Arbitrary and Contrary: Eviction of Jews from Their Dwellings

Arbitrary

(of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority.

Contrary

perversely inclined to disagree or to do the opposite of what is expected or desired

Israeli Government Evicts More Jews from Their Dwellings

Netiv Ha'avot

'A blow to the soul'

Head of Gush Etzion Council to Arutz Sheva: 

'The world recognized our right to this land

Shlomo Ne'eman, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, spoke about the pain and about hope. "This is a sad day for the people of Israel, a day that is supposed to be happy - 70 years since the 29th of November [when the UN voted to partition British Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state]. Even though the nations of the world have recognized our right to this land, the government of Israel is still hesitant about our right.”[…] "The time has come for the government to declare that there is control here, and that we are here in the Land of Israel, in Gush Etzion, in Netiv Ha’avot, we are here now and always, and these homes must be normalized,”

"I do not know if Netanyahu can stop the evacuation of Netiv Ha’avot, but this is not his mission. His mission is to control this land, to declare sovereignty and to legislate sovereignty. If his goal is to save another house here and there, then more evacuations will follow. There are lots of ‘solutions’ for the settlers, but we don’t need them.”

"Judea and Samaria is an inseparable part of the State of Israel, and there is no other place in the country that such an event would have happened. Houses that have stood for 15 years on state land are being destroyed all because of some obscure strip over which nobody claims ownership. It's because we broke the law? No, it's because there is no law here and no one is breaking the law, but the Supreme Court is creating precedents without law.



“So the one acting against the law who is causing the collapse of the rule of law is the Supreme court, and the ones protecting the law are these kids trying to protect the carpentry shop.

"When I immigrated to Israel at the age of these children, I did not expect to see such sights, but when I see it, it is a great excitement to see our youth, youth with sacrifice for the task at hand," Ne'eman said. “They sleep here at night, even when it is cold and damp, boys and girls in separate quarters in holiness and purity, protecting this place and fighting for it.” ArutzSheva


The Supreme Court in December 2016 ordered the destruction of Elazar's Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood, after an unclaimed strip of land was found to run through it.

In September, the State informed the Supreme Court that it supported the petition of the residents of six houses slated for demolition to have only the small sections of their homes which were built on privately owned land demolished. However, in October, the Supreme Court rejected the residents' request and ordered the homes destroyed completely. ArutzSheva