Israelis will officially be allowed to return to the Homesh settlement in the West Bank.
Extremist settlers act as if the land is more sacred than human life. In so doing they jeopardize the lives of their women and children as well as of all Israelis, wherever in Israel they live.
Yesh Din said that new buildings had been erected at Homesh last Sunday night, against the opinions of the Judea and Samaria legal advisor.
In the eyes of the State Department, granting a group of Jews permission to study Torah in a yeshiva in Samaria raises the same level of concern as the murder of Nigerian children.
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Gallant can point out that the new yeshiva and some other moves really are small and symbolic. They will not really change the status quo of the West Bank issue.
A spokesperson reiterated that the US sees the return to Homesh as inconsistent with previous commitments made to US governments.
The new Homesh Yeshiva building was built in the land that was included in the disengagement repealment bill.
"We are concerned by today’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount... and the accompanying inflammatory rhetoric," read the official statement.
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