An emergency meeting of the Amona community residents following the Supreme Court’s ruling rejecting government’s petition to postpone the Dec. 25 demolition, called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to save the day. Avihay Boaron, Chairman of the community’s struggle committee, delivered a direct message to Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying, “If, God forbid, you will not manage an arrangement of the homes of Amona’s residents and the lives of our children, we will stand as a fortified wall together with thousands who will arrive here from across the country on that day, when we move to a tent city we will erect in the coming days, to do all we can so that Amona will not fall a second time.”
Avihay Boaron, an attorney, told Netanyahu, whose Likud party received an estimated 4 to 5 out of its 30 Knesset seats from Judea and Samaria voters: “You are the commander-in-chief and you will decide the fate of Amona. We heard you saying today that you are attentive to our distress. We’re not looking for sympathy, we demand action, not talk. The only way to take care of us is to let us stay home.” He added: “The responsibility rests with you and your government ministers.”
Tamar Nizri, one of the founders of Amona, told the Prime Minister: “You once said that you are the captain of our ship. You are the captain of our state and we believe in you, and we need you to navigate us. We need you to help us stay here and go on preparing dinner for our children and raise them and rejoice with them and go on living in this community.”
“We came here 18 years ago, a young couple with a baby girl,” Nizri continued. “She just got married a month and a half ago and lives with her husband here, in Amona… I’m telling you as one of the mothers here, we want to keep raising our children, get them married, watch our grandchildren here, climbing the trees that are yet to grow, and it’s in your hands.”
Nizri then called on Netanyahu to support the Arrangements Act, to permit her and her family to stay in their community, and “be a leader who creates a new reality.”
