Yesterday, a caravan of government building inspectors came escorted by soldiers to our village of Tekoa.  They came to issue fines to people who were building homes here.  This is due to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s declared freeze on building in Judea and Samaria.  The amazing thing is that building goes on as usual in all of the Arab villages around us.  This is despite the fact that they build without permits.

How sad.  Imagine if California declared that Jews are not allowed to build but Koreans are.  Imagine if an order was made by the Prime Minister of France saying Jews could not build homes in Paris.  Such things are unthinkable in today’s day and age.  Yet here in the Jewish State of Israel, in the land of Judea, for which the Jews are named, we are not allowed to build our homes because we are Jewish.  Muslims and Christians build freely but not Jews.

Here is a video of part of what happened yesterday.  It is in Hebrew but what you are seeing is a line of vehicles coming to the gate of our village, entering and starting to fill out tickets to stop building that was legal last week but has now been declared illegal.  You will see some of the people from our village pleading with them to be reasonable and the inspectors ignoring them.  Toward the end you will see Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari (the guy in the suit and tie) chastising the inspectors for obeying immoral orders of the government.  He tells them:

You want to come here and show us that you are strong that we should be afraid of you?!  Let me tell you something, you are assisting the worst enemies of Israel!  The fact that you are following orders will not save you.  The people of the settlements are stronger than you and they will be victorious.

Here’s the video

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