There’s been a lot of talk lately about extending Israeli
sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, talk long winded, but short on
practical policy ideas. In honor of Jerusalem Day, celebrating the
miraculous victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, and to consolidate the
integration of Judea and Samaria into the State of Israel, I offer
below, 15 comprohensive ascending policy steps to extending Israeli
sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
PM Netanyahu
recently reiterated his pledge to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea
and Samaria. In his speech to the Knesset, about the incoming
government coalition he said, “It is time to apply Israeli law to
the territories in Judea and Samaria. This step will not push off
peace, but will bring it closer. Hundreds of thousands of settlers
will not be moved from their homes.”
Its important to keep stressing ad infinitum, that applying Israeli
sovereignty to Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria, opens
the way for the rest of Judea and Samaria to be given away to the
“Palestinians,” according to the Trump Plan. So, Netanyahu plans
to give away a lot of the Arab residents, with parts of Eretz Yisrael
(the Land of Israel) too.
But, Netanyahu hasn’t spoken about what the status of the Arabs
inside those Israeli territories will be.
Furious over the talk, about extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish
towns in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman
Mahmoud Abbas declared recently, “The Palestine Liberation
Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of
all the agreements and understandings with the American and Israeli
governments and of all the obligations based on these understandings
and agreements, including the security ones.”
MK Bezalel Smotrich
(Yamina) responded to the Palestinian Authority’s announcement that
it would end security coordination with Israel, by calling on Defense
Minister Benny Gantz, “...to order the IDF to take full security
responsibility in all areas of Judea and Samaria and disarm the
Palestinian Authority in order to protect the lives of Israeli
citizens.” Again, good start, but still a piecemeal approach.
There have been
several other plans circulating for the last few years in Israel,
about applying sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, or parts of it. But
none of them go into much detail about what to do with the Arab
population. How to help them emigrate or prepare to live in peace
with Israel and Jews.
In the light of
Abbas’ declaration, I offer
below, a
comprohensive 15 ascending steps
policy proscription to
extending Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria:
1. Nullify the Oslo Accords and pass a bill in the Knesset to apply
Israeli law over Judea and Samaria, for the establishment of Jewish
Political Sovereignty to areas A, B, and C, i.e. Annexation.
2. Establish total military and security control over all of Judea
and Samaria, including the Arab cities, towns and villages, disarm
and de-militarize the Arab population.
3. Develop a Jewish Re-settlement Program to encourage Israelis and
Jews from the diaspora, to re-populate the Biblical Heartland of
Israel, rebuilding cities, towns, and villages, that were wiped out
during nearly 2,000 years of foreign occupation.
4. Forcibly dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
5. Arrest and try the PA leadership and Palestinazi terrorists and
activists (or eliminate them if arrest is impossible), for their
encouragement and support of terrorism, i.e. crimes against the
Jewish people, like what was done with Eichmann, and as should have
been done to Arafat.
6. Introduce throughout the Arab sector in Judea and Samaria (the
former PA), a comprehensive De-Palestinazification Program similar to
what America introduced into Germany after their defeat in World War
II.
7. Establish an Emigration Authority and the Monetary Encouragement
Act to help encourage and fund the migration of Arabs from Judea and
Samaria who choose to leave to another country.
8. For those Arabs who chose to stay, and take the citizenship path,
a New Citizenship Council will be established. The council will have
the authority to deny citizenship to those Arabs who break the law,
which of course will included any form of resistance to Israeli
Sovereignty. Deportation without compensation will be the lightest
penalty; more grievous violations will receive the death penalty.
9. With Sovereignty comes responsibility, so Israel will establish a
network of Israeli Police Stations throughout the Arab sector in
Judea and Samaria, just as in the Jewish sector. The purpose, to keep
law and order, and provide security to those Arabs who choose to live
peacefully under Israeli rule, i.e. protect them from the bullying
and terror of “Palestinazi Activists” who haven’t yet been
arrested, tried and convicted.
10. With the Dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, Israel as sole
Sovereign in the Area, will take control of all public services and
municipal administration. Monies shall be invested into improved
infrastructure, e.g. roads, electricity, water, the sewer system,
etc.
11. By taking control over the educational system in the Arab sector,
Israel can introduce a new pro-Israel, peaceful coexistence
curricula, which includes it’s De-Palestinazification Program.
Financial encouragement of Israeli Arab educators to work in the Arab
sector of Judea and Samaria, should help introduce pro-Israel
attitudes and Hebrew into the population.
12. A Healthcare improvement initiative will be started, including
the financial encouragement of existing Israeli Arab medical
personnel, to work in the Arab sector of Judea and Samaria. More
contact between Israeli Arab citizens and the Arab citizens of Judea
and Samaria, will help with their integration into Israel, long-term.
13. The new Arab citizens of Judea and Samaria, will be entitled to
full civil rights and equality before the law with Jews, including
civil and criminal adjudication in the Israeli court system, just as
Israeli Arabs. They also will be responsible to pay all taxes, just
like other Israelis. They also will be required to do National
Service (but not army service), as will Israeli Arabs.
14. Starting in 2050 (thirty years from the time these policies are
introduced), and upon approval of the New Citizenship Council in
coordination with the security services; municipal self-rule will
begin to be progressively introduced into the Arab sector of Judea
and Samaria, contingent upon their cooperation with Israeli
authorities and peaceful, proper and lawful behavior up until then.
Cities, towns and villages that qualify, will then be given the
opportunity to hold democratic elections and elect their own
municipal administrations under the auspices of the of the New
Citizenship Council. Those towns would now be allowed to collect
their own tax money and fund and administer, their own municipal
budgets.
15. But, as a former enemy population, they are not entitled to
national self-determination within the State of Israel, the
Nation-State of the Jewish People. Therefore, the Arabs of Judea and
Samaria, are not entitled to vote in Knesset elections. Full
citizenship, like Israeli Arabs, which includes the right to vote in
national elections, will be offered to them in three generations or
seventy years (from the time these policies are introduced),
whichever is longer, contingent upon their full cooperation with
Israeli authorities, good and lawful behavior, and with the approval
of the security services and the New Citizenship Council.
I have presented here, just
one possible scenario for
today’s politicians, policies that still need to be fleshed out with even more detail, on what to do with the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, once Israeli sovereignty has been established there.
As
the issue is put on the top of the political agenda, all
scenarios being presented to the public, need to be well thought out,
explained in detail and
fully discussed, to achieve maximum
public support
and total success.
This
generation’s major challenge is, how the Jewish people will achieve
full integration
of Judea and Samaria (the
Biblical Heartland), into the modern State of Israel.
Ariel
Natan Pasko, an independent analyst and consultant, has a Master's
Degree specializing in International Relations, Political Economy &
Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous
news/views and think-tank websites and in newspapers. His
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