The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel accused former Disengagement Authority head Yonatan Bassi Sunday of “losing all sense of shame” following his initial testimony before a state commission on the condition of Jews evicted from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria in 2005. During his testimony, Bassi blamed the evictees for their plight.
“Bassi was a senior associate to the greatest failure in Israel in the last generation, to a moral crime against basic human rights and to an unpardonable sin,” the Forum stated. “His blaming the evacuees for the situation that he and his masters led them [into] is the height of cynicism,” it added.
“The Legal Forum struggled, fought and begged to stop the evacuation until a communal solution was found for the evacuess, but Bassi and the Administration ran a false campaign that stated that there is ‘a solution for every resident’ – something that was proven to be a lie,” the Forum went on to state. “Had Mr.Bassi cooperated with the Legal Forum’s suggestions, he would not now be sitting as the first person to be questioned by the Committee of Inquiry.”