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Related: About this forumIsrael's Netanyahu Announces Construction Of 300 New Settler Homes In West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Wednesday ordered construction of 300 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move aimed at placating settler anger over the planned demolition of an illegally built outpost nearby.
The decision infuriated the Palestinians, who have refused to conduct peace talks while Israel expands its settlements on occupied land. It also risked drawing an international backlash.
Netanyahu has been grappling with a domestic crisis over the unauthorized settlement outpost of Ulpana. The Supreme Court has ordered the five apartment buildings in the outpost to be removed by July 1 after determining they were built on private Palestinian land.
Netanyahu has said he would honor the ruling, while Jewish settlers and their hard-line allies in Netanyahu's government have vowed to resist the order.
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Fozzledick
(3,859 posts)About as well as negotiating did. The settlements continue regardless.
kayecy
(1,417 posts)Israel hasn't built outside of established settlement blocs since the mid 1990's.
Abbas could agree right now to the Clinton Parameters from 2000-01 as settlement building since then hasn't changed the landscape.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)because no matter how you wish to parse it that is reality
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... do you envision your dream of "one-state" coming about?
I'm curious.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)it would seem so
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... how do you see it playing out?
How and when does your one-state utopia come into being.
I'm still curious
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)if allowed to proceed unchecked. I would like to see the Palestinian UN bid succeed and from that 2 states would be reality
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)How? Still curious.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)renders any explanation to you quite useless
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)I understand.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)the occupation is sustainable for the foreseeable future
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Israel announced plans on Wednesday to build 851 new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank after parliament defeated a bill to sanction all settler apartments on privately-owned Palestinian land.
Palestinians insist Israeli settlements, built on land Israel captured in a 1967 war, will deny them a viable state, and they refuse to return to peace talks frozen since 2010 until their expansion is halted.
Israeli Housing Minister Ariel Atias announced the plan to build 551 housing units in various settlements across the West Bank and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier said 300 new apartments would be constructed in the settlement of Beit El.
Atias said 117 housing units would be built in Ariel, 92 in Maale Adumim, 144 in Adam, 114 in Efrat and 84 in Kiryat Arba settlements.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=493004
gotta keep that 'natural' growth going
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"The thought of having Jewish settler homes demolished on his watch has propelled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promise a radical some say ludicrous way to sidestep a Supreme Court order to raze 30 apartments built illegally in the West Bank.
After it evacuates settlers from five apartment buildings in the Ulpana outpost this week, the government has promised to slice the structures from their foundations and move them to a West Bank site nearby, where they will be reassembled.
Construction specialists say transplanting the buildings three-story concrete structures faced with stone and topped with red tile roofs would squander huge sums of money and be infinitely more complicated than destroying and rebuilding them.
Netanyahu came up with the plan after the government was ordered to dismantle the outpost. People close to the prime minister say he believes that preserving the homes will ease the pain for the families.
The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government earlier this year to destroy Ulpana after determining it was built on privately owned Palestinian land.
"By the first of July, the plan is to have the buildings vacated and sealed," a government official said this week, speaking on condition of anonymity about a project whose details have not been finalized. "The prime minister said he wanted these buildings relocated, not destroyed."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501713_162-57461332/israel-plan-to-move-settler-homes-raises-eyebrows/