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Jews continue to build West Bank settlements
Jews are developing West Bank settlements on occupied Palestinian land despite Israeli court rulings and hostile world opinion.
Peace Now, which monitors settlement building in the occupied territories, said on Monday that existing settlements had been reinforced with new infrastructure such as paved roads, running water and electricity in the first four months of 2004.
"As of this month, despite court rulings and evacuation orders there have not been any serious removals on the ground," it said in a report based on its latest aerial survey of West Bank settlements.
The international community regards the Israeli settlements as illegal, although Israel disputes this.
Occupied land
It is estimated there are around 450,000 Jewish settlers living on illegally occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
An auditor's report released last week said Israel's Housing Ministry, run by a pro-settler coalition partner, had funnelled nearly $7 million into building "outposts" and supporting infrastructure from January 2000 to June 2003.
The United States, Israel's main ally, has demanded some "outposts" be torn down as part of a peace "road map" that promises Palestinians a state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Peace Now's study said more than 50 permanent houses were being built, further caravans were sprouting and roads being paved at a number of "outposts" in the West Bank.
Court ruling
It said 95 of the hilltop caravan clusters were inhabited and 61 of them built without government approval since right-wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took office in 2001.
The Supreme Court in March dismissed petitions by settlers protesting against plans to evacuate them, setting the stage for government steps to do so.
Twenty-one "outposts", most uninhabited, have been removed during Sharon's tenure, but he has not fulfilled his pledge to scrap them all in part because of the powerful pro-settler nationalists in his coalition.
The Housing Ministry is headed by Effi Eitam, leader of the far-right National Religious Party, which considers the West Bank and Gaza to be part of the biblical Jewish homeland.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C59CC887-7013-45F8-80D2-D4851A95DC60.htm
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WHO SETTLE IN THEIR HOMELAND!
The Road Map endorsed by the U.S., U.N. E.U., and Russia calls for a Viable Palestinian State.
Why is Israel being allowed to participate in the above action that will make it harder and harder for that Viable State to be had.
Its hard to believe we went to war with Iraq for WMD we cannot find and to free some 24,000,000 people from Saddam and yet we can do nothing to free some 4,000,000 Palestinians from the atrocities being committed by Israel and we can do nothing about Israel’s WMD.
Freeing the Palestinian People will do more to help end terrorism then going to war will all the Arab Nations.
We wonder why the Palestinian have to fight for their freedom.
The above article says it very well.
Why is Israel being allowed to participate in the above action that will make it harder and harder for that Viable State to be had.
Its hard to believe we went to war with Iraq for WMD we cannot find and to free some 24,000,000 people from Saddam and yet we can do nothing to free some 4,000,000 Palestinians from the atrocities being committed by Israel and we can do nothing about Israel’s WMD.
Freeing the Palestinian People will do more to help end terrorism then going to war will all the Arab Nations.
We wonder why the Palestinian have to fight for their freedom.
The above article says it very well.
The Road Map endorsed by the U.S., U.N. E.U., and Russia calls for a Viable Palestinian State.
Why is Israel being allowed to participate in the above action that will make it harder and harder for that Viable State to be had?
Why have the Palestinians been allowed to abstain from dismantling the Palestinian Terror Infrastructure and putting all their Terrorists in prison since the Road Map was put into practice???
It's hard to believe we went to war with Iraq for WMDs we cannot find and to free some 24,000,000 people from Saddam and yet we can do nothing to free some 5,700,000 Israeli Jews and Arabs from the atrocities being committed by Palestinian terrorists and we can do nothing about Arafat's disdain for Palestinian Lives.
Crushing the Palestinian Terror will do more to help end terrorism than capitulating to terror or going to war will all the Arab Nations .
Then we wonder why the Israelis have to fight to protect their lives and property. their freedom.
The above article sayspart of it.
Why is Israel being allowed to participate in the above action that will make it harder and harder for that Viable State to be had?
Why have the Palestinians been allowed to abstain from dismantling the Palestinian Terror Infrastructure and putting all their Terrorists in prison since the Road Map was put into practice???
It's hard to believe we went to war with Iraq for WMDs we cannot find and to free some 24,000,000 people from Saddam and yet we can do nothing to free some 5,700,000 Israeli Jews and Arabs from the atrocities being committed by Palestinian terrorists and we can do nothing about Arafat's disdain for Palestinian Lives.
Crushing the Palestinian Terror will do more to help end terrorism than capitulating to terror or going to war will all the Arab Nations .
Then we wonder why the Israelis have to fight to protect their lives and property. their freedom.
The above article sayspart of it.
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