From Ynet: Avigdor Lieberman lashes out at illegal construction… by Arabs.
Lieberman said there are currently 100,000 illegal structures in Israel. "This is not an improvisation," he said. "This is a well-aimed operation – in its geographical spread, its funding, and its legal defense system – to conquer national land."
Without saying the word ‘Arab’ but appearing to hint at this sector, Lieberman added that the illegal construction was a challenge to Zionism.
"This challenge goes well beyond illegal construction: This is a blatant attempt to construct an enclave which, based on precedents created in the international arena, will enable the division and dismantlement of the state of Israel," he said.
At one time 5 million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement: a restricted area in portions of what is now Lithuania, Russia, and Poland. And there were sharp restrictions on land ownership and their use of land. Thus they lived in shtetls, small towns. When Herzl met the Russian minister Plehve at the turn of the century, they spoke of the ways that Jewish economic ways threatened the Russians.
It seems like now that we have power, Jews in Israel need to recapitulate a lot of the phases of Jewish history, the persecution chapters, but with the Palestinians playing the victim role.
