US Ambassador:
Trump Will Not Evict Jews From Judea and Samaria
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz October 18, 2019 , 2:22 pm
However, Hashem
refrained from destroying Yehuda, for the sake of His servant David, in
accordance with His promise to maintain a lamp for his descendants for all time
(Kings 2 8:19)
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during an
American Independence Day celebration. (Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The U.S. administration will not call for the evacuation
of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria under the much-anticipated Mideast
peace plan, according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday.
In an interview with Israel National News, Friedman said
“having seen the experience of the evacuation of Gaza, I don’t believe that
there is a realistic plan that can be implemented that would require anyone—Jew
or Arab—to be forced to leave their home.”
Friedman referred to the Gaza Disengagement Plan of 2005,
in which more than 8,000 Jews were forcibly evicted from their homes by the
administration of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a bid to create a Palestinian
state in Gaza. The highly contentious plan caused major political divisions and
a firestorm of debate in Israel, and was subsequently denounced across the
political spectrum as a failure that resulted in nearly perpetual violence and
wars along the Israel-Gaza border.
“We think that’s just a recipe for disaster,” said
Friedman. “It almost caused a civil war on much less aggressive circumstances
in Gaza, compared to Judea and Samaria, and so we are not of the view that any
forced evacuations are achievable.”
Approximately 350,000 Jews live in cities and towns
throughout Judea and Samaria, not including the hundreds of thousands more
living in northern and eastern parts of Jerusalem that the Palestinian
Authority demands as part of a new state.
P.A. official Saeb Erekat condemned the interview as
showing “ideological commonalities between the Trump team and the Israeli
settlers’ movement. Both agree that Israeli settlements, recognized as war
crimes under international law that deny the Palestinian right to
self-determination, should remain in occupied Palestine forever.”
According to Friedman, the Trump peace plan will be
released as soon as new Israeli administration is formed.
He added that while Trump and Isrseli Prime Minister
Netanyahu have an “extraordinary friendship … our support for the State of
Israel is for the State of Israel, as much as we admire and respect the prime
minister, and we will maintain that relationship with Israel irrespective of
who the Israeli people choose as their leader.”
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