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April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The issue of outposts is particularly incendiary as many are built on
privately owned Palestinian land, and Israel has made repeated pledges in
the past to dismantle dozens of them.
Britain responded angrily to the move, accusing Israel of being in breach of
commitments it made under the Bush era Road Map to freeze all settlement
construction on land it captured during the Six Day War of 1967.
“Systematic, illegal Israeli settlement activity poses the most
significant and live threat to the viability of the two state solution,”
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said. “The Israeli government’s
policy is illegal under international law, counterproductive, destabilising
and provocative.”
With more than 500,000 Israelis now living beyond the pre-1967 armistice
lines, Palestinians say it will soon be impossible to build a state of their
own because the settlement footprint extends across so much of the West Bank
and East Jerusalem, which they claim as their capital.
Mr Abbas, who has refused to negotiate with Israel unless it carries out
earlier pledges to freeze settlement construction, had included a threat to
dismantle the Palestinian Authority in a letter to Mr Netanyahu to be
delivered next week.
But he withdrew the clause under pressure from President Barack Obama.
The authority was only ever meant to be an interim measure on the way to full
Palestinian statehood, and many in the West Bank believe that it now serves
Israel’s interests far more than its own.
If it were dismantled, Israel would be forced to send its troops back into
Palestinian cities and bear the full cost of its occupation, much of which
is now shouldered by Britain and its European partners.
“Do not accept the request of President Obama, who merely wants to be
left undisturbed before election day,” Mr Beilin wrote in an open
letter to Mr Abbas.
“Do not let Prime Minister Netanyahu hide behind the fig leaf of the
Palestinian Authority – impose upon him, once again, the responsibility for
the fate of 4 million Palestinians.
“For the sake of your own people, and for the sake of peace, you cannot
let this farce continue.” Sealed by a famous handshake in 1993 between
Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn as a beaming Bill
Clinton looked on, the Oslo accords were the result of months of secret
negotiations between Mr Beilin – then deputy foreign minister – and PLO
representative Ahmed Qurei.
But while the agreement represented the high point of the peace process, Mr
Beilin said it had been so twisted it had now become detrimental to hopes
for peace.
“Oslo’s adversaries have turned the interim agreement, which was
supposed to last not more than six years and serve only as a pathway to a
finale solution, into an arena where they can continue to build settlements
or spin their dream of an Islamic empire,” he wrote.
“The extremists’ gutting of the Oslo agreement has been complete. One
simply cannot continue with an interim agreement for more than 20 years.”
Last night Israel responded to the comments by Mr Hague, saying it would be
better if he put pressure instead on the Palestinians to drop its demand for
a settlement freeze and resume negotiations unconditionally.
“The only possible framework for a realistic solution to the settlement
issue has been, and still is, direct negotiations between Israel and the
Palestinians,” said Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign
ministry.
“As long as the Palestinians continue to shun direct talks by all kinds
of pretexts and excuses life goes on and the issues remain unresolved.”
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