| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes |
| US taxpayers are paying out BILLIONS (see the link at www.wrmea.com ) for the following to take place as such is why the USA (World Trade Center) was attacked in 1993 and then again on September 11th, 2001 (9/11) as conveyed by esteemed intelligence author James Bamford on pages 100-101 and pages 138-144 and in the 'Imperial Hubris' book (look up 'Israel' in the index) by former CIA agent ('Anonymous') and on page 147 of the 9/11 Commission Report (book) as well:
Subject: Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes
Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes --Report
Friday, Feb 25, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to build more than 6,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank this year, a sharp boost in its construction in the occupied territory, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
The reported settlement expansion project by the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), a government agency, would coincide with Israel's plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) this summer and defy U.S. calls for a freeze in "settlement activity."
The U.S.-backed road map requires a halt to settlement building on land Israel captured in 1967 and where Palestinians want statehood. Palestinians are worried that Israel wants to quit Gaza only to annex areas around more populous West Bank settlement blocs.
The international community regards settlements as illegal under international law. Israel disputes this.
The Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported the ILA's working plan for 2005 calls for 6,391 homes to be built in existing West Bank settlements. The newspaper said Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had given the go-ahead for the marketing of the housing projects.
In addition, the report said, the government planned to "legitimise" 120 unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank which it has promised the United States to dismantle.
An ILA spokeswoman could not be reached and a Defense Ministry spokesman declined immediate comment.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat urged President Bush (news - web sites) to press Israel "to make sure such a plan is not implemented and that his call for a freeze in all settlement activity is implemented."
Israel has said it will continue to build in existing settlements to accommodate what it calls the natural growth of their populations.
Some 225,000 Israelis live in 120 settlements in the West Bank and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) has pledged to hold on to major settlement blocs in the territory in any permanent peace accord with the Palestinians.
Yedioth Ahronoth said a third of the new Israeli homes planned this year in the West Bank would be built just outside Jerusalem in Maaleh Adumim, Israel's largest settlement, which has a population of 30,000.
According to the ILA's Web site, the agency marketed 1,783 new housing units in the West Bank in 2004 and 1,225 in 2003.
(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050225/wl_nm/mideast_settlements_dc | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: Israel to Build More Homes on West Bank |
| Israel to Build More Homes on West Bank
By Tim Butcher
The Telegraph U.K.
Saturday 26 February 2005
Palestine has accused Israel of breaching the ‘road map’ to peace.
(Photo: Reuters)
The Israeli government was forced yesterday to admit that it plans to build more homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank - less than a week after confirming it will withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Although the scale of the new building programme was disputed by government spokesmen, they admitted that a number of new homes would be built and settlements extended.
Any construction is in clear breach of the "road map" to peace, supported by America and the European Union, which calls for a freeze on all settlement activity on Palestinian land occupied by Israel since the 1967 war.
It also shatters any impression that the Gaza withdrawal, due to start in July, proves that the government of the prime minister Ariel Sharon accepts the principle of an independent Palestinian state roughly consistent with the 1967 borders.
It is likely to aid Left-wing critics of Mr. Sharon, who accuse him of using the withdrawal from Gaza as a smokescreen to conceal a land grab in the West Bank.
The latest revelations came in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which reported it had seen plans for 6,391 new homes in the West Bank this year.
Such housing development needs the approval of the defence ministry, as soldiers are needed to protect Jewish homes on occupied Palestinian land, and the office of the defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, issued a statement admitting building permits for a "limited number of housing units" had been granted.
The revelation was condemned by the Palestinians, with their negotiator with Israel, Saeb Erekat, accusing Israel of breaching the "road map".
Speaking this week in Brussels, President George W Bush said that Israel "must freeze settlement activity". | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes |
| LA Times: US support of Israel motivated tragic 9/11 Attack..
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| Alpha wrote: | US taxpayers are paying out BILLIONS (see the link at www.wrmea.com ) for the following to take place as such is why the USA (World Trade Center) was attacked in 1993 and then again on September 11th, 2001 (9/11) as conveyed by esteemed intelligence author James Bamford on pages 100-101 and pages 138-144 and in the 'Imperial Hubris' book (look up 'Israel' in the index) by former CIA agent ('Anonymous') and on page 147 of the 9/11 Commission Report (book) as well:
Subject: Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes
Israel Plans 6,000 W. Bank Settlement Homes --Report
Friday, Feb 25, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to build more than 6,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank this year, a sharp boost in its construction in the occupied territory, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
The reported settlement expansion project by the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), a government agency, would coincide with Israel's plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) this summer and defy U.S. calls for a freeze in "settlement activity."
The U.S.-backed road map requires a halt to settlement building on land Israel captured in 1967 and where Palestinians want statehood. Palestinians are worried that Israel wants to quit Gaza only to annex areas around more populous West Bank settlement blocs.
The international community regards settlements as illegal under international law. Israel disputes this.
The Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported the ILA's working plan for 2005 calls for 6,391 homes to be built in existing West Bank settlements. The newspaper said Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had given the go-ahead for the marketing of the housing projects.
In addition, the report said, the government planned to "legitimise" 120 unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank which it has promised the United States to dismantle.
An ILA spokeswoman could not be reached and a Defense Ministry spokesman declined immediate comment.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat urged President Bush (news - web sites) to press Israel "to make sure such a plan is not implemented and that his call for a freeze in all settlement activity is implemented."
Israel has said it will continue to build in existing settlements to accommodate what it calls the natural growth of their populations.
Some 225,000 Israelis live in 120 settlements in the West Bank and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) has pledged to hold on to major settlement blocs in the territory in any permanent peace accord with the Palestinians.
Yedioth Ahronoth said a third of the new Israeli homes planned this year in the West Bank would be built just outside Jerusalem in Maaleh Adumim, Israel's largest settlement, which has a population of 30,000.
According to the ILA's Web site, the agency marketed 1,783 new housing units in the West Bank in 2004 and 1,225 in 2003.
(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza)
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