Gantz: Eviatar's return will take a long time, Homesh will be evacuated • The right: "We will shake the country""

April 21, 2022   

Fury on the right following Defense Minister Benny Gantz's remarks during a meeting with MK Idit Silman, who is withdrawing from the coalition, which was scheduled yesterday (Wednesday) with Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv. The bathing season has opened: all the information and rules that bathers need This was a meeting scheduled at Silman's request even before her dramatic move that shocked the coalition. According to a report by Yaron Avraham on Channel 12, the Defense Minister informed her that the approval of the Avitar outpost would take a long time. According to the right-wingers, this is contrary to the outline agreed upon with the residents of the settlement - that the settlement would be populated in parallel with the bureaucratic process. Gantz explained to Silman that he was only implementing the decision of former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, according to which the lands would be declared state lands - but that 45 days would be given for appeals and that only at the end of the process - which could take more than 45 days - would immigration to the site be allowed. For some unknown reason, Yamina members understood otherwise, and therefore this news from Gantz is likely to disappoint them. Gantz's second piece of news was that Homesh would be evacuated soon. According to Gantz, all partners in the government - including Yamina and Gideon Sa'ar - are aware of the matter and he will not compromise on it. He explained his position by saying that he is upholding the law, so the question is not a question of if - but of when. At the same time, Gantz also gave a "sweet tooth" and made it clear that the Supreme Planning Council will probably convene in the first week of May and approve new construction for Israelis and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. Following the announcement of the planned evacuation, the Likud is increasing the pressure on MK Nir Orbach from his right, in the hope that he will withdraw from the coalition and bring about the overthrow of the Bennett government. "Nir Orbach - the excuses are over," said the Likud. "The latest publications prove that Bennett is only concerned with his political survival, and therefore he is lecturing Ra'am and Yair Golan at the expense of the settlement. "It turns out that Bennett intends to evacuate Homesh and not build Eviatar. "It's time for you to take action and save the settlement and Israel from this weak and dangerous government that only harms the settlement and the Jewish values ​​that we all share." The Religious Zionist Party responded angrily, saying that Gantz's words are a reward for terrorism: "Surrender pursues surrender and lies pursue lies. Gantz's announcement of the evacuation of Homesh as a reward for terrorism after the murder of Yehuda Dimentman, in complete contradiction to the commitments of Shaked and Auerbach, and of a delay that could last years in the establishment of Eviatar, in contradiction to the agreement that the government signed, are a new record of submission to terrorism." The party added: "The government of terror is surrendering to terror on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem, in Eviatar, Gaza, Hadera, Homash, Beersheba and Bnei Brak, and is giving a tailwind to terror. In the face of the red lines that the Islamic movement knows how to draw and subdue its partners in the government, the wing that previously defined itself as right-wing has no red line and no leverage over Gantz and the left. Religious Zionism will do everything to soon replace this evil government, with God's help, with a Zionist, Jewish and national government." The head of the Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, reacted sharply to the publication and threatened the government with a struggle that would "shock the country." He said, "The violation of the Eviatar Agreement by Naftali Bennett and Benny Gantz is a red line. If the Eviatar Agreement is violated, we will embark on a public struggle that will shock the country. The settlement in Samaria will not be a run-down escapade of any cynical political internal struggle between the components of this government. I wholeheartedly suggest to the politicians in this government not to bring the public who love the Land of Israel to the breaking point.".