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Last update - 12:21 28/07/2009
IDF stands aside as settlers build new outpost
By Chaim Levinson and Haaretz Service
Tags: IDF, Ramat Migron, Tzur Ya 

Some 200 people, mostly children, arrived near the West Bank town of Tul Karm on Monday to establish a new illegal outpost. The Israel Defense Forces did not stop them or interfere.

The outpost, Tzur Ya, is one of 11 set up Monday and the day before by the militant Youth for Israel movement.

The movement was formed after the disengagement from Gaza in 2005, due to the youngsters' disappointment in what they viewed as an overly compromising stance taken by the settlers' leadership. The movement's members will inhabit and maintain the new outposts in the territories.
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Some 40 teenage girls spent a three-day outing in the illegal West Bank outpost of Ramat Migron last week, as "spiritual preparation" for the "relentless battle on the right to settle the Land of Israel," according to the organizers.

"We've had girls here from Tel Aviv and Haifa, aged 13-18," says Shlomit Amitai, 16, a resident of Ramat Migron and a member of Youth for Israel, which hosted the girls.

"They built the place they slept in themselves and cultivated the land in preparation for living in an outpost. I'm sure every girl who stayed here will come to spend the Sabbath, and then after a few Sabbaths they'll join a group and set up their own outpost," she says.

Ramat Migron was set up so that if the settlers' leadership council agrees to evacuate the nearby illegal Migron outpost, Jewish settlers would remain on the mountain.

Several single youngsters and one couple inhabit the Ramat Migron outpost, which consists of a girls hut, a boys hut and a kitchen in between. The huts, which have been dismantled more than once by security forces, have no electric power or running water.

At the end of their sojourn at Ramat Migron, the girls were hoping to meet Daniella Weiss, the spiritual leader of the West Bank's new outposts. Weiss bailed at the last minute, but the girls, feasting on cake and sweet drinks on the floor, summed up their stay with satisfaction and promised to spend the Sabbath there soon. Some are thinking of joining a group planning to set up another outpost.

"I don't know if I personally would live in an outpost, but it contributes to the entire people of Israel that the land is being settled," says a 16-year-old girl from Tel Aviv. "For me it was fun to be in the open space."

In their final group discussion the girls heard a proverb from The Zohar - a book widely seen as the most important work on Jewish mysticism - likening the Land of Israel to a mother, who weeps when her children leave her and go into exile.

"What we do is like bandaging a mother's wounds," Amitai says, explaining the proverb's meaning. "This empty earth is a wound that must be bandaged with a settlement."

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      1.   It is good to see that both sides breed their children to be nuts 02:18  |  Canadian 28/07/09
      2.   Once again Israel/IDF... 02:36  |  Maureen Ann 28/07/09
      3.   these people 02:36  |  dave 28/07/09
      4.   Good That The IDF Stepped Aside. 02:36  |  Heather Czerniak 28/07/09
      5.   Here`s comes a new religious war 03:18  |  Marc Leb 28/07/09
      6.   And you are proud of this Israel? 03:51  |  kiwi girl 28/07/09
      7.   This...as Israel is looking ever closer 03:58  |  kiwi girl 28/07/09
      8.   #4 - When we were young, we wanted to build a tree house... 04:19  |  kai 28/07/09
      9.   No real surprise 04:27  |  Raphael 28/07/09
      10.   No hope for peace of any kind... 04:34  |  jb 28/07/09
      11.   Youth for a Binational State in action 04:50  |  newageblues 28/07/09
      12.   on the contrary, Maureen Ann 05:03  |  newageblues 28/07/09
      13.   The Problem 05:16  |  Justaguy 28/07/09
      14.   Enough already! 05:18  |  Robert 28/07/09
      15.   The settlers using their own children as a human shield 07:30  |  Kris Lazar 28/07/09
      16.   IDF stands aside , new outposts built. GOOD! 07:52  |  DT 28/07/09
      17.   Having weirdo extremists will always exist on both sides but... 07:52  |  Roger 28/07/09
      18.   Spending your summer vacation 08:13  |  Joe 28/07/09
      19.   youth in action 08:24  |  rm 28/07/09
      20.   You`re right Heather 09:11  |  John of Jordan 28/07/09
      21.   Proof that all settlements are destabilizing to peace 09:49  |  Ivar 28/07/09
      22.   To Heather #4 `Good that the IDF stepped aside` 10:06  |  Colin Wright 28/07/09
      23.   not helpful 10:28  |  rm 28/07/09
      24.   So, the Arabs say they need nukes... 10:30  |  Toke 28/07/09
      25.   Wheer is MR whataboutery---psm---no comments 10:59  |  evelyn 28/07/09
      26.   The most moral army in the world 11:01  |  sh 28/07/09
      27.   #4 you are absolutely correct Heather 11:02  |  lily 28/07/09
      28.   To Ivar, Maureen Ann and other bashers with no lives 11:05  |  Ki`emli 28/07/09
      29.   Enough portraying the Pals in and out of Israel as poor people 11:05  |  lily 28/07/09
      30.   Gambling in Casablanca 11:09  |  Mitch Cohen 28/07/09
      31.   Step aside???? 11:24  |  Mark 28/07/09
      32.   THE END 11:25  |  AMOS 28/07/09
      33.   # 25 Ki`emli 12:54  |  maoriboy 28/07/09
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