Israel plans to legalize 13 contentious West Bank outposts

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The government has announced that it plans to legalize 13 of the 18 settlement outposts against which petitions to the High Court of Justice have been filed.

Because the 13 outposts are not built on privately-owned Palestinian land, the legalization process could presumably make the petitions against them moot.

The remaining five outposts cannot be legalized, because they are located on privately-owned Palestinian land, and so are slated for evacuation...

source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...posts-1.434883

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Threats from the right concerning the evacuation of five outposts. Whatever happens, I do not want to see Jews fighting Jews.

‘Destroy Ulpana, and we will all long for Amona,” MK Arieh Eldad (National Union) said on Tuesday night, at a small rally in support of outpost legislation.

“Then you will see how the public acts against a decree that it cannot tolerate,” he said.

His words were both dramatic and threatening.

They brought back visions of right-wing activists defending nine homes on the edge of the Amona outpost in 2006, as border police on horses and others in riot gear with batons dragged them away.

The violence that occurred on that winter day still reverberates in an Israeli psyche eternally fearful that the nation’s deep division over the West Bank and the settlements will end in bloodshed...

source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=273129