Israel has been hiding settlements data

[Каие]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7861076.stm

The Israeli defence ministry has concealed information about the extent of illegal settlement-building in the West Bank, a leading newspaper reports.

A classified database of construction compiled by the ministry was leaked to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
It suggests most construction took place without the right permits, and more than 30 settlements were built in part on land owned by Palestinians. Settlements are a contentious issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The defence ministry has not commented on the report, which appears to contradict Israel's official position that it does not requisition private land for settlements. The internationally-backed "road map" peace plan also calls on Israel to halt all settlement activity.

Publication 'blocked'

The database - compiled over about two years - was leaked to Haaretz by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din. It focuses not only on some 100 unauthorised settler outposts, but also on about 120 settlements officially authorised since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. An analysis of the data shows a big majority - about 75% - of construction in settlements was carried out without the right permit or in contravention of permits issued, Haaretz reported. In more than 30 settlements, buildings including schools, synagogues and police stations, had been built on private Palestinian land.

The newspaper said Defence Minister Ehud Barak blocked publication of the data, arguing it could endanger state security or harm Israel's foreign relations. Yesh Din told the BBC the report showed that the Israeli government ignored its own distinction between settlements considered legal under Israeli law, and illegal outposts built on privately owned land. The group said it would use the information to help Palestinians sue Israel for damages.

Mitchell visit

The Haaretz article comes in the same week as the visit of the new US envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell.
In 2001 he released a report which called on Israel to freeze settlement building. Earlier this week Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted in another newspaper as saying he had offered in talks with the Palestinians to remove 60,000 settlers from the West Bank. Haaretz says the right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed not to be tied to any pledges to withdraw settlers.

I will accept all apologies owed.

It shows that the overwhelming majority of the settlements are illegal, even by Israeli law.
The Israelis made no distinction between illegal and legal settlements.
It shows that as many as 30 settlements are built upon privately owned Palestinian land.
They actively hid this information so as to not to damage Israel's foreign relations or endanger state secuirity.


So much is being made out of us not being able to trust the Palestinians, but can we trust the Israelis? Who promise, even the USA demands the settlement activity ends, the Israelis promise an end to the USA, yet they continue. Then conceal all evidence, lying about everything.

[Treize]

Apologies for what??

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Seems like the Jews want to get rid of the Palastinians:hmmm:

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Dahhh We didn't knew that!!

Offcourse you can't get the religious indoctrination out of people.

[Каие]

Apologies for being called a liar all this time for claiming the settlements were illegal, and were being built on stolen Palestinian land.

[Heinz Guderian]

Wow, that's a lot of stolen land.

Israel seems to be a rather ungentlemanly nation.

I <3 yesh din. Nice jewish boys. Well brought up.

[Treize]

Well I don't owe you, but I agree.

[Dr. Croccer]

1..2..3..Till Israel fanboys march in, proclaiming that the Israelis rightfully own that land because of the Yom Kippur War or whatever.

[Treize]

No No, you are seeing this wrong, GOD Himself gave it to them...
You can't deny GOD!!!

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[Nole4694]

Geez, isrealies are taking advantage of the support of the US and other nations and thier 'right to the land'. i mean come on this is just out right STUPID they already get away with lots of bending the law ;but just outright defying it,and their allies, thinking they could keep it secret well... idiots

[Dr. Croccer]

No No, you are seeing this wrong, GOD Himself gave it to them...
You can't deny GOD!!!

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God and a few hundred thousand Zionist militants to seal the deal.

[Haramzadeh]

The Jewish Settler and the Suicide Bomber are almost the perfect personifications of everything wrong with semitic religions. A pox on all their houses.

[jankren]

Good. Another evidence why Israel need to be wiped off the map now.

[Каие]

Good. Another evidence why Israel need to be wiped off the map now.

Dude... no.

[Haramzadeh]

Good. Another evidence why Israel need to be wiped off the map now.

Interesting.

[Treize]

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[Central Asian Qaghan]

I agree with jankren. They want a homeland, carve out Germany the guys who really killed and holocosted the Jews. The Arab's weren't the ones putting them in camps. Take it out of the Pope's land for all I care.

[Haramzadeh]

carve out Germany the guys who really killed and holocosted the Jews. The Arab's weren't the ones putting them in camps. Take it out of the Pope's land for all I care.

Very true. It is the Germans and Euros that deserve death for the crimes of antisemitism - not Palestinians.

[Draco Borealis]

I agree with jankren. They want a homeland, carve out Germany the guys who really killed and holocosted the Jews. The Arab's weren't the ones putting them in camps. Take it out of the Pope's land for all I care.

Is this means that Turks will give back the Northern Cyprus; Smyrna and Trebizond? You Know those Lands the Turks ilegaly took from Greeks and ocupy to this day? Will they go back to central Asia; Turkmenistan or What not?
What about Hitler Friend and known nazi Mohammad Amin al-Husayni who just happend to be the Palestinian leader and mentor of Arafat?

[Yosemite]

Is this means that Turks will give back the Northern Cyprus; Smyrna and Trebizond? You Know those Lands the Turks ilegaly took from Greeks and ocupy to this day? Will they go back to central Asia; Turkmenistan or What not?
What about Hitler Friend and known nazi Mohammad Amin al-Husayni who just happend to be the Palestinian leader and mentor of Arafat?

how about not generalizing

how about ottomen who lived on these lands thanks to the ottomen invasion

how about you give me back my land where my great, great, great, great, great grand father owned lands and a huge castle

[Central Asian Qaghan]

Is this means that Turks will give back the Northern Cyprus; Smyrna and Trebizond? You Know those Lands the Turks ilegaly took from Greeks and ocupy to this day? Will they go back to central Asia; Turkmenistan or What not?
What about Hitler Friend and known nazi Mohammad Amin al-Husayni who just happend to be the Palestinian leader and mentor of Arafat?

Why you asking me? I'm not a Turk.

[Treize]

Is this means that Turks will give back the Northern Cyprus; Smyrna and Trebizond? You Know those Lands the Turks ilegaly took from Greeks and ocupy to this day? Will they go back to central Asia; Turkmenistan or What not?
What about Hitler Friend and known nazi Mohammad Amin al-Husayni who just happend to be the Palestinian leader and mentor of Arafat?

He's muslim and not arian so he can't be a real nazi..