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Naomi Linder Kahn

Naomi Linder Kahn

Naomi Linder Kahn is director of the International Division of Regavim, a research-based think tank and lobbying group dedicated to preserving Israel’s resources and sovereignty.

Illegal construction work on the “Gate of Mercy” structure is causing permanent harm to the ancient structure.
A joint project of the P.A. and the European Union is taking over a strategic area in the center of Gush Etzion, “restoring” an historic village that never existed.
The new city of Rawabi near Ramallah is a shining example of a modern urban center, built according to a development concept based on high-saturation housing that conserves valuable land resources.
Under the new plan, the Bedouin Authority will approve building plans for some 150,000 residential units in total—some 40,000 of which will receive land allotments as early as 2021.
When sovereignty is not exercised, it is lost. A government that does not enforce the law does not govern, and the vacuum is filled immediately, and often, irrevocably.
Nearly six years have passed since the Supreme Court’s decision was handed down, and yet new illegal construction continues apace.
The bottom line: A new Arab city is being built in a strategically critical area, creating a swath of territory under Arab control stretching from the Arad Valley to the Hebron Hills and eastern Gush Etzion.
Edwin Samuel, British Foreign Office Spokesperson in the Middle East and North Africa, recently visited the illegal Arab outpost known as Khan al-Ahmar, where he declared that the British government “is conducting a campaign to save this village.”