Avoid a needless clash
Op-ed: West Bank community of Migron is not an illegal outpost and must not be evacuated
We better internalize the following: The Judea and Samaria community of Migron is not an outpost; indeed, Migron is a full-fledged community.
We are not talking about some isolated hill here with four huts on top of it. This is very much a home. The evacuation of Migron would not be similar in any way to the removal of temporary hilltop structures. Rather, such eviction would be more similar to the evacuation of Amona before the disengagement, where forces and residents clashed en masse.
Indeed, the evacuation of Migron would be madness.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party cannot afford to betray their voters and their ideology like this. They must not evacuate a community at this time when this is not done in the framework of a compromise or an agreement, and when everyone knows that it is possible to legitimize the site via legal regulation.
There would be no point in carrying out the evacuation. The situation begs for a creative solution.
Such solution would require the residents of Migron to show openness and willingness to go for a regularization agreement, which may demand that they make several compromises as well.
However, the challenge here is a joint one: At a time where Israel’s national camp is in power and there is no hint of a partner on the Palestinian side, the rightist government must formulate – along with the Judea and Samaria leadership – a solution that would allow the residents of Migron to stay at their homes.
