NEVE EREZ, West Bank - Israel began on Monday an operation to remove settler outposts in the West Bank under a U.S.-backed "road map" to peace affirmed at a Middle East summit last week, an Israeli military source said. "The evacuation of the illegal settler outposts has begun," the source said. A Reuters television cameramen said army tractors dismantled the uninhabited settler outpost of Neve Erez near the West Bank city of Ramallah, destroying two caravans. It was not immediately clear how many of the some 60 settler outposts established in the West Bank without Israeli government permission would be uprooted. Israeli media reports estimated about 15 would be scrapped.
Once again making it seem, to the Palis, that killing leads to appeasement. This is just sad and wrong. |