letting the Khan Al Ahmar problem go away quietly

There was another interesting development today regarding the illegal settlement of Khan Al Ahmar, and the need to evacuate it. After years of avoiding the issue and refusing to evacuate the illegal Bedouin settlement, despite the Supreme Court having approved its evacuation, today the government, the "full right" government who made pledges to evacuate it and whose members include ministers who promised this would be a central demand, submitted to the Supreme Court a request to cancel the evacuation order saying they are working on a resettlement compromise, in addition to the evacuation being too sensitive at this time with far reaching diplomatic repercussions should we evacuate the settlement.

So the full right government that made this a central issue not only wants to continue delaying it indefinitely, but now wants to cancel the order altogether...

Minister Smotritch, followed by Minister Ben Gvir, did not like that and is using his power to halt the State's filing on this matter to request the cancellation of the order. It seems Smotritch has, theoretically, the power to do so as all government communications on this matter are supposed to go through him, as per coalition agreements. 

We'll see what excuse they use this time to allow it to happen without making more than a superficial opposition to the matter. Until now every time their own government does something they dont like, something that until now they would always make a big ruckus about, they simply say we are doing other important things so this wont derail all that other good. Will that be a good enough justification this time? Or will they find a better excuse this time? Or will it play out differently this time as they hold their ground?

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