To: The israeli government
Nirit Will not Become a Settlement in the Occupied Territories

We, the undersigned, support the struggle by the residents of Nirit for the immediate cessation of the construction of the new West Bank settlement, Nof Hasharon. Nof asharon is really a part of the West-Bank settlement of Alfei-Menashe, a settlement beyond the Green Line. However, Nof Hasharon is to be attached, de facto, to our community, Nirit. We reject this attempt to coerce a small community in Israel, established within the Green Line, into becoming a settlement. We find it inconceivable that while the Israeli government is promoting disengagement in other places, the authorities are approving a hurried procedure for the annexation of a new settlement, in occupied territory, to an existing, long established Israeli village. We demand an immediate halt to the ill-considered construction of this new settlement