Photo: Tovah Lazaroff/ Jerusalem Post
Ahead of a High Court order to evacuate the illegal outpost of Migon by Tuesday, Israeli police carried out the evacuation in the West Bank today. Migron was built on land stolen from Palestinian owners.
The price tag youth who were in the colony are only moving a few miles away to another hilltop.
Last month 17 of the families petitioned the High Court to remain, claiming they had bought the land.
The court rejected that claim, but said that the structure on lot 10 could remain until the investigation into the purchase claim was completed.
In the days leading up to the evacuation, Migron residents held multiple meetings seeking consensus on how the community should respond to the order.
In the end, they agreed that each family should decide for themselves how they wanted to leave.
Binyamin Regional Council deputy head Motti Yogevn said that some 12 to 15 families had vacated quietly overnight.
He added that they had gone briefly to the nearby Ofra settlement and from there they planned to move to a new modular site prepared for them, two kilometers away from Migron by the Psagot winery.
During the night several dozen teen activists headed to the outpost. Some placed stones and tires across the entryway to the outpost, to bar the military vehicles. But by dawn the road was cleared.
As the sun rose, Migron residents recited the morning service in the synagogue.
Many of them had painted graffiti on the side of their homes, with slogans that said, “Migron we shall return” and “the eternal people does not fear the long road.”
One anti-Likud graffiti stated: “Begin = Sinai [evacuation], Sharon = Gush Katif [Gaza], Bibi = Migron. Only the Likud can.”
Is that the new Jesus in a read shirt with his 4 disciples?
Oh god hold my pants up…..
If they fall down i may have to visit Maria Magdalena when i am horny….
I love the JPost term “evacuation”, as if these people were somehow victims in danger, instead of being the aggressors.
Less than a week ago Netanyahu pledged to annex the Gush Etzion string of 22 settlements and its WB population of 70,000 to Jerusalem and not a peep out of anybody about it but here today, we are getting worked up about Israel chasing out only 300 of its 600,000 land-thieving squatters and it’s giving Mndwss blasphemous sexual fantasies. Maybe it has something to do with August having had 2 full moons.
I wonder if the Zionist authorities set up another large staged production of soap opera like proportions to have photos and video taken of the “crying” settlers and the “crying” soldiers in this new mock battle (that would leave any Palestinian daring to resist even one small illegal Zionist occupation authority order either dead, in jail, or in a hospital) to try to then say “look we are making ‘painful’ compromises” (i.e. “withdrawing” one illegal West Bank outpost to just MOVE these racist/fanatic illegal Jewish settlers, with complete government subsidies much of it likely being US tax dollars given to Israel, to just another illegal West Bank outpost i.e. another illegal settlement colony in what all international law recognizes as the occupied Palestinian West Bank). Noam Chomsky in his 2006 work “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy” does a good job discussing this chicanery in past similar events. Specifically the removal of the illegal Zionist settlements in Sinai, Egypt decades ago, that instead of just going with international law was portrayed in a large soap opera like fashion as a “national trauma” for the Zionists. And then more recently and importantly the supposed “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005 that was really the completion of an outdoor prison Gaza blockaded and raped of most of its’ natural resources by a 1% illegal Jewish settler population that lived in opulence and which human rights activist and journalist Amira Hass noted made life hell for the other 99% of the population of Gaza i.e. the Palestinians in Gaza many of whom are people ethnically cleansed in Al-Nakba of 1948 from what is now southern Israel. And this Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza also saw the majority of the illegal Jewish settlers subsidized to simply move to expanded illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and in the equally illegally Zionist occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Chomsky for example clearly notes the large increase in illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights following Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” from and consolidation of the Gaza concentration camp.
Chomsky also quotes the work of academic Baruch Kimmerling who wrote very importantly on this topic.
Those kids should be working and paying taxes instead of playing cowboys and Palestinians.