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Amona ((ヘブライ語:עמונה)) is an Israeli outpost in the central West Bank. Located on a hill overlooking Ofra within the municipal boundaries of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, the village was founded in 1995 on privately owned Palestinian land. As of 2012, its population was around 200. As of October 2013, the outpost lodged 42 families.〔 The High Court of Israel ruled in 2006 that the settlement is illegal under Israeli law,〔Motti Inbari, ''(Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple? )'', pp. 166–167. SUNY Press, 2009〕 but as of March 2013, its status remained unresolved as the Israeli government continued to fight the court's eviction order. In May 2014 an Israeli police investigation revealed the entire outpost lay on private Palestinian land, and that documents used by settlers to claim they had purchased the sites were forged. In December 2014, the Israeli High Court ordered the state to completely evacuate and demolish the settlement within two years. The international community considers all Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. Its name is derived from the Book of Joshua 18:24, where it is named ''Kfar HaAmmonai'', literally, Village of the Amonites. == Background == Amona was founded in 1995 on privately owned Palestinian land〔('Meet the settlers:Chapter 5,' ):'Amona, in the central West Bank, which was founded in 1995 on private Palestinian land.'〕 by young settlers from Ofra who thought it was getting too urbanized for their taste.〔Ilene R. Prusher,('Peace by Percentages in Mideast,' ) Christian Science Monitor, June 11, 1998.〕 It was one of the first outposts. Amona was constructed on property the Palestinians of Silwad used to cultivate and grow crops on, land that it was stolen from them by Ofra teenagers.〔Mitch Ginsburg, ('Amona, the West Bank’s largest outpost, clears another hurdle,' ) The Times of Israel July 25, 2013〕 According to documents of the Israeli Civil Administration, the land had been cultivated and worked by local Palestinians until the outpost was erected, though the settlers claim that the site was a rocky hilltop before.〔Chaim Levinson, (''Much of Amona outpost built on cultivated Palestinian land, Civil Administration says'' ). Haaretz, 22 August 2013.〕 Yesh Din states that Amona is built on the land of three Palestinian villages, Silwad, Ein Yabrud and Taybeh.〔('The unauthorized outpost of Amona: How Israel dispossesses Palestinians of their private,' ) Yesh Din 1 December, 2013.〕 Amira Hass, interviewing one of the Silwad petitioners, Abed al Rahman Ashur, writes: "In Arabic we say about cultivated land that it is 'laughing' land," says Abed al Rahman Ashur, 70, who is one of the 10 petitioners together with Peace Now against the unauthorized Jewish outpost Amona. Back at the start of the 1980s, nine dunams he owns, planted with fig trees and grapevines, stopped laughing by force of various military orders preventing access to them. Thirty-two dunams stopped laughing after the outpost of Amona was established at the end of the 1990s on private lands belonging to inhabitants of the villages of Silwad, Dir Jarir and Taibeh.〔Amira Hass, ('In West Bank buying land isn't always what it seems,' ) Haaretz 10 January, 2012.〕 It is usually categorized as an ''outpost'' because its construction was never officially approved by the Israeli government, although according to the settlers, the state played a role in supporting the outpost through the provision of electricity and other services by Israeli utilities. Amona has become highly symbolic,〔Chaim Levinson, ('Illegal West Bank outpost to be razed by end of 2012, Barak decides,' ). Haaretz, 1 November 2011:'() has become one of the symbols of the settlement movement in recent years.'〕 revealing the role in the settlement enterprise of the settlement movement, the Israeli State and the Court. In 1997, the first demolition order was issued, followed by another one in 2003. In 2006, settlers were evacuated, but only nine permanent buildings were razed. In 2008, the state said that construction on the site was illegal and announced that the entire outpost would be razed. In 2011, the announcement was repeated, but as of January 2015 the outpost was still there.〔(''The Amona complex'' ). Haaretz, 16 October 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amona, Mateh Binyamin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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