Jews for Judea stand tall

The Jews of Judea will not go down without a fight. God willing, they will succeed in repulsing the Israeli leftwing concessionists.

This from ArutzSheva:

JERUSALEM – A group led by residents of Judea and Samaria officially presented a plan yesterday calling for Jews in the area to secede from Israel and create their own autonomous Jewish entity, in part to head off the possibility of further unilateral Israeli withdrawals from the territory.

"Jews under any and all circumstances must remain in Judea and Samaria and take things into our own hands and not surrender," declared northern Samaria resident Yekutel Ben Yaacov, leader of the Judean Initiative.

The new movement seeks to create a sovereign Jewish authority that would govern itself independently according to Jewish law and provide its own security.

Judea and Samaria are referred to by some as the West Bank, the name coined for the area by Jordan after it annexed the territories in 1948 Ben Yaacov was speaking at a conference his group held yesterday at Jerusalem's Diplomat Hotel in which he laid out plans for the proposed Jewish authority. Several hundred Israelis were present in spite of strong rainstorms throughout the area.

The initiative aims to create the authority in any part of Judea and Samaria, even a small settlement, in hope of eventually ruling the entire territory, Ben Yaacov announced, explaining those who remain would provide for their own security.

"The fact that we are here speaking openly about this plan is a huge breakthrough," Ben Yaacov said. "We have crushed the psychological barriers and trampled on all the things the government tried to do so stop this conference."

Ben Yaacov deserves all our respect for taking on this enormous challenge to save Judea and Samaria from the ethnic cleansing we saw in Gaza. I envy the man's leadership, courage and conviction to stand up strong against virtually the entire world's anti-Jewish demands.

-MZ