Israel: "Why do they hate us?", "Oops, is it because we are stealing more land?"
Peace Now organization has published a scary report regarding settlers, here is a quick summary:
In the past months the government of Israel has continued to evade its responsibility to evacuate the unauthorized outposts in the West Bank. It appears that the summer of 2006, marked by the fighting in south Lebanon, provided a golden opportunity for the settlers to deepen their hold on the land without the media being available to cover it. Meanwhile, the situation in Lebanon gave the government the alibi it needed to excuse its continued shirking of its responsibility for what goes on in the territories regarding the outposts. The evacuation of the outpost of Yitav East is a case in point, as an exception that proves the rule, because it was an unmanned outpost consisting of three mobile homes that was built in the middle of 2005.
The evacuation of that outpost, just like its construction, did not require unusual effort and the choice to single it out for evacuation proves yet again that the government of Israel continues to be indecisive out of fear of confrontation with the settlers. But not only were the outposts not evacuated: during that period the government of Israel continued to allow the existing outposts to grow and develop. The list shows that in at least 31 outposts construction and development activities have been noted in the last months, while in 12 of them the construction of permanent structures was documented.
It appears that the government’s failure to evacuate two groups of outposts that were supposed to be the first two in a series of evacuations illustrates the extent of the continuing failure: the first was of outposts that were centers of particularly violent activity against the Palestinian residents of the area, which Amir Peretz promised to evacuate when he assumed the office of defense minister.
More information can be found:
For Construction in Outposts - click here
For Construction in the Settlements - click here
For the report in Ynetnews
for the report in Haaretz
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