It is so easy to rip MK Miri Regev (Likud ) to pieces. She doesn't even make an effort to mask her racism with twisted wording. She means what she says and what she says is repulsive: Expel the Sudanese, annex the settlements to Israel, and stop making us crazy with this talk of a "peace process." All told, Regev is nothing but a small MK with a big mouth, who embarrasses her party and provides "normative" ministers an opportunity to condemn those who hate black people and object to the whitewashing of crimes.
Meanwhile, at a time when the former Israel Defense Forces spokesman prattles on about the need to deport 60,000 African migrants, the former IDF chief of General Staff is quietly overseeing the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from their land.
Under the command of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the IDF are reducing the already tight living space of the Palestinians who are living in Area C, which is under total Israeli control. Although the number of settlers in this area, which constitutes 60 percent of the West Bank, is double the number of Palestinian residents, the number of files opened against them for illegal construction is only a third of those opened against against the Palestinians.
While the settlers enjoy a friendly enforcement policy and generous government aid, of the 1,426 requests for building permits from Palestinians in Area C between 2007-2010, the Civil Administration approved only 106 and actually issued only 64 permits.
U.S. and European taxpayers are footing the bill for rehabilitating the infrastructure of the Palestinian villages that Israel has neglected in its 45 years of control in the West Bank. If not for German intervention, Barak's inspectors would have destroyed the energy installations that the Germans donated to the cave-dwellers in the Hebron Hills. Fear of Jewish thugs and the seeming helplessness of the defense establishment is keeping Palestinian landowners and merchants away from their sources of livelihood. Right-wing activists joyfully report the negative Palestinian migration from the territories. This is the Barak version of "willing transfer."
Barak doesn't need Regev's bill to annex the settlements. In 2011 he approved the construction of at least 1,850 homes in the settlements, of which 35 percent are in isolated communities beyond the planned route of the separation barrier (according to the settlement watch staff of Peace Now ). The defense minister is responsible for the evacuation of Bedouin residents and the destruction of Palestinian homes in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim with the intent of building a neighborhood that will effectively annex the city-settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem, a process that would stymie the possibility of implementing a two-state solution.
Two weeks ago, in an interview with Army Radio regarding the Ulpana Hill settlement, Barak blurted out - probably without even realizing it - that "Beit El, Ofra and Baal Hatzor Hill are all important places that will stay in Israel's hands under any permanent arrangement."
Barak surely knows that it is impossible to annex settlements like Beit El and Ofra, which are only about 10 kilometers from Ramallah, and also to reach a permanent arrangement with the Palestinian government sitting in Ramallah. Perhaps that explains why he told last week's Institute for National Security Studies conference that if Israel cannot reach a permanent arrangement with the Palestinians, "we need to think about an interim agreement, or even unilateral steps."
In March of last year, Barak told another INSS conference that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's suggestion for a long-term interim agreement was a pipe dream, and added, "Even if we come to speak about an interim agreement, it would have to include a description of the future permanent solution."
A confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained then that, "in the past two years, we haven't tried to put the core issues on the table." What has Barak done since then to prevent what he himself has described as a "diplomatic tsunami?"
In response to those critical of her "jobs bill," which is aimed at allowing a minister to allocate desirable positions to up to four members of their party, Regev said, "All I want to do is render the vermin kosher." But the leader of the Atzmaut faction doesn't need that bill. He has already arranged great jobs for himself and the four colleagues who deserted their party with him.
So his grandchildren will be able to talk about their grandfather who koshered the vermin of the government of Hannibal the Jew, and also helped play the requiem for Zionism.
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