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Forced to leave his home with a pregnant wife and three little children, Alex Traiman talks about the wheelings and dealings and all that is being evicted encompassed. Here we listen to a convincing voice of the Jewish settlers that will in the future will be recognized and immortalized as the patriots and pioneers of Israel no less than the patriots of the American Revolution and the American pioneers who in wagon trains headed west to populate America from the Appalachians to California.
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The reports on the international media ranged from pro-Israeli Patriots in the settlements of Shomron and Judea, Israel National News, who speak affirmatively of the Israeli settlements and their Zionist goals to carry for the mandate to inhabit and rebuild G-d’s Holy Land.
Then we have the Israeli media against the settler’s movement to inhabit and populate the land headed by Haaretz News, who uses inflammatory words such as “illegal West Bank Outposts, “disputed West Bank hilltop”, and “illegally built on Palestinian land” in order to sway public opinion against the true pioneers and patriots of Israel.
It was six weeks earlier that the left wing Israeli News, Haaretz, published this report by reporter, Mordechai I. Twersky, in the article titled, “Israeli Residents of Illegal West Bank outpost Brace for Evacuation”:
Haaretz News – “Two native English-speaking families whose homes on a disputed West Bank hilltop have been slated for demolition in less than two months by Israel's Supreme Court are expressing a range of emotions - from uncertainty, resignation and cautious optimism, to disappointment in a government and legal system they say has let them down.
"This isn't a hilltop," says Alex Traiman, a 32-year-old filmmaker from New York City, who politely but firmly corrects a reporter visiting their home in the Givat Ha'ulpana community of Beit El. "This is a neighborhood."
Givat Ha'ulpana, adjacent to Ramallah, is just a stone's throw from where it is believed the biblical patriarch Jacob dreamed of a ladder with ascending and descending angels. But its pastoral scene belies the tension that is brewing beneath the green gardens and rugged mountain terrain.
Traveling up the idyllic mountain, with the 360-degree panoramic view of a smattering of Palestinian villages and Jewish communities, there's no tangible sign that five two-story homes encased with facades of Jerusalem stone are at the heart of a bitter legal controversy threatening to destabilize the Likud government. As a result, the Supreme Court, which has ruled the structures were illegally built on Palestinian land, is now on a collision course with legislators in the Knesset and senior government ministers, who now plan to circumvent that ruling.
For Traiman; his Australian neighbors, the Kitays; and two other English-speaking families among some 30 families with 140 children whose homes are now slated for demolition, the last several months have been hectic. The international media has descended on this mountain. So have ministers and legislators, assuring residents that the scheduled May 1 demolition date mandated by the court would not stand. On Tuesday, the justices rejected and roundly criticized the government's request to delay the demolition, setting a new deadline of July 1.
Hours later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged a midnight coalition deal with opposition leader Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party. By morning, Givat Ha'ulpana's residents and the rest of the country awoke to the new reality of a coalition government that some residents worry will be more likely to carry out the demolition.
"I am disappointed," says Baruch Kitay, 26, a native of Perth, Australia, who moved to Beit El eight years ago and first learned about the slated demolition while performing his reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces. "The same country that I fight for is going to knock down my house which I have made for myself and my family in the Land of Israel."
An internet technology entrepreneur and rabbinical student, Kitay concedes things "are not looking good." A father of two small children, he and his Sydney-born wife, Michal, were planning to serve abroad as shlichim, or emissaries. Now, they are wondering how they will explain their ordeal to Jewish communities abroad.
It's the same hesitancy, he notes, that has prevented him from granting an interview to the Australian press. "I'm embarrassed," he says.
"I still want to believe there will not be a demolition," says Michal Kitay, rocking her four-month-old son in her arms. "What I can't comprehend is that the government is prepared to demolish these homes - the government that encouraged us to live here. Even if it is determined that the homes were built illegally, why shouldn't there be compensation?"
"This is our suburbia," says Tzippy Traiman, a native of Romania who grew up in New York City before immigrating with her husband and daughter in 2004. "We came here for the schools and the quality of life."
Now expecting her fourth child, she and her husband are thinking about the effects of the demolition on their small children. The Traimans and other families are mulling contingencies in the event that they are forcibly evacuated from their homes. For now, they haven't been notified by the government, nor have they been asked to evacuate.
"We haven't had the dignity of receiving a formal notice on our door," says Alex Traiman. "Even when you park illegally in Tel Aviv, you are at least given a notice by the police."
Traiman also believes that "rules can be overturned." He cites the nullified prison sentences for those who murdered his neighbors' parents and brother in a terrorist attack in 2010. The prisoners were released by Israel as part of the deal to release kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
"This is just a small blip in Jewish history," Tzippy Traiman says. "If we look at the big picture, Israel is moving forward, and we are part of that. We hope things will turn out well, but this is not one of Israel's finest moments."
Jewish Radio Talk Host, Tamar Yohan
Israel National Radio Host Tamar Yonah
Tamar Yonah is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her father survived the Nazi brutalities and after liberation, made his way to the shores of the British Palestine Mandate, where again fighting for his survival, fought in Israel's war of Independence. This made a great impression on her life and she too has been fighting for Israel by serving in the Israeli army & air force, and afterwards by becoming an activist for Israel and the Jewish nation. She has been a vocal beacon of light since beginning a prolific career in radio. She hosts “The Tamar Yonah Show - Israel's most popular English language radio talk show”. She also writes a biting and sometimes humorous, award winning blog that discusses current events, religion and politics.
Credit to Tamar Yohan – “Audio: An Intimate Chat with a Jewish Patriot Evicted from Bethel (Beit El)” – Right Wing Zionist Israel National Radio, July 3, 2012
Credit to Mordechai I. Twersky – “Israeli Residents of Illegal West Bank outpost Brace for Evacuation” – Left Wing Haaretz News, May 11, 2012
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