English translation: Temporary restraining order in force until 30 June 2014.
Forces should not take any steps that should cause any irreversible outcomes until the matter is taken up in review before the Court.
Addressed to: Gush Etzion Regional Council IDF Commander, Judea and Samaria Forces Defense Minister (Moshe Ya’alon) Prime Minister (Binyamin Netanyahu)
Judge: Hon. Micky Ya’as Vabeno Michael Cha’as
If expelling a family from their home and demolishing it, and destroying a community’s kindergarten are not irreversible steps, I don’t know what is. One can certainly rebuild a building – and even build it better. But recreate the exact same structure, one built with one’s own hands? Never.
How will they explain it to the Jewish children – presumably their little brethren! — whose entire history they’ve just erased in a morning? What about their clothing, their things? A hairbrush, a favorite doll, a nightshirt?
How many Jews were traumatized needlessly in this stupid action? Thousands of shekels and years upon years of lawsuits and treatment for trauma lay ahead – for the families and the government that could not, or would not stop the armed force it aimed against its own people.
How many parents and children will suffer from nightmares and flashbacks in the years ahead? Of the little boys whose homes were destroyed, how many will want to be soldiers when they grow up to be men? How many will look to police and see an enemy to be feared, rather than protectors of society?
Of their parents, how many have today been inspired to join the extremist movements, rather than moderated their views?
Was anything accomplished with the rush to destroy, other than appease the European Union and its proxy, the radical Peace Now leftists?
In a heartbeat, the government of the State has betrayed them – and betrayed itself too. How can a military ignore a Supreme Court order? Has the State of Israel at last become an anarchist nightmare, ruled by might, not right?
