…And today thanks to the global aggression against this tiny state, today’s Cabinet meeting grappled with, and not for the first time, the fate of the families at Amona and really the fate of 2,000 other Jews living likewise in less than authorized communities, though in this, there is a lie that I am unwittingly passing on.

I mean, these so-called outposts were not given formal documentation for their establishment. However, the Israeli utilities responsible for providing electricity, telephone lines and cellphone towers, roads, the water supply, all came through. To say Amona and similar outposts are unauthorized is also to accuse all these public utilities of collusion in their “illegal” existence…