Nine houses, eight of which have families living in them, surrounded by other Ofra houses populated years ago and uncontested, are the middle of the latest provocation of the radical left. After intensive and expensive research "Yesh Din" managed to find Arabs willing to have their names on a request from The Supreme Court to have an injunction placed on use of the houses.
In spite of their exhaustive efforts to push Arabs into court against Jews, even attorney Avi Licht, the state's representative, told the court that the petitioners to the court are not those to whom the land is registered.
The Attorney General's instructions to the court on Thursday led to a judge's decision that people should not move into the houses. In a court decision where every word has significance, this decision makes the entire issue curiouser and curiouser since eight of the nine houses already house families who bought them before the building was begun well over a year ago.
It would seem that the rumor that Mazuz's opinion is contrary to everyone else's - in his own office and without - are accurate.
With Dani Dayan calling for Ofra's day in court, where proofs are weighed, just as everyone else's claim that someone is using property not belonging to them, Pinchas Vallerstein makes clear what anyone with a shred of understanding knows - The houses in Ofra merit thousands of us crowding Israel's jails.
Perhaps most eloquently put, when random passers-by were asked about the issue, one secular young man virtually scratched his head in puzzlement, "Ofra? That's within the consensus."
