Israel ignores road-map over illegal outposts

[torresdD]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=457995

Israel ignores road-map over illegal outposts
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
28 October 2003
excerpt

Jewish settlements in the occupied territories
remain one of the biggest obstacles to peace.

They occupy large parts of the remaining 22 per cent of
British-mandate Palestine, where the Palestinians want to
set up the independent state they were promised by
President Bush and in the road-map.

The outposts were built without Israeli government
permission and are illegal under Israeli as well as international law.

While the larger established settlements are effectively
big towns of permanent buildings, surrounded by high
fences and guarded by the Israeli army at vast expense,
the outposts are usually just a few caravans and portable
buildings set up on remote hilltops by Jewish extremists.

At Aqaba, Mr Sharon promised to dismantle the outposts,
and a few highly staged evacuations, complete with punch-ups
between settlers and Israeli soldiers, ensued.

But only seven were dismantled out of a total of 104.

Since then five new outposts have been put up,
Peace Now, an Israeli peace group that monitors the
settlements, said.

Now eight of the outposts,
Mitzpe Kramim, Migron, Neve Erez, Haresha,
Pnei Kedem, Ibei Nahal, Asahel and Shirat Hayam,
will get government services.

Mr Sharon has always been politically allied to
the ideological settlers, and in the wake of the
Oslo accords he urged the settlers to seize the
hilltops before a peace deal could be agreed.

The decision to provide services to the outposts
comes after the Israeli government issued tenders
for hundreds of new houses in existing settlements,
in direct contravention of the road-map, which calls
for a freeze on settlement building.

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:23:22 GMT, "torresdD" <torr...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Israel ignores road-map

What roadmap ?

[Patrick EMIN]

"torresdD" <torr...@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:eCxnb.21272$%u2.1...@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...

> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=457995
>
> Israel ignores road-map over illegal outposts
> By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
> 28 October 2003
> excerpt

Thanks for posting this information but it cannot be considered as news.
News from the middle east will come when israel will respect an
international law.