Is Basketball Your Game?

Here's a 6 minute clip from a Channel Two report by Zion Nanus on Eli's basketball team, League B.

It's in Hebrew but great scenes for those who don't understand the holy tongue.

Go, Elitzur Eli, go!

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Infiltration Reported At Eli

Rotter in Hebrew.

And from Twitter:-

@Hadassah_Levy

Just got notification that there may have been infiltration btwn two hills, residents of those neighborhoods asked to say indoors.

Keep tuned.


UPDATE


Mistaken identity.


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There's a Good Story in Here

"Here" is this Haaretz smear piece on my next-door community, Eli, where the neighborhood in question houses some of my good friends, and the widows of two IDF heroes, Ronni Klein and Eli Peretz Hayad:

Israel expropriates Palestinian land in order to legalize West Bank settlement

Move is Netanyahu government's first confiscation of land in the territories.

For the first time in three years, the state has confiscated uncultivated land in the West Bank. The land will be used to legalize a nearby settlement outpost. Last week, acting on orders from the government, the Civil Administration declared 189 dunams of land belonging to the Palestinian village of Karyut to be state land, so as to retroactively legalize houses and a road in the Hayovel neighborhood of the settlement of Eli. This would seem to violate Israel's long-standing commitment to the United States not to expropriate Palestinian lands for settlement expansion.

An Ottoman land law dating from 1858 allows uncultivated land to be declared state land. This law, which is still in force in the West Bank, is what was used to carry out the expropriation.  According to last Sunday's decree, the lands in question belong to the village of Karyut. Hayovel was built on these lands in 1998 as a temporary outpost, and later permanent houses and an access road were built. A 2005 report on the outposts by attorney Talia Sasson concluded that Hayovel was built on private Palestinian land.

After the Peace Now and Yesh Din organizations petitioned the High Court of Justice against the construction in 2005 and 2009, the Civil Administration reviewed the land's legal status. Since Jordan, which ruled the West Bank from 1948-67, had never registered them in its land registry, the Civil Administration reclassified them as under review. This meant that any place that was still cultivated in the late 1990s would remain private land, but the rest could be declared state land...

The story is, in short, that

(a) Talia Sasson, a far-left Meretz activist, used her political prejudices in her official state position and wrongly decided what she decided;

(b) you'll note that the Arabs of the area had no legal standing even after more than 150 years passed under four different regimes: Ottoman, Britihs, Jordan and Israel and couldn't prove their ownership;

(c) the land in question was never purchased and the villages simply extended communal claims rather than private ones as agricultural land.

All this would never be tolerated in civilized orderly locations.

Also, as the League of Nations Mandate declared:

ART. 5.
The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.

ART. 6.
The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.

So, the whole idea that we Jews have no rights, that the local residents have more rights, that somehow we are 'stealing', that the Arabs are better than we Jews is all a fiction.

The courts are open for counter-claims but the presumption that there is private land when perhaps not and certainly never registered seems to lead the theme rather than highlight the Jewish primacy.

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Anyone Know of Corrinne?

One woman against a tractor:-

Settlers prevent Qaryuot farmers from plowing their lands

Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Eli constructed on the territories of the Palestinian village of Qaryuot prevented farmers from plowing their lands.  According to local sources, a number of Palestinian farmers started yesterday plowing their lands in the east part of the village before the arrival of Israeli settlers. Qaryuot farmers were enforced to leave the area in order not to be hurt by settlers fire.

Sources added that a settler called Corinne attempted to attack a farmer who was driving a tractor, but the driver escaped without being injured.

That must be a first.


P.S.  Seeking details, if any.

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I'm back (May 9)

There is a guy named Koren who lives on the outskirts of Eli and acts out of his own initiative. What actually happened is that the Eli community permitted Arab farmers to plow their fields, and everything went pretty well. Koren claimed they stole something of his, so he confronted them and there was an altercation and some slight damage to the wheels of a tractor.
Eli then requested police intervention and brought the farmers soda to calm the winds. In short, the person who misbehaved was not an "Eli settler", but rather a private person who acted out of his own will. The residents of Eli where actually the ones who took care of the situation and made sure the police was notified.

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Life Goes On

BBC's Tim Franks, back from a vacation, has a report on my neighboring community to the north, a mile away, Eli.



In New support for West Bank outpost, he claims "an unauthorised settlement in the West Bank, illegal even under Israeli law, appears to be benefiting from state funding".

The crime?

A road is being built from the established settlement of Eli, near [near? not really] the Palestinian city of Nablus, leading east to the illegal outpost at Hayovel...under Israeli law, those newer, smaller settlements - known as outposts - which have not received authorisation from the government are deemed, by the Israeli government, to be illegal.

The details:

Drive up the twisting, landscaped roads of Eli, a mid-sized settlement in the heart of the West Bank, and you come across a scene of intense construction activity...outside observers are not welcome. The BBC was asked, twice, to leave the settlement, when we drew too close to the site of the road.

...Abdel Nasser...shows on a map, the new road to the outpost carves straight through land which he says is owned by his village, Qaryut...an official from Israel's Civil Administration said that the matter was now in the hands of "inspectors".

...All this has been happening under a government which is publically committed to the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state, in the West Bank.

The future Israeli government, which is likely to come into office next week, will be led by a man, Binyamin Netanyahu, who sees no such need...the momentum on the ground appears to be swinging the other way.

Well, maybe authorisation is just around the corner, maybe Abdel Nasser doesn't own the land and maybe the courts will agree.