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The Migron unauthorized outpost in the West Bank. (Jini Archives) Last update - 21:18 25/02/2008 Ramon: PM wants accord with West Bank settlers on unauthorized outposts By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, outposts, West Bank  Vice Premier Haim Ramon told a Knesset panel Monday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants to reach an agreement with West Bank settlers on the fate of the unauthorized outposts. In comments to the Knesset State Control Committee, Ramon warned that the government would dismantle the outposts by force if necessary. "We don't want a confrontation, but if there is no choice, the government will fulfill its obligations. Ramon added that an examination of the approximately 100 outposts shows that "about a third of them can be granted authorization, a third can in no way be given authorization, and [authorizations for] a third can be discussed." Advertisement The vice premier said the government would evacuate the 26 outposts established after March 2001, as it is obligated to due under the U.S.-backed road map for Middle East peace. "This is a commitment to the U.S. and it is very difficult to break such a promise," he said. Attorney Talia Sasson, who compiled an official report on the outposts in 2006 commissioned by former prime minister Ariel Sharon, told the Ministerial Committee on Outposts on Monday that there was no room for compromise on the issue. "I would be happy if the committee were to do nothing, and leave the situation as it is," she said. "That would be better than adopting this draft, which would allow large-scale construction in the territories, including the illegal outposts." Defense Minister Ehud Barak's advisor on settlement affairs, Eitan Broshi, said during the hearing that talks are underway with the Yesha Council of Settlements in an attempt to reach an agreement. "Nobody wants another Amona," said Broshi, in reference to the violent 2006 evacuation of the Amona settlement outpost. Ramon and Civil Administration head Yoav Mordechai told the panel that no new outposts have been erected since 2005. The head of the Gush Eztion Regional Council, Shaul Goldstein, slammed Sasson's report. "It examined 200 of more than 1,000 towns in Israel," he said. "100 percent of them were established and only then received authorizations, just like the outposts. This includes towns established before the state was founded, as well as towns established in the 70s and 80s." National Religious Party MK Nissan Slomiansky urged the government to adopt a similar approach to the one taken regarding unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, and form a committee to work towards recognizing the unauthorized outposts. Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan, however, asked why the state was building roads to the outposts given that they are unauthorized. Related articles: Peace Now: Building in illegal outposts stepped-up during war Livni: Israel will not remove outposts until PA fights terror U.S. renews pressure on Israel to remove W. Bank outposts IDF, Border Police evacuate and dismantle two W. Bank outposts Bookmark to del.icio.us   Hunting journalists Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran? Farming organic At Or-Gani, Israel's organic revolution is taking on new forms.   1.   We should keep our strategic assets. 20:23  |  Jean Van Daem 25/02/08   2.   A Little Bit Here and Little Tuck There 20:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/02/08   3.   Difficult to Break a Promise? 20:33  |  Shlomo 25/02/08   4.   And thier obligations to the Jewish people? 20:40  |  smarter then Ramon 25/02/08   5.   Unauthorized Outposts 20:56  |  Rollin 25/02/08   6.   sure 20:57  |  al 25/02/08   7.   All 100 are illegal 21:04  |  Boycott 25/02/08   8.   Ramon warned..."dismantle the outposts by `force`..." 21:21  |  common sense 25/02/08   9.   So long as Pal missiles are coming in, Israel owes Pals nothing 21:49  |  Sam 25/02/08   10.   That`s fighting talk and Israelis see what happened after the 21:57  |  redmike 25/02/08   11.   4 - his boss is cut from the same cloth! 22:00  |  redmike 25/02/08   12.   Outposts: This he can promise a strong response 22:08  |  dov epstein 25/02/08   13.   Ramon and Olmert should be talking from PRISON 22:46  |  John the Gentile 25/02/08   14.   Ramon, the cute "leftist". 22:50  |  Avi 25/02/08   15.   "and it is very difficult to break such a promise" 23:16  |  Axel 25/02/08   16.   Lefanot Achshav! Evacuate Now! 23:22  |  Michael 25/02/08   17.   ramon omlmert`s emissaryr 23:49  |  marcel 25/02/08   18.   Oye, not again... 23:51  |  Esther 25/02/08   19.   Complicity not "accord"... 23:55  |  Esther 25/02/08   20.   Esther is right 00:45  |  Benny 26/02/08   21.   No one in Israel has the guts ... 00:48  |  spyguy 26/02/08   22.   What about the primary obligation of the road map 02:10  |  David Miller 26/02/08   23.   David Miller - Because... 03:13  |  Free Gilad Shalit 26/02/08   24.   Spyguy-Abbas "talks" to Hamas so Olmert "talks" to the settlers 04:26  |  Sam 26/02/08   25.   #19 There are no "primary obligations", David Miller 05:40  |  Johnboy 26/02/08   26.   Does anyone care to read the Road Map? 08:12  |  Johnboy 26/02/08

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