Meretz head: I feel for Amona residents, government is failing

In a Facebook missive, Zehava Galon, leader of the left-wing Meretz party, expresses sympathy for the Amona evacuees but excoriates fellow lawmakers for trying to lash out at the court for ordering the demolition and the government for mishandling the situation.

“The real hardships and pain of the Amona residents can’t justify stealing private Palestinian land, and they definitely should not be pawns in order to justify the systematic theft that the government has proposed under the name of the regularization bill,” she writes.

“A government that fails to solve a real estate problem for 40 families is supposed to be the one that deals with all the complications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The problem is not Amona or this or that outpost, the problem is that the government doesn’t have any real plan, not to solve the conflict and not to manage it,” Galon adds.