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Titolo: 'The Right has the passion, the commmittment...and the numbers'

If Sunday's meeting of the Knesset Law Committee on the fate of Beit 
Yehonatan can serve as an accurate gauge of the relative strength of 
Right and Left in the Knesset, the Right, including the coalition, has 
nothing to worry about from the opposition.
The meeting was the second scheduled by committee chairman David Rotem 
(Israel Beiteinu) to discuss illegal building by Jews and Arabs in east 
Jerusalem, and in particular the court order to evacuate the inhabitants 
of Beit Yehonatan and seal the building.
Beit Yehonatan is a seven-story residential structure built without a 
permit by religious-nationalist elements who want Jews to settle in the 
Arab neighborhood of Silwan.
Rotem summoned Jerusalem Municipality legal adviser Yossi Habilio to 
explain why he insists, against the opinion of Mayor Nir Barkat, that 
the court order should be implemented immediately.
Four MKs submitted motions to the Knesset to discuss the matter - all 
four of them from the right of the political spectrum - Ze'ev Elkin and 
Yariv Levin (Likud), Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi) and Uri Ariel 
(National Union).
Altogether, a battery of 11 right-wing MKs, including the four who 
submitted the motions, six committee members and Shas MK Nissim Ze'ev, 
were there to attack Habilio's position and accuse him of discriminating 
against Jews. The Law Committee MKs were Rotem, Michael Ben-Ari 
(National Union), Uri Orbach (Habayit Hayehudi), Uri Maklev (United 
Torah Judaism), Avraham Michaeli (Shas) and Tzipi Hotovely (Likud).
Facing them was one member of the opposition, Taleb a-Sanaa (United Arab 
List-Ta'al). Sanaa was as fiery and passionate as the 11 right-wing MKs 
but somewhat outnumbered.
In the old days, Labor MK Ophir Paz-Pines would almost certainly have 
attended the meeting, but he is now gone.
The three opposition committee members who did not attend were Hanna 
Sweid (Hadash), and Yohanan Plesner and Shlomo Molla (Kadima).
Sweid pointed out that he was Christian and therefore did not generally 
attend Knesset meetings held on Sunday. But he added that even had the 
meeting been held on another day he would not have come because his main 
parliamentary mission is to fight to legalize illegal construction in 
the Israeli Arab sector.
Sweid told The Jerusalem Post there was a world of difference between 
the situation regarding Beit Yehonatan and the illegal construction by 
Arabs who are denied access to their own land for building homes. 
However, he said, he did not want to confuse anyone or be accused of 
hypocrisy by calling for the evacuation and sealing up of Beit Yehonatan 
while fighting to legalize Arab construction.
Molla told the Post he was busy representing members of his Ethiopian 
constituency who demonstrated on Sunday in front of the Prime Minister's 
Office while the Ministerial Committee on Legislation debated whether to 
support a bill sponsored by Molla calling for bringing over the remnants 
of the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia immediately.
Plesner said he had not been informed of the meeting by his aides but 
that he generally used his day off from the Knesset for outside meetings 
and visits in connection with his parliamentary duties. He added that he 
knew little about the Beit Yehonatan affair.
Whatever the reasons that brought or did not bring the MKs to the Law 
Committee meeting on Sunday, it was clear that if passion and commitment 
to the issue were the keys to determining the outcome of the dispute 
over whether to implement the court order or not, the Right would win 
hands down.
However, it should be pointed out that of the 13 members of the law 
committee, nine (including a Labor Party representative) belong to the 
coalition or to the right-wing opposition, as opposed to four from the Left.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147861498&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Dan Izenberg , THE JERUSALEM POST

 Dan Izenberg , THE JERUSALEM POST
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