displaced twice more before they settled in Khan al-Ahmar, long before the illegal settlements around it existed.
The small community of 40 families lives in tents and shacks on what is classified by the 1993 Oslo Accords as Area C, which accounts for 60 percent of the West Bank and is under total Israeli administrative and security control.
The court's decision was largely based on the premise that the village was built without Israeli permission, which Palestinians say is impossible to obtain because of the expansion of illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlements there.
United Nations figures show Israeli authorities have approved just 1.5 percent of all permit requests by Palestinians between 2010 and 2014.
Soldiers Were Tricked
Soldiers were told that a terrorist was loose - and fought with citizens trying to enter the area and save the Federman farm from destruction. Though relations in some areas remain good between YESHA Jews and the army.
Attempted stabbing attack near Einav
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