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Netanyahu promotes settlement, calls the West Bank “ancestors’ land”

[ PIC 08/06/2012 – 10:20 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue “the process of construction” of Jewish only settlements in all the occupied Palestinian territory in an effort to appease the powerful settler movement.

Netanyahu’s statement came in an attempt to calm the angry reaction of settlers and the right-wing extremist parties due to the Knesset’s rejection of controversial legislation that would have legalized unauthorized Jewish settlements in the West Bank and saved from demolition five buildings in the Givat Ulpana outpost, which Israel’s High Court ruled were built on privately owned Palestinian land.

Netanyahu stressed, in a statement issued by his office, commenting on the Israeli Parliament’s decision, “the West Bank is our ancestors’ land, and Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.”

He revealed that he decided to relocate five settlement units, which were slated to be removed, from Ulpana outpost neighborhood north of Bethlehem (south of the occupied West Bank) to a former Israeli military base in the West Bank and instead he proposed an alternative plan to build as many as 300 new additional housing units in the nearby settlement of Beit El.

Furthermore, Netanyahu proposed to set up a ministerial settlement committee, which has the authority to authorize West Bank construction, in order to “ensure the implementation of Israeli policy concerning promoting and strengthening the settlement,” the Zionist PM said.

The bill, which would have legalized unauthorized Jewish settlements in the West Bank, was opposed by the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defeated, on Wednesday 6 June, by 69 to 22 votes at the Knesset, with 29 abstentions. After the results were announced, thousands of right-wing demonstrators, most of them minors, took to the streets outside the Knesset in protest, leading to two arrests





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