EU MUST STOP FUNDING PALIES ILLEGAL BUILDINGS IN JUDEA/SAMARIA

[Rebbetzin]

Hi everyone,

I don’t know about you, but one of the subjects that comes to my mind when I think about Eretz Israel is its ancient archeological effects that are dotted throughout the country and the yet to be discovered wonders that lie beneath its soil.

We hear about Egypt a lot, and rightly so, but my interests also lie in the acknowledgement of the much needed preservation and upkeep of certain historical and ancient tombs. Particularly is it so in relation to the tombs of the Patriarchs and others which are sacred places to the Jewish people, naturally enough. All peoples, well, most peoples are zealous for their articles of antiquity because remembering the past is vital to understanding who we are today. This is the very thing that is under great threat today, the understanding of our inherited past, no matter who we are, for good and for bad, we must not hate our pasts, but learn and inculcate the lessons that our pasts should bring to each and everyone of us.

The Apostle Paul said that we should examine ourselves. Yeah, that. The sometimes ghastly inward journey that any fervent disciple who wants to know more about their Father YeHoVaH’s love through His Son Yeshua HaMashiach must undertake. If you don’t study the past, how can you interpret anything in the present, particularly when the educational institutions are spewing out that there are no absolutes? No truth. Just the now and the utopian world some megalomaniacs want to make for themselves and their evil desires.

This brings me to the deplorable (yes, there’s that word again, she ruined it, didn’t she 🙄) antics of destruction that are going on at some of Israel’s most revered archeological sites, particularly the ancient tombs of the Patriarchs and their families and descendants. It’s not enough that the Fakestinians are the ones who practice land grabs on Israeli controlled territories, they have successfully desecrated many of the tombs and ancient sites. “Jesus was a Palestinian” they say. So stupid. “Jesus” lived in Judea, not Palestine. He was a Hebrew and of the area of Galilee, decidedly he is not a “Palestinian”. But, to the ignorant the lie lands where it will and festers in the minds of the uneducated or poorly educated, festers there in their inner pot of hate and regurgitates the lie in unison with their fellow ignoramuses, all the while projecting their own inner hatred onto their prey of choice.

There’s a lot of talk about the West Bank and the Palestinian state by all and sundry, and that’s nice and all that jazz. But even with the diabolical acts, the murderous rhetoric and the illegal meddling of many in Israel’s affairs, there is no current solution by anyone except for naughty, bad Israel to give up more of their land, which is something they should never do again. Instead, they must claim more of the land that is rightfully theirs. And so, therein lies the daily turmoil over this one issue with all its complexity. The EU and other factions would like to chuck Israel right out of their precious “West Bank”, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. Baruch HaShem!

Just as an aside, a couple of weeks ago we were doing a bit of shopping at our local smaller stores nearby. A group of mothers with their children were gathered together on the pavement outside the supermarket having a chat, their various children at their sides or in their prams. Some of the little children, around 5-6 years old and both male and female were dressed in their martial arts uniforms, the white ones with the belts. We overheard one mother comment about another’s daughter doing martial arts, to which the mother of the child replied, “Oh yeah! Gotta be ready for when those Israelis come!” To giggles and smirks and mutterings amongst the other cackling hens gathered together. Folk, we live in a little coastal village with a broad age spectrum of inhabitants. In the almost 20 years that we’ve lived here we have seen the little hamlet grow into a vibrant and well sought after place to live. However, the demographic is mostly of Ango-Saxon-Celtic origin with a smattering of other nationalities, or “new Australians” as we once used to call them, and of course the representatives of the local tribes of the Aboriginal people.

Tell me, what the Dickens does this little backwater of a coastal town know about Israel? Obviously, not enough, but what they do think they know, surprised both the Rebbe and myself.

Propaganda has always been used to sway just enough of the masses. Joseph Geobbels would be so proud of how well those that despise Israel, Jews or Zionists and who are alive and well and executing a vicious plot to rid the Jewish people of their YeHoVaH given Land and heritage and them along with it. I’ve said it before: get rid of the Jews and you get rid of God and in their minds, His plan for the ages will be disrupted. Sounds more like evil’s plan to me.

Let’s face the truth once and for all, the real hateful oppressors are the Fakestinians and those in lofty towers who support them, including our government. It is not the people of Israel. It’s those who scream: “Globalise the intifada!” And, “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!” And, “Israel commits genocide!” And, “Death to the IDF!” And other equally murderous taunts wishing death to the people of Israel and replace them with those who have no proper regard for the Land and who desecrate repeatedly with the blood of innocent Israelis. Can you really blame the Israelis for going “hard”. I’m pretty sure my government would not fight for this country the way the true inhabitants of that land have done and will do while they draw breath.


“The EU’s Double Game in Samaria: Sanction the Watchdog, Fund the Pali Land Grab

“ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ

“ISRAEL NEWS
“JULY 26, 2026

“An illegal recreational compound funded by the European Union has been discovered sitting partly on Israeli state land in Area C of northern Samaria, the Israeli NGO Regavim announced, calling it a stark example of European hypocrisy that comes just weeks after the EU sanctioned the group itself.

“Regavim’s field coordinator found the compound during a routine inspection of state land as Israel moves to restore and expand Jewish communities in northern Samaria. Built in 2025 on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Silat ad-Dhahr, the site includes an entrance gate, a broad access road, benches, a pergola, playground equipment and a light-construction utility structure. Official signage at the site credits the European Union with funding both the compound and its access road.

“Part of the site spills over from Area B into Area C, onto Israeli state land near Sa-Nur, one of four Samaria communities evacuated during Israel’s 2005 Gaza disengagement and now being resettled.

“Naomi Kahn, director of Regavim’s International Division, said the discovery came from routine monitoring work tied to that resettlement effort. “Our field coordinator did a standard sweep to update our data on the areas being repopulated by Jewish communities in northern Samaria. He discovered a recently built recreational compound with European Union sponsorship signage and Palestinian Authority credits. But the compound, which ‘spilled over’ from Area B, is sitting on Israeli state land in Area C,” she said.

“Kahn drew a direct line between the discovery and the EU’s own sanctions against Regavim, imposed weeks earlier. “The whole thing is illegal and awesome at precisely the same time the EU has sanctioned law-abiding Israeli civil society organizations, including Regavim, without even the pretense that they are guilty of doing anything illegal,” she said.

“Sanctions Over a Demolished School

“The European Council adopted restrictive measures against Regavim and its director, Meir Deutsch, on May 28, accusing the group of petitioning Israeli courts to demolish “Palestinian property with the aim to expand the control of Israel to the whole West Bank and institute legal proceedings to that end.” The EU’s announcement specifically cited Regavim’s role in the demolition of an EU-funded Palestinian primary school in the village of Jabbet al-Dhib, near Bethlehem, which the Jerusalem District Court had ruled a serious safety hazard before it was torn down.

“Kahn said the sanctions were retaliation for that case, and warned they were unlikely to be the EU’s last move against Israeli civil society groups or the courts that rule in cases they bring. “Their aim is to curb the independence of Israeli courts and then the Israeli government,” she said. She argued the sanctions were designed to deter judges from enforcing the law at all. “Knowing that Regavim has been sanctioned for bringing suit, a reasonable judge will ask him or herself whether it’s worth having their assets frozen, their travel restricted, their reputation dragged through the mud for the sake of enforcing the law against a rinky-dink structure that the E.U. will simply pay to rebuild.”

““The Facts on the Ground Do Not Lie”

“Roi Druker, Regavim’s Judea and Samaria regional director, who discovered the compound, framed it as part of a much larger pattern playing out anywhere Israel has stepped back from an area. “The facts on the ground do not lie. Wherever there is no Israeli presence and no settlement, a vacuum is created that leads to rampant encroachment and an enormous loss of state land,” Druker said. “This is an unprecedented act of audacity by the European Union, which imposes sanctions with one hand while, with the other, violates international law and Israeli jurisdiction in Area C.”

“Druker called on Israeli authorities to act on the discovery immediately. “It is time to stop looking the other way. It is time to look the problem in the eye, and to demand that both the Palestinian Authority and its European benefactors live up to their obligations and obey the law,” he said. “We demand that the enforcement authorities and the Civil Administration act immediately to demolish the illegal compound and restore governance and order to the northern Samaria region.”

“Regavim described the compound as one example of a broader pattern of construction on open land in areas Israel effectively vacated for two decades in pursuit of a negotiated resolution with the Palestinians, land the group says has since been steadily absorbed through unpermitted Palestinian and EU-backed building. The government’s renewed push to resettle communities like Sa-Nur is aimed, in part, at reclaiming what officials describe as a strategically vital area that has become, in Kahn’s words, “a hotbed of terrorism.”

“The Money Follows Israeli Jurisdiction, Not Palestinian Need

“The geography of EU funding gives away its purpose: money flows specifically to Area C, where Israel holds jurisdiction and where every new EU-backed structure chips away at Israeli control, while Area A, home to the large majority of the Palestinian population and already under full Palestinian Authority civil and security control, receives no comparable EU construction program at all. If the goal were simply to raise Palestinian living standards, the money would go where the most Palestinians already live. Instead, it is aimed precisely at the strip of land still under Israeli control, which is the tell: this is a campaign to shift territorial facts on the ground, not a humanitarian program.

“The EU funds its own, publicly acknowledged “Area C Development Programme,” now in its seventh phase and totaling €23.2 million across 73 infrastructure projects in 59 Palestinian localities, according to the EU’s own delegation to the region. The program’s stated rationale is that Palestinians living in Area C, the roughly 60% of Judea and Samaria under full Israeli civil and security control, face “serious limitations” on development that Palestinians elsewhere do not, since building in Area A requires no Israeli permit and no outside funding push to begin with. The EU does not run a comparable donor-funded construction program in Area A, because none is needed there. The entire premise of the Area C program, by the EU’s own account, is that Israeli jurisdiction is the obstacle its funding is designed to work around, which is a description of a land campaign, not a description of poverty relief.

“Regavim and allied researchers have tied that funding directly to the “Fayyad Plan,” a strategy laid out by former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad starting in 2009 to establish facts on the ground, schools, roads, homes and public buildings, specifically in Area C, in order to make an eventual Palestinian claim to the territory harder to reverse regardless of the outcome of any negotiations. Regavim’s most recent comprehensive survey counted 87,610 illegal Arab structures in Area C as of 2022, up 80% in a single year, with another nearly 10,000 added by May 2024, bringing the total past 97,000. The group has documented more than 600 kilometers of illegally built access roads and over 112,000 meters of retaining walls and terracing supporting that construction, much of it funded by EU member states and channeled through Palestinian development bodies such as the Municipal Development and Lending Fund. None of that infrastructure serves Palestinians in Area A, where it isn’t needed; all of it serves the singular goal of establishing an irreversible Palestinian footprint on land still under Israeli sovereignty.

“The History Behind “West Bank” and “Judea and Samaria”

“This article uses “Judea and Samaria,” the name by which this region has been known throughout Jewish history, reflecting the biblical kingdoms of Judah and Israel that stood there for over a thousand years and gave the world Hebron, Shiloh, Shechem, and Bethel. The name was in continuous use, including by the British Mandate administration, until Jordan invaded and occupied the territory during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. Jordan formally annexed it in 1950, an annexation recognized at the time by only two governments in the world, Britain and Pakistan, and rebranded it “the West Bank,” a reference to its location west of the Jordan River, matching Jordan’s own territory on the river’s east bank. The renaming served a specific political purpose: folding the territory into the Hashemite Kingdom’s own geography and severing its Jewish and biblical identity in the process. Israel’s government reversed that rebranding immediately after retaking the territory in the 1967 Six-Day War. As early as July 22, 1968, Israel’s official committee on names ruled that the territory should be called Judea and Samaria, and in 1977 the Israeli government mandated the name’s use in all official state documents, including military orders, a policy still in force today.

“The term “West Bank” has nonetheless persisted internationally, but that is beginning to change. Arkansas became the first American state to sign into law a requirement that state documents use “Judea and Samaria” rather than “West Bank,” in 2025, and Florida’s House of Representatives passed a similar bill in February 2026 barring the term from public schools and state agencies. Legislators in Georgia and Oklahoma have advanced comparable measures. At the federal level, Rep. Claudia Tenney and Sen. Tom Cotton have each introduced the “RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act,” which would bar federal materials from using “West Bank” at all, and Tenney has launched a “Friends of Judea and Samaria Caucus” in Congress to build support for the shift. Oklahoma state Sen. Julie Daniels, introducing her own state’s version of the bill, said the goal was “to correct the record and affirm the historic and biblical connection of the Jewish people to Judea and Samaria,” arguing that a term “created in 1948 for political reasons should not be allowed to erase the true name of the biblical heartland of the Jewish people.” The EU’s continued insistence on “West Bank,” even as that tide turns elsewhere, keeps the bloc anchored to a Jordanian-invented label built to erase the very history its own development programs are, in practice, working to overwrite on the ground.“

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Am Israel Chai!

Love and Shalom,

Rebbetzin Glenys xo