Clearing Palestinian protesters from West Bank site, Netanyahu pledges to build settlement

[Purveyor]

By Joel Greenberg, Sunday, January 13, 1:57 PM

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Sunday to follow through with plans for settlement construction in a key West Bank area known as E-1 after police evicted scores of Palestinian protesters who had set up a tent camp there.

“We will complete the planning, and there will be construction,” Netanyahu told Army Radio hours after the eviction, but he cautioned that the planning process for the new development “will take time.”

Netanyahu, who is in the home stretch of an election campaign, moved swiftly against the Palestinian encampment, a new form of grass-roots protest modeled after scores of wildcat outposts set up by Jewish settlers on West Bank hills without government approval.

While many of those outposts remain in place, Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of the Palestinian camp — a cluster of about 20 tents that protesters called the village of “Bab al-Shams,” or Gate of the Sun — a day after it went up Friday.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Why isn't the Israeli government been brought up on human rights crimes

at the world court? Perhaps these continued violations of Palestinian land should be considered war crimes since the Israelis are intent on driving off the Palestinian population.

Yes, yes, they haven't said that, but know them by their works.

One does not mean they want peace while they continue an all out assault on a population by taking their land.

[delrem]

2. US veto. nt

[Scootaloo]

3. Palestinians living on Palestinian land is illegal.

Israel in a nutshell.