Settlement leaders painted a picture of widespread state complicity in setting up unauthorized West Bank outposts, contradicting Israel's repeated claim that it is trying to dismantle dozens of outposts in line with an internationally backed peace plan...
The settlement outposts dotting the West Bank are seen as seeds of larger communities, in violation of assurances by successive Israeli governments that they would not build new settlements. Locations were often chosen to break up contiguity of Palestinian areas and prevent the establishment of a future Palestinian state.
Zvi Hendel, a settler leader, said Tuesday that various government ministries and agencies have cooperated over the years in setting up outposts. He told Israel Radio that the Israeli military administration in the West Bank provided the lands, the Housing Ministry bought mobile homes, Defense Ministry officials gave permits for trailers to be moved from place to place, (and) the army provided security for the setters...
Hendel, a legislator, said the support for the outposts extended to the highest levels of government. Outposts began springing up in 1993, as a protest against an interim peace deal with the Palestinians.
"All the defense ministers ... were part of the secret," he said. "You can't do it without the defense minister, you can't move mobile homes, you can't move a nail in the West Bank without the army's agreement. So let's not fool ourselves. This is what the state of Israel wanted. We carried out its mission."
If Hendel's statements are true, then it proves what I think has been rather obvious since Sharon first proposed the Gaza withdrawal, that the withdrawal is a smokescreen for Israel's strengthening it's hold in the Palestinian West Bank.
The irony here is that the more land Israel takes, the less likely an economically viable, geographically continguous Palestinian state becomes, and thus eventually a two-state solution will no longer be an option. At that time, Israel will be faced with the choice of whether to become an actual, declared apartheid state (instead of a de facto apartheid state, which it currently is) in order to preserve Jewish political supremacy, or to grant full citizenship to Palestinians, who will then make up a substantial majority.
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