Posted on 06/29/2002 12:11:50 PM PDT by Phil V.
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Ben-Eliezer: IDF has until Sun. to dismantle 10 illegal outpostsDefense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Saturday morning that he has ordered the security services to take down ten illegal outposts by Sunday evening.
"And afterward I intend to take action to take down other outposts," he said.
Ben-Eliezer, who is also Labor Party chairman, made the comments during an appearance before the Labor youth committee, at the Holiday Inn in Jerusalem. He told those attending the meeting that most of the illegal outposts were established before he became defense minister, more than a year ago.
According to the Interior Ministry's population registry there are twenty illegal settler outposts in the West Bank today. Ben-Eliezer said he was determined to dismantle all of them.
Security sources said that the first ten settlements will be dismantled by the Yesha Council of Jewish Settlements.
Ben-Eliezer and Defense Ministry officials have held intensive contacts on the evacuation of settlements with Yesha heads and Ze'ev Hever, the secretary-general of the Amana movement that assisted in the building of the outposts.
The defense minister told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week that within days he would dismantle 13 illegal outposts that were built following an agreement he signed with the settlers approximately one year ago.
Upon leaving the Knesset meeting, he refused to provide details on the timetable he gave to the MKs, but confirmed that he was investigating the matter. Ben-Eliezer said that security of the residents at the outposts and legal aspects were the two central considerations on the issue.
"I will soon be able to evacuate that which needs to be evacuated," he told journalists.
15 illegal settler outposts established since outbreak of intifada Also taking part in the meeting were senior IDF officers, among them Deputy Chief of Staff Gabby Ashkenazi, GOC Central Command Major General Yitzhak Eitan, Coordinator of Government Activities in the West Bank and Gaza Major General Amos Gilad, and members of the defense ministry. According to IDF data presented at the meeting, since 1995 sixty illegal settler outposts have been established in the territories. Fifteen illegal settler outposts have been established since the outbreak of the intifada, half of them in the vicinity of Hebron.
A security source told Ha'aretz that it is clear that action needs to be taken. "The situation cannot remain as it is. The IDF cannot guard all of the settler outposts. The Israeli governments fell asleep while on guard duty and allowed this phenomenon to grow, and now the army cannot allot enough forces to guard these settlements."
By Yossi Verter, Ha'aretz Correspondent
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Just curious !
Arafat? If only Iraqi-born Labor Party chairman Ben-Eliezer was as serious in dealing with the families that send their kids to blow themselves up...
So why has Israel never considered territory captured from Jordan and Egypt permanent Israeli territory anyway?
And why can't there be Jewish population in future (unlikely) Muslim territories?
Inquiring minds would love to know.
I differs as it's agendas differ. That is to say, for instance, that environmentalism (the new home of socialist game players) is the foundation upon which, increasingly, Bedouin are dispossessed from the land and into camps. Enviros in Bedouin out
How do they square their heart-and-soul support of Israel with these values ?
By the way, I've been "accused" of being " another LarryLied "for expressing something other than heart-felt approval of plans to destroy Iraq. Figured you'd get a chuckle out of that !
That scenario WILL BE the one that eventually plays out. But in the meantime good international PR is always important . . .
No settlements are to be dismantled, not even the most isolated of them. If Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer wants to remove a few "illegal" outposts, he can amuse himself by doing so. In any event, the settlers set up some of these outposts for the purpose of removing them, so that they will be able to maintain other, more important sites of this kind.
Here's the correct link . . .
No settlements are to be dismantled, not even the most isolated of them. If Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer wants to remove a few "illegal" outposts, he can amuse himself by doing so. In any event, the settlers set up some of these outposts for the purpose of removing them, so that they will be able to maintain other, more important sites of this kind.
I do seeing as I have no problem with us taking out Saddam. The sooner we inflict a crushing defeat in that part of the world, the better.
The MO is always the same here and always Clintonesque: accuse others of what they don't say because what they do say is not the party line.
You pretty much have summed up my position. We should be very careful in dealing with Israel. We don't share the same values and I hope we never do. Israel turns a blind eye to many things which are unthinkable for us to tolerate.
And that, contrary to what you will hear, is not an expression of support for Arafat or the Palestinians. It is nothing more than concern for American interests.
We can be allies with Israel and support Israel. In fact,we always will. But great caution is needed.
The Geneva Conventions forbid occupying powers from settling their citizens in the occupied territories. Technically, all of the settlements in the West Bank are in violation of those treaties.
Well, see, we have this thing about terrorism....we don't like it. We are NEVER going to take the side of people who kill innocent civilians, women and children. Now, if Israeli women and children were throwing themselves in front of bombers that would be a whole different story. If Israelis were marching in the streets, burning the American flag, and screaming at the top of their lungs "Death to America" we might feel a little different.
But we DO have enemies in common with them, and those enemies are using the Palestinian mess to try to derail us. And after the things that were done in OUR name over the Clinton years, I'm not about to throw any stones. We have our own messes to clean up.
PR Firm to G.O.P. Stars – Including Tom DeLay – Also Baits Israel
Well, he might follow the precedent set by the British when they were the ones in charge of that area before 1947. What was their policy...and would you call that genocide?
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