Ulpana Residents, Government Sign Agreement

Arutz Sheva ^ | 20/6/12 | Elad Benari

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Residents of the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El, whose homes were ordered to be demolished by the Supreme Court, agreed on Tuesday evening to leave their homes willingly and non-violently. In return, the government will keep its promise to built 300 new homes in Beit El.

The agreement between the residents and the government was signed after ten days of negotiations between government representatives and representatives from Beit El, including the town’s rabbi, Rav Zalman Baruch Melamed, and its mayor Moshe Rosenbaum.

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The agreement also stipulates that the homes on the disputed land will be moved to a new location without being destroyed.

The residents of the Ulpana neighborhood clarified in a statement on Tuesday evening that they were accepting the agreement “with a heavy heart.”

“Following a consultation by Rabbi Melamed with community leaders and representatives of the neighborhood this evening, it was decided to accept the government’s plan with a heavy heart,” the residents said.

“We wish to repeat the words of Rabbi Melamed, that the proposed outline in return for construction to which the public is entitled anyway and the government is required to deliver anyway, in exchange for an agreement to remove the homes, is like telling a father that his son will be taken away from him in exchange for ten others,” they added. “The pain of the houses that are being taken away will not cease and the stain will not be removed from the government.

“However, we are peaceful people,” the residents emphasized. “Struggles between brothers tear the entire public, and our community in particular, apart. We, of course, stand behind the rabbi’s decision that the 33 families will leave their homes in a way that obviates the need to see things that none of our people wish to see.”

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