The drive to restore Homesh over U.S. objections is being driven by far-right members of Israel’s new government.
HOMESH, West Bank — As Rabbi Menachem Ben-Shachar looked at the white trailer that had been hastily set up at the edge of a steep drop-off, he saw something not precarious but reassuring: the return of his people to this abandoned outpost in the West Bank.
A few hundred yards below, from the Palestinian village of Burqa, Amead Dasoqi can also see the trailer. To him, it is an ominous sign: “After [the settlers] left in 2005, we had a few years of peace,” he said.Israel’s new government So far, Israel has not approved any new homes in the settlement. But Dasoqi and his neighbors have gotten a glimpse of what the future might hold, including an increase in Israeli soldiers, rolling military checkpoints and vigilante violence.On two occasions in recent weeks, gangs of masked men ran through the village, breaking windows and burning hay bales.
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