Friday, July 15, 2011

A War Over Migron

I have posted over the years a good many notices, including posters, concerning Migron.  I arrive home, and there's a new one and a new campaign.

The poster is from a group calling itself 'The Committee on Behalf of Migron' - and there's a maverick group of 'Ramat Migron' - but I am not sure this is the offiical representative:


A flyer distributed this week and signed by the Rabbi of Shiloh makes the following points:

a) the petitioners didn't know they 'owned' the land that Peace Now found for them;
b) the lands were registered 50 years ago but were kept by the Mukhtars and never transferred to the 'owners'. it was a false land deal;
c) the Jordanian Law permits a court to disavow ownership of property never attended to;
d) is property cases, where errors occur, usually substitute land is made rather than destruction of homes;
e) the government was the body that built Migron to all intents and purposes;
f) the proper court for such issues is not the High Court of Justice;
g) the original petition was withdraw after it became clear that the 'owners' were not the owners.
h) deals were agreed to years ago and not agreed to.

What will be?

The Bible notes a previous battle near the site, at I Samuel 14


1 Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men, 3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone...

Will there be another war at Migron?

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