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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-11 10:24 AM
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Haaretz probe: IDF base to be built in East Jerusalem
The Jerusalem municipality plans to construct an Israel Defense Forces army base that will house military colleges on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, reportedly beyond the pre-1967 war green line
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Both the municipality as well as the Ministry of Defense dispute this claim, stating that the base will be built within the green line, however, Haaretz has revealed otherwise and according to the plans created by the architectural firm hired by the municipality, the base will encroach upon disputed territory.

The IDF colleges to be built on the potentially controversial base will include the command and staff school, the school for national security and the military academy that are currently located on the IDF base in Glilot. Although the majority of the units at the Glilot base are meant to be moved south as part of a plan to increase IDF presence in the Negev, the IDF, Jerusalem municipality and the Ministry of Defense agreed to move the colleges to the capital. Plans have already been set into motion, and the municipality has hired architect Eli Ilan to prepare the initial blueprints for the project.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/haaretz-probe-idf-base-to-be-built-in-east-jerusalem-1.343540

and this

Report: Israel mulls construction of police college in West Bank

Israel's Defense Ministry is looking at the possibility of moving an Israeli military college from central Israel into the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem, Israeli media reported.


The new area under consideration is beyond the Green Line, in territory recognized internationally as occupied, and a zone that Palestinians hope will be part of a future state, Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said,

According to the report, Israeli authorities are considering building college facilities between the Hebrew University campus at Mount Scopus and the Brigham Young University's Jerusalem campus, both built on lands occupied by Israeli forces after 1967.


The report also noted that construction would extend into the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Joz.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=360221

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