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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (9137)	8/24/2005 1:10:30 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

No one else suffers? Israel Launches Its Largest Ever Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem 62,000 Dunums of Palestinian Land Confiscated to Expand Ma’ale Adumim Colony 23/08/2005 Following up on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s pledge on Monday to enlarge the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israel has begun its largest ever settlement expansion plan and confiscated an area larger than the Gaza Strip to enlarge the Jewish colony of Ma’ale Adumim to isolate Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and separate the southern West Bank from its northern part, Al-Ayyam daily reported on Tuesday. “Under the smokescreen of withdrawing from the Gaza (Strip) settlements the Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is undertaking the largest ever settlement expansion in the West Bank on an area of land larger than the Gaza Strip,” lawyer Mohammad Dahlah told the Ramallah-based Al-Ayyam daily. The new project is an expansion of the Israeli so-called E-1 plan to expand the illegal Jewish colony of Ma’ale Adumim in eastern Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967. The new settlement expansion plan would make the radium of Ma’ale Adumim double that of Tel Aviv, the largest Israeli city. The plan would kill the territorial and political contiguity of the West Bank by separating Jerusalem from the West Bank as well as separating the West Bank southern and northern parts from each other, thus ruling out any possibility for the creation of a viable Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital as envisaged by the Quartet-drafted and UN-adopted “roadmap” peace plan and the US President George W. Bush’s vision of the two-state solution for the Palestinian – Israeli conflict, Dahlah indicated. The new Israeli plan digs 14 kilometers deep into the West Bank in an area where the width of the West Bank is only 30 kilometers, he said. Dahlah said that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have already handed new military orders to Palestinians, which confiscate 62 thousand dunums of Palestinian land in addition to 1585 dunums of the privatly-owned Palestinian land in the villages of AtTour, Aza’yyem, Eastern Sawahira and east Jerusalem, which were confiscated to build Israel’s Apartheid Wall in the same area. Dahlah, who represents the Palestinians whose land were confiscated, said he will challenge the Israeli military orders before the Israeli courts. “It is not a coincidence to begin this settlement plan at a time Sharon is completing the pullout from the Gaza Strip,” Dahlah said. Sharon swiftly dispelled Palestinian hopes to build on Israel’s Gaza evacuation to reactivate the peace process by defiantly announcing his determination on Monday to continue expanding the illegal Israeli colonies on the West Bank, hours after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for implementing Bush's vision of two states and urged Israel to stop all its settlement activity if it was serious about peace. In a report Monday by The Jerusalem Post, Sharon said he is determined to enlarge Jewish settlements in the West Bank, confirming: “There will be building in the settlement blocs.” “Each (Israeli) government since 1967 – right, left and national unity – has seen strategic importance in specific areas [beyond the Green Line]… I will build"