Sharon Hails Settlers, Challenges ‘Roadmap’

[Resistance]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0307/S00316.htm

Sharon Hails Settlers, Challenges ‘Roadmap’ on Settlements, ‘Bluffs’ World on ‘Outposts’

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) on Monday approved PM Sharon’s statement that the fate of the illegal Jewish settlements would be determined in final-status negotiations with the Palestinians on a peace treaty, in a new challenge to the US-sponsored “roadmap” peace plan, which calls in its first stage for a freeze on settlement activity.

“We have no intention of dealing with this now. It would not be in Israel's interest,” said Sharon, who has said he is ready to make “painful concessions” for peace, which some interpret as meaning the one-time settler champion could remove settlements.

Sharon also praised the illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying that the there has been an attempt to disgrace them, while they endure murderous attacks, Haaretz quoted the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) radio as saying.

Sharon however pledged Monday to remove “illegal” settler outposts in the West Bank to meet a demand made in a US-backed peace plan that also calls for a freeze on all settlement activity.

“It's all a bluff,” Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said in the meeting. “They dismantle outposts, then they return, and a blind eye is turned. The establishment of outposts is intended to prevent a territorial continuity between Palestinian towns,” Gal-On said.

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[Darranar]

1. I agre with Zehava...

Lying right-wingers. Same here as there.