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Israel Identifies 28 Outposts for Removal
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Israel has slated 28 unauthorized West Bank outposts to be torn down under the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan, security sources said Tuesday. But critics argue the plan requires Israel to dismantle more than twice that number.
The roadmap required the Paleos to do a few things too, as I recall.
The list was disclosed a day after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a convention of his hawkish party that even some of the larger veteran settlements would have to be removed - either under the roadkill road map or under his own proposed unilateral plan to disengage from the Palestinians. The road map requires Israel to remove all outposts erected since March 2001. The Peace Now watchdog group says there are at least 60 of them. Several dozen others established before March 2001 are not addressed by the road map. The 28 outposts identified by the Israeli Defense Ministry include 18 inhabited communities housing about 400 settlers, security sources said Tuesday. The largest is Migron, home to 43 families, the sources said. Raanan Gissin, a Sharon spokesman, said the premier has given approval "in general" for dismantling outposts, often just a trailer or water tower on a hilltop.
Those should be easy. Do them and challenge the Paleos to respond on the roadmap.
The security sources said Israeli military officials had preferred to keep the list secret, fearing settlers would flock to them. But the list was made public after a request by a lawmaker from the dovish Meretz Party. It wasn’t clear when, or if, the 28 outposts would be removed. A formal order must be issued, and settlers have 15 days to appeal after that. "We will struggle against this and intend to appeal to the Supreme Court to stop this process," said Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, a settler spokesman.
Ah, lawyers.
Posted by: Steve White 2004-01-07
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