Posted February 6 2008 by David Tayne
Disengagement II?
According to unnamed sources, residents of the Israeli town Kochav Hashachar were delivered notices of eviction this afternoon by the government of Israel. Residents were told that if they leave early and peacefully they will be partially reimbursed for the loss of their homes. Many people we heard about tore up the letter after reading it, some took stronger approaches, but all of them were terribly shaken by the sudden announcement.
Kochav Hashachar is a Yishuv (settlement) located 18 miles North of Jerusalem.
We at Jewneric know that this is not hard evidence and our information for now is only based on hearsay. We will be working hard to provide better coverage of this issue in the the forthcoming days.
Below is a small history of the first Israeli Disengagement: (source Wikipedia)
On August 13, 2005, the Gush Katif region was closed to non-residents, in keeping with the plan to evacuate the Katif bloc. Though effectively violating the Disengagement law which most residents viewed as highly immoral and illegitimate, most settlers did not voluntarily leave their homes or even pack in preparation of the eviction. On August 15, 2005, the forcible evacuation of the Gush Katif settlements began. On August 22, 2005, the residents of the last settlement, Netzarim, were evicted. In essence, many residents returned to pack the contents of their homes and the Israeli government began the destruction of all residential buildings. On September 12, 2005, the Israeli Army withdrew from each settlement up to the Green Line. All public buildings (schools, libraries, community centres, office buildings) as well as industrial buildings, factories and hothouses which could not be taken apart were left intact.
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7 Comments currently posted. 
Dave Weinberg says:
Tiffany Sameyah says:
I have been attempting to monitor this story, and find it on YNet, Ha’aretz and other Israeli news sites but it is no where to be found.
Zechariah Mehler says:
Tiff thats the point here. Jewneric broke this story no one else knows yet
Dave Weinberg says:
As far as I understand from Israeli sources, this news has been coming for a while. In case of a peace settlement in the upcoming months, residents of the settlements that might be given back are being given the early opportunity to leave now peacefully so that there won’t be the same problems that the nation encountered in 2005.
Benji Rosenzweig says:
I want to cry when I read this stuff.
Jewneric » Leader of Entebbe Airport Rescue Dead at 70 says:
[...] of the death of Israel’s first astronaut; we’ve seen - possibly - the seeds sown for a very hush-hush 2nd “Disengagement” beginning with the small town of Kochav HaShachar; a suicide bomber killed one woman and wounded 38 [...]
ben-yehudah says:
B”H I have yet to hear anything about this either. There were posters put up in the Shomron about threats (yet again) to take down Mitzpeh Yitzhar and kick out it’s residents. Mitzpen Yitzhar is not too far from Shchem.
Kokhav HaShahar is a town of many families and has been there for quite some time. Perhaps the reference was to new neighborhoods of caravans like Ma’aleh Shlomo. This does not make it less serious, of course.
Let’s call it “expulsion,” and not disengagement (just a silly euphemism). The gov’t has learned from some of its mistakes in doing evil, and will try to do its evil this time more efficiently. There is a law proposed by Hayim Ramon YSh”W to make it illegal to live outside of the “security fence.” There is another organization trying to encourage residents to move out voluntarily.
The gov’t has also started reducing its Mivtzar security program, allowing residents to provide security to their own towns, and replacing them with soldiers. They know from experience in Azza that genereally speaking residents will not attack Jewish soldiers and there are plenty of “rabbanim tze’irim” (lashon HaRamba”m) who tell them not to refuse orders, and who tell reisdents to hug the soldiers and leave quietly.
Yitzhar and a few others will not leave quietly. There are many in the religious Zionist movement who will follow Torah before the state when there is a stirah. We follow rabbis like Rav Dov Lior of Hevron-Qiryath Arba, Rav Yisrael Ariel and Rav Eliaqim Levanon of Elon Moreh.
The gov’t make try to neutralize these towns first, and there may be blood. HaShem yishor weyerahem!
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