Government issues tenders for 164 new homes in the West Bank - Haaretz

Last update - 21:25 21/09/2006

Government issues tenders for 164 new homes in the West Bank

By Reuters

The government is planning to build 164 new homes in three settlements in the West Bank, despite an obligation under a U.S.-backed peace road map to halt such construction on land Palestinians seek for a state.

The Israel Lands Administration, a government agency, issued a tender inviting bids on 88 plots in the Ariel settlement, 56 in Alfei Menashe and 20 in Karnei Shomron.

Israel's Peace Now settlement watchdog criticized the move. "This tender hurts the interests of the state of Israel. It is a provocative step which goes against the majority of the Israeli public," said Mossi Raz, a senior member of the group.

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The latest tender follows one published on September 4 to build 690 new homes in the settlements of Maaleh Adumim and Beitar Ilit, the largest number of housing bids for settlement building offered since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took office in May.

Israel Lands Administration data showed that 98 housing plots were marketed in the West Bank from January to August.

The new tender brings to 952 the number of plots offered this year. That compares with 1,180 plots in 2005 and 1,075 in 2004.

While Israel has failed to suspend settlement building under the first stage of the road map, the Palestinians have not met their own obligation to dismantle militant groups.

Before the Lebanon war, Olmert had planned to unilaterally withdraw from swathes of the West Bank in the absence of peace talks with the Palestinians.

He shelved that plan after a month-long war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon that ended with an August 14 cease-fire.

Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets at towns in northern Israel during the war, raising concern among Israelis that a West Bank pullback could leave cities in the center of the country vulnerable to similar attacks by Palestinians.

The World Court has branded all Jewish settlements on occupied land as illegal. Israel disputes this.

Some 240,000 Jewish settlers and 2.4 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, territory Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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1.	More land theft	17:37	\|	Oliver Masterman	21/09/06

2.	This is not right	17:56	\|	Dave	21/09/06

3.	anti-Semitism preceded state of Israel	18:09	\|	Paul Freedman	21/09/06

4.	Another robbery from Olmert ...	18:11	\|	007	21/09/06

5.	Doing this makes Israel look very very bad	18:13	\|	Mark	21/09/06

6.	Take More Jewish Land and Give to Jews	18:20	\|	David Joshua Ben Avr	21/09/06

7.	If the palestininas refuse to make peace..	18:22	\|	SHIMON	21/09/06

8.	GREAT NEWS! May it continue	18:22	\|	SHIMOn	21/09/06

9.	164 new homes	18:23	\|	when does this stop?	21/09/06

10.	Olmert: Build the Negev. Stop making errors	18:24	\|	Mark	21/09/06

11.	#4--not true: it`s Israel`s	18:24	\|	Paul Freedman	21/09/06

12.	Bravo to these Haaretz headlines , it is called	18:24	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

13.	Government issues tenders for 164 new homes in the West Bank	18:24	\|	Fred Jones	21/09/06

14.	Note that this all happened in places israel would keep anyway	18:25	\|	SHIMON	21/09/06

15.	West Bank is ours. Should be 1640 homes.	18:27	\|	Yakov	21/09/06

16.	I hope those settler terrorists are removed	18:38	\|	Stephen Murray	21/09/06

17.	What only NON-JEWS are allowed to live on this land ?!?	18:39	\|	amir	21/09/06

18.	There needs to be a peace conference now!	18:52	\|	Mark	21/09/06

19.	How much land do you need	19:02	\|	JR	21/09/06

20.	Stephen Murray	19:03	\|	SHIMON	21/09/06

21.	A nation going astray...	19:04	\|	Hanoman	21/09/06

22.	I have a question for which I do not the answer	19:05	\|	Shlomzion	21/09/06

23.	Israel creating own borders	19:06	\|	Avi Yerushalmi	21/09/06

24.	they won`t last long	19:09	\|	Gaza Boy	21/09/06

25.	ad. Yakov (#15)	19:17	\|	Hanoman	21/09/06

26.	# 2 Dave , if you are refering to Israel as her	19:19	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

27.	To Oliver #1.	19:23	\|	Vital	21/09/06

28.	Yaakov and Joseph E are criminal morons	19:23	\|	Marilyn	21/09/06

29.	#13 - Fred Jones	19:24	\|	Michael F	21/09/06

30.	#18 - Mark	19:26	\|	Michael F	21/09/06

31.	ShlomZion	19:31	\|	Hanoman	21/09/06

32.	#28 -- To Marilyn	19:35	\|	Michael F	21/09/06

33.	This is our Land	19:38	\|	Eugene	21/09/06

34.	Israel`s Violations Must Be Met With Boycotts and UN Sanctions	19:45	\|	Ariel Shysterman	21/09/06

35.	Settlements and convergence	19:51	\|	Yonatan	21/09/06

36.	Value of Israeli Government Committments	19:52	\|	Mark of Lewiston	21/09/06

37.	Israel`s Vision for Peace!!!	19:53	\|	Gaza Mo	21/09/06

38.	houses in the west bank	19:55	\|	joelle	21/09/06

39.	Israel same as the golan heights same as the west bank	19:56	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

40.	"Wanting" land does not confer entitlement	20:02	\|	Mrs Ita Peach	21/09/06

41.	# 28 Marilyn , your anger is excusable , would you please try	20:22	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

42.	Land for peace is absurd	20:25	\|	M.A.	21/09/06

43.	Mrs Peach - Wanting Peace is No Entitlement	20:27	\|	Mark of Lewiston	21/09/06

44.	40. Mrs Ita Peach - the "Palestinian"	20:27	\|	Mendel the Mean	21/09/06

45.	#19 Reality check for JR in LA	20:29	\|	Jimmy	21/09/06

46.	#32 to Michael and Marilyn	20:37	\|	Boycott	21/09/06

47.	To No. 31 Excluding Jews	20:38	\|	Shlomzion	21/09/06

48.	Is it Israel`s responsibility to reward Hamas?	20:48	\|	Voice of Reason	21/09/06

49.	Israel`s historic homeland	20:58	\|	Brod	21/09/06

50.	# 43 Mark of Lewiston , demonstration of act of peace	21:07	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

51.	What a bunch of sleazy liars the Israelis are	21:14	\|	Clickfool	21/09/06

52.	#48	21:23	\|	From the Moon	21/09/06

53.	49 Joseph E - Disengagement	21:26	\|	Mark of Lewiston	21/09/06

54.	# 34 Ariel Shysterman , are you advocating that a	21:26	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

55.	Typical bigotry from Stephen Murray	21:26	\|	David	21/09/06

56.	We are not building new settlements!	21:29	\|	Avi Yerushalmi	21/09/06

57.	Clickfool, any comment on the arab promise to stop terrorism?	21:30	\|	SHIMON	21/09/06

58.	No. 51	21:30	\|	Shlomzion	21/09/06

59.	These settlements look even more dreary...	21:30	\|	Andreas	21/09/06

60.	To Shimon#8	21:33	\|	Otto Rand	21/09/06

61.	#51 Typical Clickfool, vile remarks and insults	21:35	\|	David	21/09/06

62.	moral outrage over a city block	21:37	\|	peter	21/09/06

63.	prejudices	21:38	\|	mimi	21/09/06

64.	# 51 clickfool remember what bush said ,	21:41	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

65.	What did you expect?	21:45	\|	Tom B	21/09/06

66.	To No. 60, Otto Rand, Stolen property	21:47	\|	Shlomzion	21/09/06

67.	#42 M.A.	21:57	\|	Jimmy	21/09/06

68.	Otto...false assumptions	22:12	\|	SHIMON	21/09/06

69.	62 Peter - 3000 Blocks Ago	22:19	\|	Mark of Lewiston	21/09/06

70.	the moral ones	22:24	\|	Billy Jack	21/09/06

71.	#54 - Joseph E.	22:29	\|	Ariel Shysterman	21/09/06

72.	settlements	22:31	\|	mike	21/09/06

73.	It is Israel gift for you Diaspora , Let`s have fun	22:40	\|	Joseph E .	21/09/06

74.	It is Lebensraum	22:53	\|	David	21/09/06

75.	KEEP On building, building building and building!!!!	23:21	\|	Ben Uziel	21/09/06

76.	I want one!	23:57	\|	American Patriot	21/09/06

77.	To Lewiston	00:04	\|	Tman	22/09/06

78.	More stolen land	00:13	\|	Maureen Ann	22/09/06

79.	#2 Dave, good and noble sentiments	00:13	\|	hala	22/09/06

80.	Only Americans can stop the land grab	00:14	\|	Mike	22/09/06

81.	Ben Uziel #75	00:21	\|	Avi Yerushlami	22/09/06

82.	ClickFOOL #51: What a sleazy liar you are	00:22	\|	Jonathan S	22/09/06

83.	they dont want a Palestinian State	00:27	\|	Omar	22/09/06

84.	How cute	00:30	\|	Omar	22/09/06

85.	Dave, there are other issues	00:33	\|	Omar	22/09/06

86.	#32 Michalel F. to Marilyn	00:35	\|	hala	22/09/06

87.	DAVID JOSHUA BEN AVR	00:36	\|	Omar	22/09/06

88.	#75	00:39	\|	melchizedek	22/09/06

89.	#28 P.S. Michael to Marylin	00:41	\|	hala	22/09/06

90.	Schnorrer-land	01:12	\|	Mendel the Mean	22/09/06

91.	# 71 Ariel Shysterman, Caliphated mind , absolutism	01:46	\|	Joseph E .	22/09/06

92.	Mark of Lewiston- 3000 blocks ago	03:04	\|	peter	22/09/06

93.	Billy Jack bests David Copperfield	03:09	\|	peter	22/09/06

94.	# 53 Mark of Lewiston , who`s the frauder	03:10	\|	Joseph E .	22/09/06

95.	Why not more tenders	04:02	\|	Ray	22/09/06

96.	Adam & Eve`s Kids or maybe the cockroaches	05:15	\|	buggs	22/09/06

97.	New building in west bank?	11:59	\|	Irio	22/09/06

98.	#73, Joseph E.	22:51	\|	Hannah	22/09/06

99.	Jungle law?	16:06	\|	007	23/09/06