Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon told Arutz-7 this morning, "We expect Prime Minister Sharon to make good on his promise [for Jewish territorial contiguity]. Our struggle will continue and a Jewish neighborhood will definitely be established - for there is no other choice." He said the residents are not insisting on the specific piece of land that was evacuated today, which is said to be privately-owned by Arabs: "There are enough state-owned lands in the area on which to build a Jewish neighborhood."
Regarding the timing of Sharon's order to destroy the neighborhood, Arnon attributed it to three reasons:
* Heavy American pressure
* A desire to divert attention from the Likud primaries scandal
* The wish to gain votes from 'centrists' by showing them that, "I, too, can uproot Jewish neighborhoods."
This was the second "defeat" suffered in recent days in the campaign to make Hevron and Kiryat Arba more Jewish and more secure. The Supreme Court yesterday extended by two weeks an order preventing the demolition of mostly-abandoned Arab-owned structures along the road, as well as stopping other works to build a promenade along which worshipers could safely walk to the Machpelah Cave.
Women in Green publicized a statement against the uprooting of "the Giborei Hevron encampment that was established as a Zionist response to a murderous attack." The organization said that this time, "the naive amongst us cannot blame [the Labor Party's] Ben-Eliezer [who authorized the previous uprooting at Gilad Farm]. It is clearly Prime Minister Sharon who is the initiator and who is to blame, spitting in the face of the terror victims and rewarding those who murder Jews."
Regarding the timing of Sharon's order to destroy the neighborhood, Arnon attributed it to three reasons:
* Heavy American pressure
* A desire to divert attention from the Likud primaries scandal
* The wish to gain votes from 'centrists' by showing them that, "I, too, can uproot Jewish neighborhoods."
This was the second "defeat" suffered in recent days in the campaign to make Hevron and Kiryat Arba more Jewish and more secure. The Supreme Court yesterday extended by two weeks an order preventing the demolition of mostly-abandoned Arab-owned structures along the road, as well as stopping other works to build a promenade along which worshipers could safely walk to the Machpelah Cave.
Women in Green publicized a statement against the uprooting of "the Giborei Hevron encampment that was established as a Zionist response to a murderous attack." The organization said that this time, "the naive amongst us cannot blame [the Labor Party's] Ben-Eliezer [who authorized the previous uprooting at Gilad Farm]. It is clearly Prime Minister Sharon who is the initiator and who is to blame, spitting in the face of the terror victims and rewarding those who murder Jews."