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        WE CAN                                                                         15,000 students.  Anyone traveling on Route 465 - the Trans-Binyamin Highway - near the newly built
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                                                                                        sewage that permeates the highway.
                                                                                        sewage that permeates the highway.
                                                                                      problems.
                                                                                        Anyone traveling on Route 465 - the Trans-Binyamin Highway - near the newly built
                                                                                        planned city of Rawabi and the Jewish community of Ateret - cannot ignore the smell of the
                                                                                        planned city of Rawabi and the Jewish community of Ateret - cannot ignore the smell of the
                                                                                       yards from the road,and directly into the nearby village of Wadi Hamam.
                                                                                       yards from the road,and directly into the nearby village of Wadi Hamam.
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                                                                                       For a long and uninterrupted period, a stream of raw PA sewage has flowed just a few
                                                                                       For a long and uninterrupted period, a stream of raw PA sewage has flowed just a few
                                                                                       The source of the sewage is one or more of the Arab villages adjacent to the road: the
                                                                                       The source of the sewage is one or more of the Arab villages adjacent to the road: the
                                                                                       villages of Yabrud and Jifna or the town of Bir Zeit, which also has a large university with
                                                                                       villages of Yabrud and Jifna or the town of Bir Zeit, which also has a large university with
                                                                                       The sewage flows along a path several miles long, creating, in addition to the foul odors,
                                                                                       The sewage flows along a path several miles long, creating, in addition to the foul odors,
                                                                                       additional hazards of mosquitoes, severe environmental pollution and various related health
                                                                                       additional hazards of mosquitoes, severe environmental pollution and various related health
        THE MAP
                                                                                                     The Khan al-Ahmar litmus test
                                                                                                   Opponents and proponents of relocation agree that it’s about the two-state solution
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                                                                                                    on the side of Road 1,
                                                                                                    on a small dip in the
                                                                                                    road that one could
                                                                                                    miss if one blinked
                                                                                                   H while driving from the Dead Sea up   c״^
                                                                                                    to Jerusalem.
                                                                                                   Even for those with their eyes
                                                                                                   wide open, the small scattering of   ״ ״ ״  as1״  *״ ?**
                                                                                                   tents and shacks that make up his
                                                                                                   herding village of Khan al-Ahmar
                                                                                                   looks fairly inconsequential spread
                                                                                                   out against the sandy hillsides of
                                                                                                    But for the 58-year-old shepherd,
                                                                                                   the Judean Desert.
                                                                                                    who spoke with The Jerusalem Post
                                                                                                    through a translator, the encamp-
                                                                                                    ment is a home worth fighting for.
                                                                                                    He is among some 180 Bedouin
                                                                                                    residents of the village of Khan   X'V ״ ,  Id m .-V  ״ • V...  2 ״ ״ ? : . x :״ '    ..  •• *    ״ <
                                                                                                    al-Ahmar who have repeatedly told
                                                                                                    the State of Israel that they have no
                                                                                                    intention of accepting the reloca-
                                                                                                    tion plans it has offered them.
                                                                                                    The fate of the village is now in
                                                                                                    the hands of the High Court of
                                                                                                    Justice, which could decide as early
                                                                                                    as this coming week whether the
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                                                                                                    families living there will be forcibly
                                                                                                                 ties “specifically planned,” about
                                                                                                                 which public statements have been
                                                                                                    relocated, possibly imminently.
                                                                                                                 made “that they are there to create
                                                                                                             hold on the Ma’aleh Adumim bloc
                                                                                                    At issue before the court is a series
                                                                                                             and that its continued presence
                                                                                                    of technical Israeli legal questions
                                                                                                    regarding illegal construction,   A BEDOUIN man looks after his animals in the disputed encampment of Khan al-Ahmar near Ma'aleh Adumim last month. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
                                                                                                             there is a direct Palestinian chal-
                                                                                                                 territorial contiguity” for the Pales-
                                                                                                          Some fear this could also include
                                                                                                             lenge to Israeli control of Area C of
                                                                                                          construction in El.
                                                                                                    property ownership and the via-
                                                                                                                 tinians.
                                                                                                                 The EU, she said, has supported
                                                                                                          the resumption of work on the
                                                                                                    bility of alternative locations that
                                                                                                    mark the end of what has been a
                                                                                                       At issue is the location of the
                                                                                                       in recent weeks.
                                                                                                          security barrier in that area, which
                                                                                                              The Knesset’s Land of Israel Cau-
                                                                                                                 Regavim, along with the Kfar
                                                                                                       village. It is situated just outside of
                                                                                                             the West Bank.
                                                                                                                 these efforts.
                                                                                                          has been frozen for over a decade
                                                                                                          precisely because it would place El
                                                                                                    But the campaign to save the vil-
                                                                                                    nine-year legal battle.
                                                                                                       the boundaries of El, which is an
                                                                                                              cus group asked Prime Minister
                                                                                                                 Adumim settlement, is among
                                                                                                              Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense
                                                                                                       unbuilt tract of land belonging to
                                                We are                                              of the West Bank, where the village   the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement.  for Khan al-Ahmar are outside the   month to ensure its evacuation.  nine years to relocate the school.
                                                                                                                 those who have petitioned the
                                                                                                    lage has spread well beyond Area C
                                                                                                           Both of the relocation options
                                                                                                          inside the route of the barrier.
                                                                                                                 High Court of Justice over the last
                                                                                                              Minister Avigdor Liberman late last
                                                                                                       The Palestinian Authority and
                                                                                                    is located, and has reached as far as
                                                                                                       much of the international com-
                                                                                                              The Khan al-Ahmar case is “a
                                                                                                    the European Union and the Unit-
                                                                                                                 Kahn said the decision to move
                                                                                                           route of the barrier, according to
                                                                                                                 against the community was taken
                                                                                                              watershed” moment and “a fun-
                                                                                                       munity, including the EU and the
                                                                                                    Khan al-Ahmar supporters hold
                                                                                                    ed Nations Security Council.
                                                                                                       UN, believe that construction in El
                                                                                                           Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, architect and
                                                                                                                 in 2009, when a European-funded
                                                                                                              damental test case for Israeli sov-
                                                                                                                 elementary school was built there.
                                                                                                    that no less than the future of a Pal-
                                                                                                           head of the left-wing NGO Bim-
                                                                                                              ereignty that entails the strategic
                                                                                                           kom’s planning and community
                                                                                                       would make the territorial conti-
                                                                                                              interests of the State of Israel,” cau-
                                                                                                                 The school was seen as a sign that
                                                                                                    estinian state is resting on whether
                                                                                                                 the community intended to stay
                                                                                                       guity of a Palestinian state difficult
                                                                                                    the clan can remain at the site
                                                                                                              cus chairmen MKs Yoav Kisch and
                                                                                                           “If you want to clean up this area
                                                                                                       and thus unviable. EU diplomats
                                                                                                           department.
                                                                                                    where they have lived for decades.
                                                                                                                 Last month EU foreign policy
                                                                                                    To underscore the significance of
                                                                                                                 there and grow, Kahn said.
                                                                                                           of Bedouin, you start with one com-
                                                                                                              Regavim spokeswoman Naomi
                                                                                                              Bezalel Smotrich wrote.
                                                                                                       frequently visit the village in soli-
                                                                                                                 chief Federica Mogherini public-
                                                                                                        darity with its plight.
                                                                                                           munity and then it will be easier to
                                                                                                              Kahn said that Khan al-Ahmar is
                                                                                                    the site to the larger diplomatic
                                                                                                              part of a long string of illegal Pal-
                                                                                                        They worry that the forced
                                                                                                           Right-wing Israeli politicians and
                                                                                                           move others,” he said.
                                                                                                    battle for self-determination, Pal-
                                                                                                              estinian and Bedouin communi-
                                                                                                        relocation of the village, which they
                                                                                                        hold is illegal under international
                                                                                                    estinian flags have fluttered from
                                                                                                    polls stuck on the hillside and have
                                                                                                           tion of the site is critical to Israel’s
                                                                                                    at times been placed along Road
                                                                                                        efforts to relocate the Bedouin
                                                                                                     1 near the village. Demonstrators
                                                                                                        from that area, in preparation for
                                                                                                     with Palestinian flags have also at
                                                                                                     times temporarily blocked the road  law, is just the start of Israeli   NGOs also believe that the reloca-
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