Summary
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Palestinian Authority is a master at inventing history. Arabs claim they have
been there long before Jews although evidence proves the contrary. The tactic
is conquering the southern Hevron Hills.
The Palestinian Authority, with direct financing of the European
Union and blind acceptance of lies as facts by media, is swallowing up the
southern Hevron Hills, a huge area between Kiryat Arba-Hevron and Arad-Be'er
Sheva.
The latest chapter in the Palestinian Authority's re-invention of
history is taking place in Susiya (pronounced "Soos-eeya")
located two miles from the armistice line, on the western edge of the Judean
Desert that leads to the Dead Sea, and less than half an hour from Be'er Sheva,
the capital of the Negev.
The Arab strategy: An Arab family erects a tent, illegally, near the archaeological
site of the ancient town of Susiya. As time passes, the tent becomes a
makeshift structure, which expands into several structures. With the support of
extreme left-wing activists, the 'ancient' town of 'Palestinian Susiya' is
invented.
This makes for a great human interest story, but for one setback —
the 'ancient Palestinian Susiya' never existed. It does not show up
on any records.
Yigal Dilmoni, deputy director-general of the Yesha Council, states,
"Fifteen-year-old aerial photos clearly show that there was no Arab
village at this site ... The Arabs have come from the village of Yatta, and ...
repeatedly disseminate lies."
[Back in June 2013], the Civil Lands Authority issued
approximately 40 stop-work orders against projects funded by the European Union
and intended to firm up Palestinian Authority claims to land where they never
lived until Jews came to the area in 1983.
In that year, for the first time in 1,500 years, Jews began living
in the southern Hevron Hills, setting up a community in nearby Beit Yatir, two
miles to the south, and in Susiya, where the old Jewish town that existed until
approximately the 6th century.
Until 1983, the area experienced zero growth. Hot summers, cold
winters, with occasional snow, and the lack of roads and water resources kept
people away. Any land that was farmed by Arabs was done during the spring and
summer and abandoned after harvest time, until the following year.
None of the land was ever registered as owned by anyone. During
the Ottoman Empire, and under the British Mandate, the rulers of Hevron would
sit in their living rooms and parcel out lands arbitrarily. That was the extent
of "ownership."
When Jews came to Beit Yatir, the Arabs followed. Three families
from Yatta, a city adjacent to Hevron, fled because of family crimes, such as
rape, and set up camp on a hill adjacent to Yatir, Their village quickly became
known as the "Thieves' Village," for obvious reasons. They claim, of
course, that they have been living there from time immemorial.
As a resident of Beit Yatir, and a security officer at the time, I
and my colleague reported theft after theft to the police — laundry on the
clothes lines, tricycles, shoes left outside and anything else that was not
nailed to the ground. Further down the road, our moshav's tractors often were
stolen and tracks always led to the Thieves' Village.
Susiya was established in the same year. No Arab lived there. Nor
did they live in the ruins of the old city of Susiya.
But when the Civil Lands Authority issued the stop-work orders,
the first step towards demolition orders, the left-wing movements and the
Palestinian Authority reinvented history. "The Palestinian village of
Khirbet [ruins of] Susiya has existed in the South Hebron Hills at least since
the 1830."
The International Solidarity Movement [ISM] wrote, "The
residents of Susiya include more than 30 families, who were all evacuated from
their homes in the old Susiya village and forced to relocate 200 meters to the
southeast, in 1986,"
This is a lie. They never lived there, not in 1830 and not in 1986 and not in
1996. A handful of Arabs sowed the land in the spring, harvest the crop in the
late summer and went back to Yatta.
"Susiya has been the site of creative non-violent resistance
for years, resistance that is continually met with brutality," according
to the ISM.
Part of the "non-violent resistance was the cold-blooded
murder of Yair Har Sinai in 2001. He was shot dead in the head and the back by
terrorists while, unarmed, he was tending his flock of sheep. Even though his
murderers were known, they were never apprehended.
Losing control of the southern Hevron Hills is a free pass to
terrorists who use the back trails to smuggle weapons from Bedouins in the
Negev, as far away as the Dead Sea and south of Arab. Terrorists also take
explosives from the area and use the same route to travel freely and wait for
the right moment to blow up Jews in urban centers, from Be'er Sheva to Tel
Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
The gradual erosion of Israel control over what is supposed to be
Israeli-controlled "Area C" has endangered the entire area. Thousands
of Arabs have moved in, set up tents and built homes with the funding of
hundreds of millions of dollars by the European Union.
Lacking any history of the area, most media swallow up the Arab
story, hook, line and sinker.
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