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Council: Homesh March 'The Answer to Rice'
Reported: 23:59 PM - May/03/08
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(IsraelNN.com) The Shomron Regional Council is preparing for the arrival of tens of thousands expected to flood the site of the destroyed town of Homesh on Thursday, Yom Ha'atzmaut. The event has been approved by the IDF and marchers will be allowed to enter the Homesh area – as opposed to last year's march to the site, which the army sent troops to break up, personally ordered by then Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Despite that, about 30,000 protesters reached the site last year.
The IDF still maintains a strong presence in Homesh and Sa-nur, also destroyed during the 2005 disengagement. As a result, some 20 Knesset members have joined the “Homesh lobby” and are working to allow Jews to return to legally live at the site. Gershon Mesika, head of the Shomron Regional Council, said that “even several ministers in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government have admitted that leaving Homesh was a mistake,” because of its strategic importance. Yossi Dagan, a member of the Homesh resettlement committee, said that the event was “the proper answer to Condoleeza Rice. We will go up to Homesh and tell her and her friends in the Israeli government that they will not only not succeed in chasing us out of outposts and towns, but that we will return to the places we have already been removed from.”
The IDF still maintains a strong presence in Homesh and Sa-nur, also destroyed during the 2005 disengagement. As a result, some 20 Knesset members have joined the “Homesh lobby” and are working to allow Jews to return to legally live at the site. Gershon Mesika, head of the Shomron Regional Council, said that “even several ministers in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government have admitted that leaving Homesh was a mistake,” because of its strategic importance. Yossi Dagan, a member of the Homesh resettlement committee, said that the event was “the proper answer to Condoleeza Rice. We will go up to Homesh and tell her and her friends in the Israeli government that they will not only not succeed in chasing us out of outposts and towns, but that we will return to the places we have already been removed from.”
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