Settler group planning to reestablish Gaza bloc

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The Homesh First Movement is expected to announce Tuesday that settlement groups are planning to return to settlements in Gush Katif evacuated during the August 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip. The core settlement groups hope to return the minute it is acceptable from a security standpoint, explained Boaz Haetzni, one of the leaders of the movement.

Haetzni told Haaretz that as soon as the Israel Defense Forces reenters the Gaza Strip, "and in our estimation the 'big operation' is only a matter of time, we will follow them in. We will not ask for permission from anyone. The groups will be ready, and this evening we will start an organized sign-up for them. These core groups will do exactly what the group that reestablished Kfar Etzion did after 1967. They will return to the lands where they existed in the past, and will rebuild them," said Haetzni.

Dozens of families who left Netzer Hazani in the Gush Katif as well as dozens more families have already expressed their interest in signing up for the new settlement groups, said Aviel Tokar, the coordinator of the planned group for reestablishing Netzer Hazani. "I was born in Netzer Hazani, the first settlement in Gush Katif, which with the help of God will also be the first settlement to return there. In our home, there is a picture of me as a four-year-old boy presenting Rabin with tomatoes from our hothouse. I believe my children will also present the prime minister with tomatoes from the hothouses of the rebuilt Netzer Hazani," said Tokar. He repeated that the only problem preventing them from returning is security, but the minute the IDF enters the area, even temporarily, his group will simply go and establish the "facts on the ground."

In a gathering planned for Tuesday, the settler leaders will read out a declaration stating their intention to return to both Gaza and the northern West Bank as soon as the security situation allows. The statement also declares the areas belong to the Jewish people, as an unnegotiable divine promise, and are integral to the Land of Israel. "We view the return of Jewish life to those regions as a national mission and divine commandment," declares the statement.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008454.html

[azurnoir]

1. Guess "folks" is planning ahead

not just settlers to be either- Barak is too

Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak criticized his political rivals on Monday, equating them with hosts of reality television shows, and told his constituents that a military operation in the Gaza Strip was still very much on the agenda.

Speaking at a Labor Party event in Jerusalem on Monday evening, Barak said "anyone who misses the military operations in Gaza mustn't worry, they will come."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008449.html

[Scurrilous]

2. What's there not to miss...

...death, carnage, destruction.

Ah, the good ol' days...

[Sezu]

3. Hamas can easily avoid all this. Think they will?

Not on your life.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. Good luck with that! nt