Guest post by Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, The Sovereignty Movement
Kiryat Gat is a symbol of Ben-Gurion’s vision to settle the northern Negev under Israeli sovereignty — yet precisely there, an international headquarters has been established, one that could undermine our sovereignty.
In Kiryat Gat, a city born from David Ben-Gurion’s dream of settling the northern Negev, a new international control center has recently been established — part of what is called the “regional agreements,” supposedly meant to bring a “stable Middle East.” But behind these enticing words lies a troubling truth: in the heart of the State of Israel, a piece of Israeli sovereignty is being handed over to foreign hands.
Ben-Gurion must be turning in his grave. The man who wholeheartedly believed in the Jewish people’s power to return and rebuild their land — who saw Kiryat Gat as a symbol of the Zionist ideal of making the desert bloom — never imagined that the very place he envisioned as a center of national strength would one day host an international command station. Luba Eliav, who was first entrusted with founding the city out of deep belief in the Zionist-settlement vision, never dreamed that an international force would take up residence in the heart of a sovereign Jewish city.
Eighty-seven soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade gave their lives in this area during the War of Independence. They fell for the independence of the State of Israel — not for foreign forces or regional administrations. Their blood cries out from the ground: no to international supervision, no to the loss of the Jewish state’s independence.
Sovereignty means Israel’s full control over its destiny, its security, its resources, and its land. There is no such thing as “shared sovereignty” or “stable international oversight.” Every such arrangement undermines the very foundation of our existence — being a free people in our own land.
The Sovereignty Movement calls upon the government, the Knesset, and the public at large to awaken. The so-called “stable Middle East” will be built only through an uncompromising insistence on full Israeli sovereignty — not by transferring powers to foreign entities, not by establishing international centers in the heart of our cities, and not by weakening our hold on the land.
In Kiryat Gat, we must wake up. We must remember why this city was founded, what its founders envisioned, and what our soldiers sacrificed for. We must declare loud and clear: in the State of Israel — sovereignty belongs to the people of Israel, and to them alone.
This declaration must have practical implications. We must restore Jewish control in Gaza, apply our sovereignty there and in Judea, Samaria, and the Bashan, and return to a national Zionist path of Hebrew labor, making the desert bloom, building towns and communities, and encouraging large-scale aliyah .
Our hope is not yet lost — the two-thousand-year-old hope:
To be a free people in our own land.
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