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Israel agrees to settlement expansion in exchange for clearing outposts
By The Associated Press
Tags: West bank, Israel 

Israel has agreed to let settlers build new houses in existing West Bank settlements in exchange for dismantling unauthorized settlement outposts, residents and defense officials said Tuesday.

Palestinians criticized the Israeli action, saying it went against a
U.S.-sponsored effort to work out a peace deal by the end of the year. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank as part of their future state, and are demanding an end to all settlement construction as well as the dismantling of outposts.
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The deal is meant to avoid violent evacuations of the unauthorized outposts, as occurred at the Amona outpost in 2006.

On Monday, settlers moved three mobile homes from an oupost into the nearby Mevo Horon settlement, west of Jerusalem. Defense officials confirmed on Tuesday that settlers would receive permits to build permanent housing in Mevo Horon and other areas.

Settlers and defense officials would not say how many houses would be built as part of the agreement.

Settlers have put up more than 100 outposts since the 1990s in an effort to expand Jewish presence in the West Bank. Under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan, which is serving as the basis for the latest round of talks, Israel has promised to take down 26.

The road map also requires Israel to halt all settlement construction and
obliges the Palestinians to rein in militants.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called the Defense Ministry deal with the settlers a flagrant violation of the road map.

"That's what they do best, negotiating between themselves and making peace between themselves and the result is a dictate on us," Erekat said.

The U.S. is monitoring each side's compliance with obligations undertaken in the road map, and on Tuesday, consular officials visited the site of the dismantled outpost near Mevo Horon, said consulate spokesman Micaela
Schweitzer-Bluhm. She would not say whether the U.S. considered the Defense Ministry's deal with the settlers to be in compliance with road map obligations.
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  1.   It`s all illegal squatting 14:07  |  Clickfool 15/04/08
  2.   Israel agree etc. 14:08  |  mary 15/04/08
  3.   "Fair trade-off" Israeli style 14:10  |  Chanalau, Tova 15/04/08
  4.   Iran can help remove the illegal settlers from the west bank 14:22  |  Aounist 15/04/08
  5.   Appeasing the SQUATTERS of Israel, and the Jewish Religion 14:31  |  *BEN JABO 15/04/08
  6.   Replacing crime by crime 15:34  |  Jan Elshout 15/04/08
  7.   land theft 15:39  |  John 15/04/08
  8.   But Israel is not apartheid 15:42  |  Dave Duncan 15/04/08
  9.   Israel agrees to more settlement construction after outposts evac 16:36  |  Esther 15/04/08
  10.   A Sham For All To See 16:54  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/04/08
  11.   # 1 Clicky...such a hardliner you are 17:28  |  Lynn 15/04/08
  12.   A reality that doesn`t sink in 18:06  |  peter 15/04/08
  13.   #11 lynn 18:12  |  abraham 15/04/08
  14.   to Yaacov Sullivan 18:20  |  Harry 15/04/08
  15.   #10 Sully - are you not man enough to answer? 18:39  |  smarter then sully 15/04/08
  16.   #10 will you return ALL Jewish holy sites? Or NOT? 18:41  |  smarter then sully 15/04/08
  17.   # 13 abraham of Kuwait...of course they would 19:03  |  Lynn 15/04/08
  18.   Abbas should start negotiating with Settlers, not Olmert. 19:18  |  El-Birawi 15/04/08
  19.   #11 its hard to steal what was urs to begin with 19:21  |  smarter then sully 15/04/08
  20.   #11 Lynn 19:23  |  Boycott 15/04/08
  21.   #20-eurotrash doing the occupation shuffle 19:52  |  peter 15/04/08
  22.   Palestinians need Lebensraum 20:47  |  Eskimo 15/04/08
  23.   To Aounist # 4 20:49  |  Fortuna Benmayor 15/04/08
  24.   #21 Peter 21:41  |  Shroompicker 15/04/08
  25.   Illegal outposts 22:02  |  Rudy 15/04/08
  26.   # 20 Boycott...I do believe there are some 22:17  |  Lynn 15/04/08
  27.   Lynn... 22:35  |  Silvienne 15/04/08
  28.   It`s nothing for nothing again, just as we expected... 22:38  |  Silvienne 15/04/08
  29.   #21, Peter...interesting.... 00:08  |  Silvienne 16/04/08
  30.   #19, smarter than sully...(daft name)... 00:10  |  Silvienne 16/04/08
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