Defense Minister Barak is offering the residents of Ofra a deal.

Peace Now claims that 9 homes (from the hundreds) built in Ofra are illegally built on Arab land (the Left of course claims that almost all of Ofra is built on "stolen" land, but they have to start the ball rolling somewhere).

They have been pushing for those homes (to start off with) be destroyed.

The residents of Ofra of course claim that the land is legally theirs as Ofra was built on State-owned land given to them by the Rabin-Peres government, on what was once an IDF military base (and before that a state-owned Jordanian military base).

So now Ehud Barak is coming with a deal.

His deal is straightforward. If the residents of Ofra agree to a building freeze, then the government will recognize the disputed land ("disputed" - just like the State of Israel), as legally belonging to Ofra.

Amazing how he can do that. Makes you realize that there is really nothing illegal at all, besides the illegal lack of recognition of a Jew's right to live everywhere in Eretz Yisrael.

Of course it's not clear what Barak is defining as the borders of Ofra, or the rest of the fine print.

But the real problem (besides the concept of the settlement freeze itself) is that we've learned from experience that Barak simply can not be trusted when he cuts a deal.

So far he's cut a few famous deals with the Settlers, and each time he's openly lied and tricked us, and simply used the negotiations and deals as a deception tactic to get what he wanted.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.