Why is a settler council reaching across the Green Line?
http://972mag.com/why-is-a-settler-council-reaching-across-the-green-line/111700/
Located inside Israel proper, a tent encampment belonging to residents of a yet-to-be-built Jewish town — meant to replace an existing Bedouin village — is being managed by a West Bank settler council.
The state’s behavior in the saga of Umm el-Hiran, a small Bedouin village inside Israel’s sovereign borders, is in many ways reminiscent of the way it builds settlements on the other side of the Green Line, in the occupied West Bank.
Expulsion orders, reneging on past promises, ignoring local leaders, ignoring the needs of the local population, and bringing in a Jewish population to replace it. In this case, the name of the Jewish settlement meant to replace Umm el-Hiran is “Hiran.”
It should come as no surprise then, that despite the fact that the town is on the Israeli side of the border, the governing regional council that won a bid to manage the camp in which Hiran’s (future) residents are living — until they can move into their new homes on the ruins of Umm el-Hiran — is none other than the Hebron Hills Regional Council. In a strange act of reverse annexation, a town inside Israel proper has been annexed to a regional council in the occupied West Bank.
Annexation...ethnic cleansing...Apartheid.
Let the wailing begin.
