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Despite repeal of Disengagement Law, Netanyahu bans evicted Israelis from returning to their homes By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
March 22, 2023 – The prime minister clarified – after harsh rebuke from the U.S. – that despite the repeal of the Disengagement Law, the destroyed Jewish communities will not be rebuilt.
As his right-wing coalition partners celebrated a successful repeal of the 2005 disengagement law that saw Israelis forcibly evacuated from communities in northern Samaria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified that settlers would not be permitted to return to their former homes.
“The decision by the Knesset to nullify parts of the Disengagement has brought an end to the law which discriminates against Jews living in parts of northern Samaria, a part of our historic homeland,” Netanyahu said in a media statement on Wednesday.
But, Netanyahu noted, the change to the law does not mean that settlers will be allowed to reside in those evacuated communities or reestablish them.
“With that, the government has no intention of establishing new communities in these areas,” the premier clarified.
Biden Interferes Over Judicial Plan in Call with Israeli PM By Geller Report Staff
March 21, 2023 – Biden won’t confront China’s effort to gain global hegemony, or Iran’s march to nuclear weapons. Instead, President Biden decides to lecture PM Netanyahu on Israel’s judicial changes. Which by the way is none of Biden’s damn business. Biden is an absolute joke.
Israel’s former deputy foreign minister named as World Economic Forum’s young leader By Ruth Marks Eglash
‘Every opportunity is an opportunity to change minds and change perceptions about Israel,’ MK Idan Roll, who is now in the opposition, told Jewish Insider
March 22, 2023 – Israeli Knesset Member Idan Roll has been named as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2023. A former deputy foreign minister who served in the previous government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, Roll said he would use the appointment to the prestigious program to push forward projects, especially in the tech world, that will enhance Israel’s diplomacy and create new diplomatic opportunities for the Jewish state.
“I have all sorts of plans for the program,” Roll, 38, told Jewish Insider in an interview. “I have my orientation later this month. It takes time to get to know the system, but like many other programs it is up to the individual to make something meaningful out of this opportunity.”
“Just by having access to so many leading people in prominent fields, I don’t see how you can’t make something meaningful out of this opportunity,” he added. “Looking at the list of other participants and of alumni there is a lot of potential and I will get to reach out to people from countries that I would not usually get to meet.”
Roll is the only Israeli out of the 100 young political leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers and activists selected for the program. Announced earlier this month, the Young Global Leaders Class of 2023 will serve for a three-year term and be given access to a range of executive education courses, learning journeys and opportunities to collaborate with their peers, helping them to make an even more significant impact on society.
[Ed.: Some Israelis aspire to join the Amelekites…]
Netanyahu clarifies: Israel not reestablishing towns in northern Samaria
Amid sharp criticism from Biden administration, Netanyahu says nixing of Disengagement Law doesn’t mean Israel rebuilding evacuated towns.
Mar 22, 2023, 11:58 AM (GMT+2) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government is not planning to rebuilding towns demolished during the 2005 Disengagement, despite the Knesset’s passage late Monday night of legislation nullifying parts of the Disengagement Law.
In a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office Wednesday morning, Netanyahu expressed support for the law, passed by the Knesset 31 to 18, which nixes the bars Israelis from the parts of northern Samaria which were evacuated in 2005.
Along with all 21 of the Israeli towns in the Gaza Strip, the Ariel Sharon government also evacuated four towns in northern Samaria – Ganim, Kadim, Sa-Nur, and Homesh.
The Disengagement Law barred Israelis from returning to the sites of the demolished towns.
“The decision by the Knesset to nullify parts of the Disengagement has brought an end to the law which discriminates against Jews living in parts of northern Samaria, a part of our historic homeland,” Netanyahu said Wednesday.
“It is not a coincidence that senior members of the Opposition supported this bill the whole time.”
Netanyahu emphasized, however, that the law’s passage does not signal that Israel is poised to rebuild the four demolished towns, as some on the Right have called for.
“With that, the government has no plans to move forward with new towns in these areas.”
The law’s passage Monday night drew sharp criticism from the Biden administration, with the U.S. State Department summoning Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, for a meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Tuesday.
“The Deputy Secretary conveyed US concern regarding legislation passed by the Israeli Knesset rescinding important aspects of the 2005 Disengagement Law, including the prohibition on establishing settlements in the northern West Bank,” Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said.
“They also discussed the importance of all parties refraining from actions or rhetoric that could further inflame tensions leading into the Ramadan, Passover, and Easter holidays,” he added, in what could be viewed as a reference to the controversial remarks by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said at an event in Paris on Sunday that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.”
Israel’s second war of independence Malcolm Dash
Clearly, Israel is in the throes of an orchestrated, well-funded coup d’état, devoid of ideology and close to bloodshed in the street. Op-ed
Mar 22, 2023, 11:14 AM (GMT+2) – Israel is fighting for its independence from the tyranny of affluent and powerful elites. Independence from the legal establishment’s absolutism, independence from the propaganda of the mainstream media propaganda, freedom from the progressive ideology of academia, and from the social engineering carried out by the IDF.
For thirty-plus years, Israel has faced a gradual campaign to change the identity of the Jewish state to a secular state for all its citizens. It’s an attempt to separate Israel from its rich diasporic history, Jewish traditions, customs, and above all, the Jewish religion. The bon ton that leads the crusade is in the minority; be that as it may, they wield hegemonic control over national bodies, effectively dominating key decision-making agencies.
They dominate the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office, which rank among the most significant of these institutions. Together with the activist left-wing agenda and authority they arrogated to themselves, they have created a supra-legislative hierarchy that can override the legislation of the elected legislative assembly.
The dispute is not over the need for long-overdue judicial reform. It concerns the elite’s efforts to reassert its authority. By doing so, they have unleashed anti-democratic forces that completely reject and invalidate a legal government that was democratically elected by the majority of the people.
Clearly, Israel is in the throes of an orchestrated, well-funded coup d’état. A coup, devoid of ideology and with few actual supporters, is edging ever closer to civil disobedience, chaos, and the risk of violence leading to bloodshed in the streets.
