Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is cautioning against calling for resistance in the event that the IDF has to evacuate the Amona outpost.
Liberman says that the “army must not get dragged into a political event,” Liberman says, speaking at the opening of a new military base complex in the Negev desert. “It is very important that the IDF remain in the Israeli consensus.”
“For those who don’t understand the hint, I’m talking about the regulation bill and the possibility that we will need to evacuate Amona,” Liberman says.
The High Court has ruled that the government must evacuate the West Bank settlement that is built on private Palestinian land.
Amona, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, May 18, 2016 (AP/Oded Balilty)
“I can’t accept the things that I heard this morning about resisting evacuation. I expect all the Knesset members to be very clear about this,” Liberman says.
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