- 9 dec 2011
Jordan warns Israel over Al-Aqsa ramp closure
The Mughrabi ramp leading from the plaza by the Western Wall to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem.
AMMAN (AFP) -- Jordan, the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, warned Israel on Friday against closing a wooden access ramp to the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City.
"Jordan rejects any Israeli attempt to affect Jerusalem's holy sites, identity and heritage, including Al-Mughrabi Gate" that leads to the compound's Al-Buraq Wall, known to Jews as the Western Wall, Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said.
The kingdom, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, "is in daily contact with the Israeli side to make sure it does not change the status quo of the gate," Judeh told the government-owned Al-Rai Arabic daily.
Jerusalem's city council on Thursday ordered the closure of the access ramp, saying it poses both a fire hazard and is at risk of collapse.
But Muslim leaders fear work on it could have a destabilizing effect, accusing Israel of failing to coordinate renovation plans with the Waqf, the Islamic organization that has jurisdiction over Muslim parts of the site.
Jordan's powerful Islamists have condemned the city council's decision.
"Israel is disregarding all Arab and international warnings," said Hamzeh Mansur, head of the opposition Islamic Action Front party, accusing Israel of pursuing a "policy of Judaising the Holy Land."
Last month, Amman warned that any Israeli "threats and aggressions" against the holy site would lead to "endless" violence in the Middle East.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=443539
Rights group: Land swap agreements 'illegal'
Laborers work at a construction site of new housing units in Givat Zeev Israeli settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian agreements to swap land with Israel as part of a peace deal are illegal under the law governing occupation, rights group said Al-Haq said Thursday.
A recent proposal by Palestinian officials to Mideast Quartet diplomats on the borders of a future state could endanger Palestinian rights and be legally invalid, a new report by the Ramallah-based legal organization says.
The November PLO offer proposed swapping 1.9 percent of West Bank land with Israel, the Tel-Aviv based daily Haaretz reported.
"Rather than facilitate the exercise of self-determination and Palestinian sovereignty over their natural resources, ‘land swap’ agreements concluded under occupation will result in further fragmentation of Palestinian society and will effectively constitute official sanctioning of the dispossession of Palestinian land," Director of Al-Haq Shawan Jabarin said Thursday.
"The Fourth Geneva Convention protects the interests of the occupied population and clearly states that any agreements that undermine their rights are prohibited as they are borne of a clear imbalance of power between the two parties involved."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=443480 12 dec 2011, 00:27 , Respect -
Maria 11 dec 2011
Official Condemns Hazardous Israeli Factories near Tulkarm
TULKARM, (WAFA) –Mayor of Tulkarm, Talal Dweikat, Sunday condemned in a statement the ongoing work in the Israeli factories constructed on Palestinian property to the west of Tulkarm, which puts the Palestinian environment, water, agriculture and human life at hazard.
Commenting on the great arson that engulfed a plastic factory on Friday in the Israeli industrial zone near Tulkarm, Dweikat said that Israel established most of its dangerous industrial factories in the West Bank after settlers refused to construct them inside Israel, said the statement.
The factories continue to spread and dispose internationally-forbidden toxic effluents into Palestinian land around the year, in complete disregard of international laws, which causes cancer, asthma, and pneumonia due to inhalation of contaminated air or digestion of crops planted around the factories, as proven in various medical tests, added the mayor.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) repeatedly demanded the Israeli government through international parties and the media to stop this “environmental war” against the Palestinians and to move the factories to Israel, and warned that the factories lack proper safety regulations and measures, said Dweikat.
He noted that the Israeli environmental and health authorities are not concerned with the safety regulations of these factories, particularly because they are established on Palestinian land occupied in 1967 and they employ Palestinian workers who undertake unfair working conditions and minimum wages.
Israeli officials did not take any measure to insure the safety of the factories, even after several factories were previously burnt, which caused major health and environmental damage, because they care only for the financial benefits of the factories, and the fact that it harms Palestinian people and land, he added.
Dweikat called to close the Israeli factories, and stressed that the issue will be tackled internationally, which will hold humanitarian, environmental, and health institutions responsible for the health of the Palestinians facing death and illness by the Israeli environmental war and chemical factories.
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General strike in all 1948 occupied lands in support of Negev people
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The high follow-up Committee for Arab citizens called for a general strike on Sunday in all parts of the 1948 occupied lands in support of the Negev region and its people.
The committee said it would organize many events in protest of the Israeli ethnic-cleansing plan to appropriate about 800 dunums of Palestinian land from their rightful owners that would led to the destruction of Negev villages and the displacement of about 30, 000 Palestinians from their homes and communities.
The committee also called for participating actively in the protest to be held Sunday morning outside the headquarters of the Israeli government in occupied Jerusalem, and noted it would provide dozens of buses to transport thousands of protesters to this place.
"Our people in the Negev, their children, women and elders are suffering under the yoke of the largest eliminatory scheme having targeted the Arabs since the 1948 nakba; it is a plot threatening their existence," the committee stated in a press release.
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Maria 12 dec 2011
Israeli court orders demolition of Umm Hayran village in Negev
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- An Israeli court on Sunday re-issued a decision to demolish the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Hayran in the Negev desert area.
Adalah center, a group defending the rights of the Arab minority in the 1948 occupied lands, said an Israeli court issued demolition orders against all the 33 homes of Umm Hayran village, which the Israeli occupation government does not recognize it.
The center noted that the occupation government wants to raze the village in order to establish a Jewish settlement in its place.
Adalah center had filed in 2006 a petition on behalf of Umm Hayran villagers against court demolition orders.
Lawyer for the center Suhad Bishara said the court ignored the history of Umm Hayran and their forced migration to the area at the behest of the military governor in 1956 after they had been forced out of their native village.
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Israel closes Al-Aqsa compound footbridge
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Israel on Monday closed a footbridge at Jerusalem's holiest and most volatile religious site after deeming the structure unsafe.
The wooden ramp was erected as a stopgap after a snowstorm and earthquake in 2004 damaged a stone bridge leading up from the Western Wall to the sacred compound where the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine stand.
The footbridge was to have been torn down last month but Netanyahu postponed the demolition on the advice of Israeli diplomats and security officials, government officials said.
A police spokesman said the bridge was closed after Jerusalem's city engineer declared it unsafe. It had been used mainly by tourists. Muslim worshipers use other entrances to the holy compound.
Israeli media reports said Israel would consult with the king of Jordan, the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, on the future of the bridge.
The city's senior Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the mufti of Jerusalem, said Islamic religious authorities opposed demolition of the existing structure and construction of a new one.
The holy compound is in the old walled city of Jerusalem, which Israel captured along with the West Bank in a 1967 war and annexed in a step not recognized by the international community.
For Muslims the Dome of the Rock marks the spot from which Mohammad made his night journey to heaven. The compound is the third holiest site in Islam.
Jews revere the compound as the site of their Biblical Temple. Surviving foundations of its Western Wall are now a focus of prayer.
Any construction or interference at the site can be politically explosive.
On September 28, 2000, Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound surrounded by a 1,000-strong security force. The move is widely believed to have contributed to the beginning of the Second Intifada, or uprising, against Israeli military occupation.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444330
Israel demolishes East Jerusalem home
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities demolished a home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Monday.
Witnesses told Ma'an that the home belonged to Nidal al-Razim, whose brother was freed as part of the October prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
Israeli forces raided the neighborhood on Monday morning and surrounded al-Razim's home. Authorities claim that the house was built without a license and witnesses said it was demolished before allowing the family to gather their belongings.
ICAHD, a prominent Israeli non-governmental organization, said in October that Israel was forcing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem as part of a deliberate policy that might constitute a war crime.
There are some 300,000 Palestinians residents in East Jerusalem, representing about 35 percent of the city's total population, but ICAHD said that since Israel took control of Palestinian areas it had systematically prevented their development.
ICAHD said it was virtually impossible for Palestinians to obtain building permits to house their growing families.
Israel seized East Jerusalem, including the Old City, in a 1967 war. It later illegally annexed the area and surrounding West Bank villages into a Jerusalem municipality that it declared the united and eternal capital of Israel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444298 13 dec 2011, 14:29 , Respect -
Maria 13 dec 2011
Record number of Palestinians displaced in 2011
Palestinian youths hurl stones toward an Israeli watchtower during a demonstration against the Israeli closure near Rachel's Tomb.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities have displaced a record number of Palestinian families in the West Bank including East Jerusalem this year, a coalition of rights groups said Tuesday.
Some 20 leading aid agencies and human rights groups released a joint statement condemning the violations as the Mideast Quartet prepares to meet in Jerusalem.
"The increasing rate of settlement expansion and house demolitions is pushing Palestinians to the brink, destroying their livelihoods and prospects for a just and durable peace," executive director of Oxfam International Jeremy Hobbs said.
"There is a growing disconnect between the Quartet talks and the situation on the ground. The Quartet needs to radically revise its approach and show that it can make a real difference to the lives of Palestinians and Israelis," he added.
The increase in house demolitions in 2011 has been accompanied by the expansion of illegal settlements and a sharp increase in settler violence.
Since the beginning of 2011, more than 500 homes, wells and other structures have been destroyed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing over 1,000 Palestinians, UN figures show.
This is twice as many people over the same time period last year and the highest figure since 2005. Half of those displaced are children.
Around 4,000 housing units have been approved in East Jerusalem over the past year, the highest number since 2006, the Israeli organization Peace Now said.
Settler attacks against Palestinians have increased by over 50 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, and by 160 percent since 2009, UN reports show.
Meanwhile, over 10,000 olive and other trees have been destroyed this year.
"The Quartet should call ongoing settlement expansion and house demolitions what they are: violations of international humanitarian law that Israel should stop," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
Phillip Luther, regional director for Amnesty International, said the figures show the Quartet's approach has failed.
"Israel’s escalating violations show the fundamental failure of the Quartet’s approach. It’s time for the Quartet to understand that they cannot contribute to achieving a just and durable solution to the conflict without first ensuring respect for international law."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444655
Israeli forces demolish old buildings near Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished on Tuesday morning three old buildings on the outskirts of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, known as Wadi al-Makhrour, after claiming they were built on Israeli land.
The mayor of Beit Jala, Raji Zeidan, said the buildings were recently refurbished. The buildings, according to Zeidan, belong to Fuad Qasasfa, Khadir Salamah, and Abed Audah.
He also highlighted that several landowners in the area recently received warnings from the Israeli authorities warning them that reclamation of land is prohibited.
On Monday, the parish priest for Beit Jala, Ibrahim Shomali, said the situation for residents of Beit Jala, which is predominantly Christian, was deteriorating fast due to Israeli measures.
"The situation of our Christian community is not a good situation," he said.
"Nobody is hearing us except him (Jesus); he can hear, he can help, he can hope and he can change the minds of the political leaders in Israel to give us what we need and what is just for our people and our country."
Shomali was speaking to reporters about Israel's plans to confiscate land belonging to the Cremisan vineyard to make way for its wall.
The owners are fighting the takeover in Israeli courts. "For us, we don't believe it will have an effect because they do what they do for the good of their country, not the good of peace or the Palestinian people.
"But we can't go to other places, this is the only choice we have."
Israel has stepped up its demolitions of Palestinian property in occupied land this year, razing double the number of homes and water wells from 2010, human rights groups said Tuesday.
The statement endorsed by 20 organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch further said settler violence against Palestinians had risen in 2011 and that Israel had sped up its expansion of settler enclaves.
They urged members of the Middle East peacemaking "Quartet" -- the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- to put pressure on Israel to "reverse its settlement policies and freeze all demolitions that violate international law".
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444622
Higher Islamic council warns of Israeli intent to close Aqsa Mosque
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The higher Islamic council in occupied Jerusalem slammed Israeli calls for closing the Aqsa Mosque before Muslim worshipers, describing such idea as reckless and irresponsible.
"The Jews have nothing to do with Al-Buraq Wall (wailing wall) and Al-Maghariba Gate; they are all Islamic waqf under the jurisdiction of the Islamic authority of endowments that is responsible for supervising them and making repairs," the Islamic council said in a press release on Monday.
The council held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for the partial collapse that happened to Al-Maghariba ramp as a result of its excavations and construction work in the area.
An official from the Israeli planning and building committee named Sasson Gabai called yesterday on the IOA to close all entrances to the Aqsa Mosque to prevent the entry of Palestinian worshipers so as to pressure the Islamic authority of endowments into accepting the demolition of Al-Maghariba Gate ramp.
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(zionists view on this)
Hamas And The Temple Monty Python
Hamas cannot see a top without verbally going over it.
Even by the standards of the flowery rhetoric of their usual outbursts they've excelled on the subject of the closure of a wooden ramp leading from the Western Wall plaza up to what Jews call the Temple Mount, and is known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif.
Spokesman Fawzi Barhum said this was a 'violent act which amounts to a declaration of religious war on the Muslim holy places'. He continued - ''This is a serious step that shows the Zionist scheme of aggression against the Al-Aqsa mosque'.
Another spokesmen said the closure 'would be a criminal act which constitutes a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the al-Aqsa mosque and a provocation to the feelings of millions of Muslims'.
The Al-Aqsa does indeed sit atop the Haram al-Sharif, but the reaction above is a mixture of the ranting of the People's Front Of Judea from Monty Python, and Dave Spart from the British satirical magazine Private Eye (cont p36)...
The ramp is a temporary structure giving access to the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam's third holiest site. It is rickety and considered by the Jerusalem city council as both a fire hazard and in danger of collapse. It really ought to be demolished and a permanent structure built as in days of old. However the Netanyahu government is too nervous to do this in case it sparks Muslim outrage and a wave of rioting.
But the ramp is used almost entirely by non Jewish and non Muslim tourists. Muslims tend to enter the Haram al-Sharif from one of the other ten entrances which are currently open. Oddly enough when the wooden ramp was first built, to replace a crumbling earth ramp, the Muslim authorities opposed its construction.
How closing the ramp amounts to a 'war on the Muslim holy places' is beyond me, but not beyond the Palestinian negotiator Saad Erekat who believes 'this shows their determination to judaize Jerusalem and to take over the city’s Muslim holy places,”
In fact the decision to temporarily close the ramp in no way prevents Muslims from accessing the Haram al-Sharif.
On occasions the Israeli police do just that when they lock the area down they say to prevent violence. Sometimes all access is prevented, sometimes they restrict access to women, children and older men, but closing a bridge which Muslims don't use hardly counts as an act of repression. The closure will disappoint some tourists, and marginally hit the tourism economy upon which so many people in the city rely.
Jewish law prevents Jews from worshiping in the Temple Mount on religious grounds, (it is the site of King Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in the year 70). Israeli law forbids worship there by non Muslims, on pain of arrest, on the grounds of public order.
The Palestinian religious authorities keep watch to ensure that Christians do not bring religious objects to the site. Non Muslims must also ask permission if they want to go into the mosques. I've been up on the Temple Mount many times and on three occasions have asked for access to the mosques. I've been refused three times. One day I would love to share in the beauty and indeed holiness of such a place. Mind you, I would also like to be considered a fit and proper person to see Mecca, but that is also forbidden to non Muslims, and also another story.
But back to this sorry stretch of wood. Ahead of the closure the Jordanian government warned Israel against any 'threats and aggressions' which would lead to 'endless violence in the Middle East'.
Behind the synthetic outrage, over what looks like a safety issue, is the real reason for these childish outbursts -every stone, every grave, every gate, and every cherished memory, is regarded as political dynamite and a battle worth fighting even if it results in death. Therefore the usual suspects on the Palestinian side (and they have their Israeli counterparts) feel the need to whip even minor incidents into a matter of life, death, war, aggression, and 'endless violence'.
What would they rather, the bridge collapase under the weight of 100 tourists? That it catches alight in the summer and the fire spread to the Haram al-Sherif?
Many Muslims around the world will view this 'outrage' with a shrug of the shoulders, there are other, genuine issues to care about, including some in that tiny part of the world known as Israel/Palestine. But Hamas wants permanent outrage, for without that, what do they have?
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Beit Jala Municipality Condemns House Demolitions
BEIT JALA, (WAFA) - Beit Jala Municipality Tuesday condemned the demolition of several houses in al-Makhrour area of Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, according to a statement.
It said the Israeli army demolished several houses in the area, a traditionally agricultural valley that has been shrunk by Israeli settlement infrastructure.
It said, “The houses located in our town were considered to be ‘illegally built’ by the Israeli occupation authorities.”
“This new Israeli illegal act of aggression adds to the threats over the Cremisan valley, where the Israeli occupation pretends to build their illegal Wall, the ongoing settlement expansion in the illegal settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo as well as the newly announced settlement expansion at Efrat, in the southern Bethlehem area,” it said.
“The Israeli actions aim to turn Bethlehem into a canton surrounded by 19 Israeli settlements, bypass roads, movement restrictions and the Apartheid Wall,” said the statement.
“Our town, one of the most traditional areas for Palestinian Christian heritage, has been one of the most affected by the Israeli occupation, being reduced to less than one third of the size we used to have before the Israeli occupation began in 1967,” it said.
Beit Jala Municipality called upon the international community in general and churches around the world in particular to exercise pressure on Israel to end its occupation, give Palestinians back their land and grant them the right to build a future of dignity and self determination in their homeland, Palestine.
“We would like to reaffirm that despite the daily Israeli aggressions, our town will continue to prepare for Christmas,” it said.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18348
Israeli Forces Demolish Four Houses in Beit Jala
BEIT JALA, (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday demolished four houses in Beit Jala, a town south of Jerusalem, without prior notice, according to a WAFA correspondent.
Israeli forces raided the town and demolished the houses of
Jeries Zeidan,
Yousef Zo’mat,
Khader Khalelieh, and
Abed Odeh,
who recently renovated the old buildings.
Israeli soldiers raided Beit Jala on Monday evening and handed Palestinians notices that prohibit land reclamation in the area, under the pretext that it is “Israeli property,” said one of the residents.
Khalelieh told WAFA that the demolition stems from the Israeli policy of depopulating and taking over Palestinian land.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18339
Official: Israeli authorities order farmers to stop work on land
SALFIT (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities handed orders to five Palestinian farmers on Monday forbidding them from cultivating their land because it is considered "public property of the government of Israel," a local official said.
The mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan village near Salfit called on the Palestinian Authority to end attacks on village lands by both the Israeli government and settlers.
Yousif Said Miry, Nadir Mustafa Miry, Sabir Mustafa Miry, Khadir Ismail Miry and Samih Ibrahim Asi all possess documentation and deeds proving that they own the land, the mayor added.
The local municipality secretary Husam Asi said that the farmers were given 45 days to present their case in front of Israeli courts.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444521 14 dec 2011, 10:14 , Respect -
Maria 14 dec 2011
20 NGOs demand int'l quartet to end demolition of Palestinian homes
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- 20 international non-governmental organizations strongly condemned Israel for escalating its demolition of Palestinian homes especially during 2011 and demanded the international quartet on the middle east to have such violation of international law stopped immediately.
In a joint statement, these NGOs including Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and Amnesty International said the year 2011 witnessed a significant increase in the number of Palestinian homes demolished by Israel as well as in settlement expansion activities and violent acts by settlers.
On the eve of two meetings held separately with Israeli and Palestinian officials by the quartet's envoys, the NGOs called on the quartet to remind the parties to the conflict of their obligations under international law.
Their statement also read that since the start of 2011, more than 500 Palestinian homes, wells and water containers and other basic infrastructure in the West Bank and Jerusalem have been destroyed, which led to the displacement of more than 1, 000 Palestinians according to UN statistics.
"This is more than double the number of people displaced over the same period in 2010, and the highest figure since at least 2005. More than half of those displaced have been children for whom the loss of their home is particularly devastating," the statement emphasized.
Sarah Whitson, the middle east director at Human Rights Watch said, "The Quartet should call ongoing settlement expansion and house demolitions what they are: violations of international humanitarian law that Israel should stop."
For his part, Amnesty official Phillip Luther said, "Israel’s escalating violations show the fundamental failure of the Quartet’s approach. It is time for the quartet to understand that they cannot contribute to achieving a just and durable solution to the conflict without first ensuring respect for international law."
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Mughrabi Bridge reopens with fire truck in tow
Bridge leading to Temple Mount reopens after 48 hour closure but controversy remains over decision to renovate bridge instead of having it demolished.
Just 48 hours after the Mughrabi Bridge, which leads to Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was closed over safety concerns, it has been reopened to pedestrians on Wednesday.
Jerusalem security forces have stationed a fire truck nearby as a safety measure as a Jerusalem Municipality engineer declared that the structure is a public health and fire hazard and is in danger of collapsing.
"The government's helplessness in dealing with this hazardous and dilapidated nuisance at the heart of the Western Wall and entrance to Temple Mount is regrettable," the statement read.
City officials, who were in favor of demolishing the bridge and building a new one in its place, were not happy with Netanyahu's decision. Mayor Nir Barkat expressed concern that "Netanyahu's conduct will delay the completion of a new bridge and will prevent the restoration of the status quo, which was violated by its closure.
"A correct process of decision making would have produced the right solution of placing a permanent and safe walkway in place of the old one," the statement read.
Tourists interested in visiting the Temple Mount were upset by the decision to close the bridge.
"The bridge should be open to everyone, not just Muslims," Wayne, a German tourist who is visiting Israel for the fourth time, told Ynet.
Another tourist, a South African who is visiting Jerusalem for the first time, told Ynet he was disappointed by the decision: "It was supposed to be one of the highlights of our trip. It's a shame we can't go there."
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Maria 15 dec 2011
Report: Israel to mull bill legalizing outposts
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli lawmakers will discuss on Sunday a law to legalize settlement outposts built on land owned by Palestinians, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
Israeli daily Haaretz said the bill will halt removal of outposts if Palestinian landowners failed to lodge an appeal within four years of its construction.
After clashes between settlers and Israeli forces, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to reassure settlers that he supports their building in the West Bank -- illegal under international law but divided under Israeli law between sanctioned settlements and unauthorized outposts.
"Our main effort should be put into strengthening settlement, not in conflict with the law, and certainly not through conflict with one another," he said in November.
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni condemned the bill on Thursday, saying that it "sends a strong message to those who throw rocks at IDF troops that force is effective," Israeli news site Ynet reported.
Hardline settler groups have lashed out after a Supreme Court ruling that outposts built on private Palestinian land be dismantled, attacking an army base on Monday and torching three Palestinian mosques in the past seven days.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=445349