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Netanyahu evicts settlers on return from Washington
Thu May 21, 2009 2:37pm EDT
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KOKHAV HASHAHAR, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli police evicted Jewish settlers from a West Bank hilltop on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from Washington, where he was urged to take just such action.
Yet soon after paramilitary border police removed some three dozen people, bulldozing seven makeshift cabins, some were back rebuilding what they call Maoz Esther, or Esther's Stronghold -- an "outpost" deemed unlawful even by Israeli courts, which reject international rulings that all settlements are illegal.
U.S. President Barack Obama met Netanyahu on Monday at the White House. Obama wants the newly elected, right-wing prime minister to take concrete steps to revive stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, including a halt to all Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and the removal of the outposts.
Netanyahu, whose coalition took over from its centrist-led predecessor in late March, has been noncommital about settlements and has balked at opening negotiations on the most sensitive issues, including the future status of Jerusalem.
Netanyahu, at a ceremony later on Thursday marking the anniversary of Israel's capture of Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, angered Palestinians by saying the holy city would always be the undivided capital of the Jewish state.
Palestinians want the capital of their future state there.
Netanyahu said: "A united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Jerusalem was and will always be ours.
"It shall never be divided and disunited again."
The city, which even Israel's allies do not recognize as its capital, was divided by a Green Line into Arab East and Jewish West between 1948 and 1967, a result of the war over the establishment of Israel in formerly British-ruled Palestine.
PALESTINIAN REJECTION
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Netanyahu's comments were a setback to the goal of a two-state solution, which is strongly supported by the new Obama administration.
"Mr. Netanyahu, by saying that, he's saying the state of conflict will be eternal," Erekat said.
Half a million Jews live in settlement blocs and smaller outposts built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, all territory captured by Israel 42 years ago in the Six Day War.
The World Court says all are illegal. The United States and European Union agree and regard them as obstacles to peace.
Israeli leaders have pledged for years to remove a least a couple of dozen unauthorized outposts, part of the terms of the U.S.-backed "road map" to peace agreed to in 2003. Continued...
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