Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit today warned that a bill which aims to retroactively legalize the illegal West Bank settler outpost of Amona was blatantly unconstitutional, all but closing the door on Israel’s far-right government continuing to spurn court orders to demolish it.
Amona was illegally built on privately owned Palestinian land in 1995, and the Israeli High Court ruled it illegal in 2006. After years of spurning court orders to do something about it, the High Court finally gave the government under December of 2016 to demolish the site and return it to its legal owners.
The far-right government has tried to come up with some sort of settlement for the evacuation, offering to relocate the settlers to the nearby settlement of Ofra. They have refused and reiterated their refusal today, insisting they believe the government will eventually realize the voters put them in power to legalize such construction.
Mandelblit’s warning that the legalization effort would never survive in court came after he Justice Ministry had already punted on debating the bill until next weekend, though whether it will see the light to day remains uncertain.
The Amona settlers argue that the government subsidized their construction of the illegal outpost in the first place, and that they took that as a promise that the settlement, like so many others, would be retroactively legalized.
Good man.
It’s all just Kabuki. Good cop/bad cop. Good judge/bad judge.
From the beginning the Zionists planned to take all of Palestine. That project is moving right along. They will continue the taking by force, and then they will make permanent the “facts on the ground” — however long it takes and by whatever tortured legalistic kabuki is employed to “legalize” it. One thing for sure: you’re not going to see any removal by force of any “settlement” that’s been there for 22 years.
The fact that anyone is still discussing this phony baloney, indicates that the eternal Zionist “string along” is still working, still being “bought” by the gullible, indifferent, or intimidated Goyim, and enabled by their subverted governments.