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The army evacuated them once;
they promptly returned. The outpost
was built as an act of revenge, Zar said,
for the shooting death of his brother,
Gilad, on a nearby road in May 2001.
His brother had been the head of secu-
rity for Karnei Shomron, a West Bank
settlement where the brothers grew up.
There is a rustic, almost Old West
feeling to the outpost. Overlooking a
Palestinian village, Havat Gilad is acces-
sible only by a dirt path off the main
road. At the entrance, a wooden Star
of David built into a pair of wooden
posts welcomes visitors. One of the
posts bears a faded orange ribbon left
over from the campaign in 2005 against
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
The settlers say they are proud
they used Jewish labor to build their
homes; most Jewish houses in the
West Bank are built by Palestinian
laborers. Private donations paid for
their generators and water tanks.
Zar says an American Jewish donor
provided $30,000 for initial infrastruc-
ture costs in Havat Gilad.
If an outpost is dose enough to a
major settlement, usually it will hook
up to the larger settlement's water
lines. Some of Havat Gilad's infra-
structure was built by Amanah, the
development company of the settle-
ment movement. Until a few years ago,
Amanah was funded by the Israeli
government. Now it operates as an
association and receives donations.
A 2005 government report on illegal
outposts found that many had roads
paved and other infrastructure built
by government agencies, despite their
illegality, usually when local munici-
palities misrepresented where the gov-
ernment funding was going.
At the Shir LaMelech yeshiva at
Havat Gilad, Avi Lezer, 26, pauses from
his text study to consider his position
on the State of Israel.
"What is there to believe in? The
government is a tool and it had great
potential, but now it's broken down:'
said Lezer.
Some younger students say they
stand for a new path, unflinching and
messianic.
"Our parents have their heads still
in the Galut," said Ariel Perelman,
20, referring to a diaspora mentality.
"They agree with us, but they don't
have time to make revolutions."
Yediah Shoam, 19, said, "We are in
a war for the Land of Israel, and yeah,
we'd shoot. I'm both kidding and not
kidding. We need to prevent evacua-
tions, and war is war."
During the Gaza evacuation of 2005,

Shoam was in the Gush Katif settle-
ment bloc in Gaza — one of hundreds
of West Bank youth that poured in to
thwart the evacuation. He was shocked
that Israeli security forces were able to
carry out what he considered unimag-
inable.
For some of Shoam's comrades, that
led to disillusionment, not just with
the state but with Israeli democracy
itself. Many settlers had voted for Ariel
Sharon and later, in a Likud Party
referendum in 2004, against his with-
drawal plan. But the withdrawal from
Gaza was carried out anyway.
It was after the Gaza evacuation,
Zar says, that his outlook hardened.
He grew a beard and started wear-
ing the large knit kipah of the more
fervent settlers and the culture of the
new yeshiva, which identified with
Bratslaver Chasidism.
Zar has a factory at the edge of
Havat Gilad where he makes alumi-
num siding for trailer homes in the
West Bank.
He says he feels connected with
Israel's founders even as he feels alien-
ated from what the Jewish state has
become.
"I like to read about the pioneers;'
Zar said, referring to the secular
Jewish immigrants who settled pre-
state Palestine and are mythologized
in Israel for working the land and
forging a new society "I feel myself to
be close to them. Perhaps we are even
more of pioneers than they were' Fl

This is the second article in a series by
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, said last month that
Zionists and the Zionist (controlled)
media were behind the charges that
the recent Iranian presidential elec-
tion was rigged.

The Answer
Iran's leadership is steeped in anti-
Israel and anti-Semitic ideology
based on canards of Jewish control
of the media and government.

- Allan Gale, Jewish Community

Relations Council

of Metropolitan Detroit

0 Jewish Renaissance Media, July 2, 2009

