Izrael/Likwidacja dziewięciu nielegalnych osad ...

IP: 195.152.54.* 10.06.03, 08:24
"zniszczyli" 2 PUSTE caravans w neve erez, zniszczyli zbiornik
wody w amona north ale zostawili nietkniete okolo 100 caravans
200 metrow dalej.
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        Israel dismantles first settler outposts under peace plan
        By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
        10 June 2003


        The Israeli army yesterday dismantled at least two settler outposts in the West
        Bank, in the first step that Israel has taken to implement the "road-map" peace
        plan backed by the United States.

        Last week, under the gaze of President George Bush at the summit in Aqaba,
        Ariel Sharon the Israeli Prime Minister, promised to evacuate the outposts. In
        response, angry Jewish settlers pledged to take over 10 new hilltops in the
        West Bank for every outpost that is dismantled.

        But the removal of the two outposts shows how little Mr Sharon has pledged to
        do so far. Neve Erez South consisted of just two empty caravans on a hillside
        near the Palestinian city of Ramallah, according to the Israeli pressure group
        Peace Now.

        Armona, near the settlement of Ofra, was a water tower, which the Israeli army
        took down yesterday. Both outposts were uninhabited.

        What Mr Sharon pledged to remove were not established settlements - full-scale
        towns that carve up the West Bank and Gaza Strip where Palestinians want to
        establish their state, which is called for under the "road-map". He promised
        only to remove "unauthorised outposts" such as Neve Erez South and Armona.

        For any peace deal to work, Israel would almost certainly have to remove at
        least some of the established settlements as well. All the settlements are
        illegal under international law because they are built on occupied land. But
        the outposts are illegal under Israeli law as well because they were put up
        without government permission. They are set up by militant Jewish settlers to
        establish "facts on the ground" - a Jewish presence that will make it hard for
        any Palestinian state to be set up in the West Bank.

        Mr Sharon himself urged settlers to "seize the hilltops" and scupper the Oslo
        peace process before he was elected Prime Minister. But now, under pressure
        from Mr Bush, who said last week that the settlements must be "dealt with", the
        Israeli Prime Minister is moving against the settlers. Under the road-map,
        Israel is supposed to dismantle all the outposts put up since Mr Sharon became
        Prime Minister in March 2001.

        According to Israeli media reports, a list of just 15 settler outposts has been
        drawn up to be dismantled in the first phase - far fewer than the 62 that have
        been set up in the past two years, according to Peace Now. The group says there
        are 102 outposts that are illegal under Israeli law, with about 1,000
        inhabitants. However, only four of those scheduled to be dismantled are
        inhabited.

        But settlers, who marched in their thousands in Jerusalem last week to protest
        against Mr Sharon's speech at Aqaba, have reacted furiously. When the Israeli
        army tried to dismantle an outpost last October, under pressure from the
        opposition Labour Party, which was then in a coalition with Mr Sharon, there
        were violent confrontations. Settlers attacked Israeli soldiers who were trying
        to remove the outpost.

        There were no such scenes yesterday. Most settler leaders urged their followers
        not to use violence against soldiers. But the spokesman for the settlers' Yesha
        Council, Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, said: "If we are evacuated, we'll return the night
        after and establish 10 new outposts."

        Adi Mintz, the head of the Yesha Council, said: "We see this as the beginning
        of an attempt to destroy the settlement project." One leader, Pinchas
        Wallerstein, urged settlers to fight the soldiers. "I will recommend that my
        friends do not, in any shape or form, co-operate," he said, adding that he
        recommended "fighting it with full force".

        By angering the settlers, Mr Sharon is upsetting one of his key constituencies.
        But many more Israelis are prepared to give up outposts as well as established
        settlements for peace, according to a poll published yesterday.

        The poll, conducted by Tel Aviv University, found that 59 per cent of Israelis
        were prepared to give up all but the main settlement blocs, and 56 per cent
        would support a unilateral withdrawal from the occupied territories in order to
        cement a peace accord.

        Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu
        Mazen, said at his first press conference that he would stick to the pledge he
        made at Aqaba despite opposition from Palestinian militant groups.

        Three militant groups, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which have
        links to the ruling Fatah party, jointly attacked an Israeli army post and
        killed four soldiers on Sunday in a direct challenge to Abu Mazen's pledge to
        end the "armed intifada".

        But Abu Mazen said yesterday that he would not order a crackdown against the
        militants and urged them to resume talks on a ceasefire.
        • Gość: !!! Re: Guardian IP: 195.152.54.* 10.06.03, 09:05
          Chris McGreal in Amonah, West Bank
          Tuesday June 10, 2003
          The Guardian

          Hundreds of Israeli settlers fanned out across a hillside to block the army
          from tearing down trailer homes at Amonah, stalling Ariel Sharon's pledge to
          dismantle dozens of illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank.
          The soldiers were sent in after the army command failed to persuade settlers to
          voluntarily tear down outposts as part of Mr Sharon's commitment at last week's
          summit with President George Bush and the Palestinian prime minister.

          But it was apparent at Amonah that the troops were half-hearted and the
          settlers forewarned. Loudspeakers in the neighbouring established settlement of
          Ofrah called on residents to climb the hills in defence of Amonah, which is
          home to dozens of settlers. Among them was Rifkah Ben-Meir with her five-year-
          old son in tow.

          "Once they start pulling this down, it'll go on and on until we all have to
          leave," she said. "The people who live here are here to defend Israel. We are
          here for idealistic reasons so we cannot just give up."

          A few hours earlier the military bulldozed two uninhabited shacks on another
          hillside, at Neve Erez.

          Soldiers pulled down a disused water tower on a neighbouring hill at Amonah.
          But the military showed an unusual restraint, that would come as a surprise to
          many Palestinians, when confronted by large numbers of teenagers, mothers with
          babies in their arms and a few dozen well-armed men.

          One American settler was overheard to say that if the army had been serious
          about tearing down the outpost it would have sent "10 times as many soldiers,
          and not these reservists but real riot police".

          Earlier in the day the Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, presented settler
          leaders with a list of 15 outposts the army planned to dismantle, four of them
          inhabited. But a spokesman for the settlers, Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, said they
          refused to cooperate.

          "If we are evacuated we will return the night after and establish 10 new
          outposts," he said.

          Mr Sharon said he would not be diverted from his commitment. "This is the
          policy I have decided on and I will implement it."

          The Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, dismissed the dismantling of a
          few outposts yesterday as largely irrelevant so long as Israel continues to say
          it intends to hold on to established settlements that are home to about 200,000
          Jews living in the West Bank and Gaza.

          "Our position is clear: no settlements on our land within 1967 borders," he
          said.

          Mr Abbas, who is better known as Abu Mazen, was fighting to stave off a barrage
          of accusations that he made too many concessions at the summit in Aqaba to kick-
          start the US-led road map to a Palestinian state.

          The most vocal criticism has come from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aqsa
          Martyrs Brigade, which launched a rare joint attack on Sunday, killing four
          Israeli soldiers at the crossing from Israel into the Gaza strip and another in
          Hebron.

          Hamas said the attacks were a rejection of Mr Abbas's speech at the summit
          because he declared an end to the intifada.

          The Palestinian prime minister yesterday accused Hamas and the other groups of
          playing into Israeli hands by trying to provoke a military confrontation. But
          he said he would not stray from seeking dialogue.

          "The suffering of the Palestinian people is not a subject for propaganda. Our
          suffering needs a solution and not incitement," he said. "For us, there is no
          alternative to dialogue. Dialogue is our choice."

          However, Mr Abbas was evidently less concerned with the threat from Hamas than
          with the political impact of unrest within Fatah and the Palestinian leadership
          at the tone of his statement in Aqaba and the lack of commitment from Israel in
          return.

          There has been criticism of his renunciation of the armed intifada and his
          description of it as terrorism without balancing his comments by justifying
          resistance to occupation.

          "The Israelis really wanted the word 'terrorism' in the statement. Abu Mazen
          could have used 'killing of civilians', but the Americans pressed him," said
          one PLO official.

          "The problem is that in the next breath he calls for an end to the armed
          intifada. It sounded as though he was delegitimising the intifada, comparing it
          to terrorism rather than exerting the Palestinians' legal right to resist a
          very brutal occupation.

          "There are senior people in Fatah who are very unhappy about this. It's Oslo
          all over again. We jump through the hoops like trained circus animals while the
          Israelis wheedle out of their commitments."
        • Gość: michal_pilot glupie palestynczyki ... IP: *.rev.o1.com 10.06.03, 09:09
          nie zal mi glupich ludzi
          • Gość: !!! Re: nytimes IP: 195.152.54.* 10.06.03, 09:12
            In Israeli Gesture, a Tower Is Removed Near a Settlement
            By IAN FISHER
            Israeli soldiers began tearing down the first of 14 "unauthorized outposts"
            that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to destroy as part of the road map
            czy ktos moze mi powiedziec co znaczy "" w tym przypadku
            • Gość: !!! Re: daily telegraph IP: 195.152.54.* 10.06.03, 09:17
              Israel begins to remove settlements
              By Alan Philps in Jerusalem
              (Filed: 10/06/2003)


              The Israeli army began dismantling wildcat settler outposts on the West Bank
              yesterday, meeting one condition of the 'road map' peace plan but prompting
              howls of protest from the Right.

              The army gave settler leaders a list of 15 illegal outposts which are to be
              evacuated and asked for their co-operation. But they promised to oppose the
              removals by all means short of violence.


              Israeli settlers resist all moves to remove them from their homes
              Troops began with a soft target - an outpost called Neve Erez South, which
              consists of a couple of uninhabited caravans on a hill east of the Palestinian
              town of Ramallah. The two caravans were crushed by bulldozers without
              opposition.

              News of the start of the operation sparked an alert in the settlement of Ofra,
              one of the oldest on the West Bank, where loudspeakers called on residents to
              go to a nearby hill to defend an outpost.

              Hundreds of settlers, some of them armed, headed for the hill, but it was
              unclear whether the army intended to move against it.

              >>>Of the 15 outposts listed for destruction only four are inhabited, the rest
              being markers for future settlement.<<<<

              Adi Mintz, head of the Yesha council, which represents 200,000 settlers in the
              West Bank and Gaza Strip, said: "We see this as the beginning of an attempt to
              destroy the settlement project in Judea and Samaria" - the terms used by
              settlers for the West Bank.

              At the weekend, Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, who has championed
              the settlers' cause for decades, was booed by the far Right at a meeting of his
              Likud party when he reminded them that he had always promised to make "painful
              concessions" for peace.

              This first step, however, is largely symbolic, involving the removal of only a
              handful of residents.

              If the new peace plan endorsed at a United States-Israeli-Palestinian summit
              last week is implemented, Mr Sharon will have to remove some long-established
              settlements in order to make good his promise to provide the Palestinians with
              a state.

              But Tsahi Hanegbi, the public security minister and a senior member of Likud,
              said yesterday that he did not envisage any established settlements being
              evacuated over the next four years.

              Predictions that the "road map" will fail have gathered strength since the
              major Palestinian armed factions rejected outright the call for a ceasefire
              made by the new prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Abbas is looking increasingly
              isolated and impotent in Palestinian society.

              At a news conference yesterday he could offer no magic solution to the revolt
              of the militant groups. He said he would never outlaw them, but could not force
              them into talking to him. "The only alternative to dialogue is dialogue," he
              said.

              But patience with Mr Abbas was running out yesterday.

              In Washington, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said that the militant
              groups the Palestinian leadership was failing to control were "enemies to
              peace".

              "These enemies not only take the lives of Israelis, they are a threat to the
              creation of a Palestinian state," he said.

              Leaders of Hamas, the powerful Islamic Resistance Movement, rejected his call
              for new talks, saying Mr Abbas had offered nothing new
              • Gość: !!! Re: haaretz daily IP: 195.152.54.* 10.06.03, 09:30
                Hundreds block IDF path to Gilad Farm outpost

                By Nadav Shragai and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and
                Agencies

                After IDF troops the first 10 of an initial 15
                illegal West Bank settlement outposts, hundreds of
                settlers blocked the army's path to the flashpoint
                Gilad Farm, one of four populated outposts that
                had been slated for removal Tuesday along with one
                unpopulated site.

                The Supreme Court issued a
                temporary restraining order
                forbidding the state from
                demolishing Gilad Farm. The
                petition, to which the
                government must submit a
                response by 2 P.M., presents
                documents in a bid to prove
                that members of Zar family, who
                live at the site, legally own
                the land and live their under official
                authorization.

                >>>>The 10 outposts levelled on Monday night and
                Tuesday were all unpopulated. Five inhabited
                outposts were to have been cleared Tuesday: Beit
                El Mizrach, Nofei Nehemia, "693," next to
                Yitzhar, Sh'vei Shomron to the west, and Gilad
                Farm - which has been evacuated four times in the
                past, most recently in October 2002, when it was
                the site of violent clashes between settlers and
                evacuating forces.

                Hundreds of rightists, many of them yeshiva
                students from Jerusalem, converged on Beit El
                Mizrach Tuesday morning in an effort to prevent
                soldiers from evacuating the site.

                The IDF evacuation effort, dubbed Operation Naked
                Hilltop, could last for several days. Military
                sources said that the army intends to remove a
                total of 94 outposts in the near future.

                On Monday and overnight, evacuations had proceded
                without any major incidents, but hundreds of
                settlers - including many children - came to the
                West Bank outpost of Amona, northeast of
                Ramallah, and attempted to prevent the movement
                of military forces and formed a human blockade to
                prevent IDF trucks from moving.

                Settler leaders have expressed severe opposition
                to the evacuation, and the National Religious
                Party and National Union have called an
                additional massive evacuation of inhabited
                outposts a "red line" that would compel them to
                leave the government.

                The Yesha Council, which represents settlers in
                the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said Monday night
                that five outposts will go up for every one
                removed. The Yesha rabbinical council called on
                the public to flock to outposts scheduled for
                evacuation to protest the move, and called on
                security forces to reconsider the morality of the
                directives they received. They fell short of
                telling soldiers to disobey army orders to
                evacuate outposts.

                The West Bank outposts where troops removed
                several empty trailers and other structures
                included South Neveh Erez, east of Ramallah;
                Shaharit, which is located next to the Ariel
                settlement; and Neve Menachem, next to Karnei
                Shomron. A guard tower was also removed from
                North Amona, next to the settlement of Ofra,
                northeast of Ramallah.

                The move was hailed by Washington. But Palestinian
                officials greeted it with derision. "This is a
                theatrical and insignificant step," said Nabil
                Abu Rdainah, a top aide to Palestinian Authority
                Chairman Yasser Arafat.

                Industry and Trade Minister Ehud Olmert (Likud)
                told Army Radio on Tuesday that he didn't
                understand what all the fuss was about.

                Those who object to the evacuations "are becoming
                excessively hysterical," he said. "We're talking
                about places that are mostly unpopulated, so
                what's all this drama?"

                The army said that many valuable lessons were
                learned from such evacuation operations in the
                past, and that this time the IDF is dismantling
                several outposts simultaneously in different
                areas, in order to prevent thousands of settlers
                from gathering at every site to be cleared.

                "We will do everything we can to torpedo,
                obstruct, and to prolong this step," said Yesha
                Council spokesman Yehoshua Mor-Yosef on Monday.
                He said the prime minister was "cynically and
                manipulatively" exploiting settlers in an effort
                to place them in conflict with the IDF.


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