Bennett attacks High Court ahead of West Bank outpost demolition

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) addresses a protest rally ahead of the demolition of the Netiv Ha’avot outpost in West Bank, slamming the High Court of Justice for ordering the community to be bulldozed.

“Anyone who wants to demolish 15 homes here will receive 350 houses on this very hill… I have no other word [to describe the situation] except absurd … I do not remember a legal action with so little logic as here,” Bennett tells the crowd.

“At times, [the judges of] the High Court of Justice are major activists on behalf of human rights,” Bennett says sarcastically. “But suddenly when it comes to citizens here, that activism is frozen. When it comes to the rights of the settlement movement, suddenly the court is passive.

“Unfortunately tomorrow the homes will be evacuated, but at the same time, we have already established the continuation of the neighborhood, but the campaign will be crowned with success when the prime minister’s promise is fulfilled in full,” to legalize the remainder of the outpost, Bennett adds.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, also a member of the pro-settlement Jewish Home party, says the settlement movement will emerge stronger after the evacuation of the outpost.

“We have changed the discourse from one of how we evacuate to how we legalize and we are in the midst of a process of legalizing all of the settlement in Judea and Samaria,” she says, using the biblical name for the West Bank “From this difficult and unnecessary evacuation, we will be strengthened and build ”

— Jacob Magid