Mattot Arim This Wednesday: Crucial Zionist Litmus Test For Govt

Wednesday: crucial Zionist litmus test for Netanyahu and his ministers

On Wednesday, finally, the outpost recognition legislation intended to save
the Ulpana neighborhood in Beth-El, the Migron community, the Givat Assaf
community and many other young and thriving communities in Judea and
Samaria, will come to vote in Knesset! (Wednesday, 23 May, mid-day)

Right-wing legislators have publicly voiced strong support for outpost
recognition:
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=269105

History of the outposts as summarized by the Jerusalem Post: "Run and grab
hilltops": Ariel Sharon said this in 1999 ... to encourage the construction
of outposts.... In fact the bulk of the outposts were intended to be the
start of well planned and well thought out communities created under the
auspices of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza
Strip as well as the regional councils. Many of them are satellites of
existing settlements or in some cases were the start of what settlers hoped
would be new neighborhoods in existing settlements. In some cases the
outposts were constructed as a protective and security measure at dangerous
junctions in the West Bank where terror attacks had occurred. In other cases
they were placed at sites of attacks in memory of the victims. Many of them
were built with government support to the combined tune of more than NIS 70
million." http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=146752

Legal aspects: Peace Now and other European-funded pro-Palestinian groups
insist that the Israeli outposts beyond the 1967 cease fire lines "must" be
deemed "illegal", now and always. However, Israel's top lawyer, Yakov
Weinroth, has come out in favor of the outposts:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4158129,00.html.

Also, the legislation was initiated , not by any fly-by-night back-bench
legislator, but by the chairman of the Netanyahu Government coalition, Zeev
Elkin http://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPageCurrent_eng.asp?PG=13
jointly with the head of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice
Committee, Adv. David Rotem,
http://www.knesset.gov.il/committees/eng/committee_eng.asp?c_id=6, a
well-known expert on the legal status of land in Judea and Samaria, and
others.

Your role, as an individual, from now till Wednesday:
Please do all you can to make the legislation succeed. Input from
individuals in Israel and from friends of Israel abroad, is extremely
important.

1. Example email: DEAR MINISTER, THIS WED, 23 MAY, PLS VOTE YES TO ISRAELI
OUTPOSTS (YOUNG COMMUNITIES) PAST '67 LINES!

(then add some personal words of your own if you wish -- or just sign your
full name and add your full address including street, city and country!)

Email addresses of ministers (and mk's)-- see a whole paragraph of relevant
email addresses above, in the Hebrew section. Copy the whole paragraph into
the "to" section of your email!

If you get no response, re-send your email daily or twice daily until this
Wednesday (inclusive).

If you DO get a response, please forward to: mattot.arim@gmail.com.

2. If possible, please take some time: make an individual call or send an
individual fax to EACH OF the following ministers whose attendance and
positive votes are CRUCIAL:

Yuli Edelstein. Gilad Erdan. Moshe (Bogy) Yaalon. Yisrael Katz. Limor
Livnat. Gidon Saar. Yosi Peled. Dr. Yuval Steinitz. Silvan Shalom.

Their telephone numbers and fax numbers appear here:
http://mattotarim1.blogspot.com/2010/08/tel-fax-nos-rightwing-ministers_05.html

For example, you can say or write: DEAR MINISTER,THIS WED, 23 MAY, PLS VOTE
YES TO ISRAELI OUTPOSTS (YOUNG COMMUNITIES) PAST '67 LINES!

ISRAELIS WILL NOT HAVE THE HEART TO SUPPORT LIKUD FROM NOW ON, IF LIKUD
FAILS TO SUPPORT ITS OWN ISRAELI COMMUNITIES IN SUCH A CRUCIAL AND
HISTORICAL AREA! PLEASE VOTE YES!

The children of the outposts thank you for your hard telephone-fax work from
now till Wednesday. Here they are:
http://mattotarim1.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_14.html. And we at Mattot
Arim thank you as well!

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