Category: The Land and the People
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"You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria…" Jeremiah 31:5
The representative body of the majority of settlers in Israel is "Moetzet Yesha" — The Settlers’ Council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza — Yehudah, Shomron veAza — מועצת ישע. Yesha, as they are commonly called, made a deal with Prime Minister Barak in October 1999 regarding the future of 42 controversial outposts and settlements. Barak agreed that 30 of these could remain in place, but 12 would be dismantled by the end of that month. He discovered it wasn’t as simple a task as, let’s say, uprooting cabbages, and by the end of October only two were evacuated. Yesha believed that by sacrificing a few relatively "unimportant" outposts they could save most of the 170,000 strong settler enterprises in Samaria (the West Bank). They perhaps did not expect the intensity of the reaction from the now second generation settlers in Samaria/Shomron.
In an interview with The Jerusalem Report, 22 November, 1999, Daniella Weiss, a 54-year-old grandmother and a pioneer and leader in the Settler Movement, argued that once even a small outpost is surrendered, a precedent is created for the evacuation of even larger established settlements. Weiss explained how evacuation ran counter to the central principle of the settlement effort: "We are an ideological movement. Our mission is to settle Greater Israel. Compromise, over even the slightest settlement activity, is not an option."
Religious, Bible believing, Idealistic Jews
The strong, ideological backbone of the movement is evident as Weiss described how in 1993 she helped establish an agricultural yeshiva called Shvut Rachel (Rachel’s Return), near Shilo—the already flourishing and establishment settlement town. Together with the group of young, bright, second generation settlers, t...
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