Government mulling cutting off utilities to llegal outposts

[Scurrilous]

http://www.maarivenglish.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=10604

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Right wing chastises move as “anti-Semitic”


"The PM has formed a special committee to examine the legal possibility of cutting off water and electricity supplies from illegal outposts, in an attempt to pressure the settlers to dismantle them."

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"The move comes in wake of growing US pressure on the government to fulfill its obligations and undertakings to the administration and President Bush himself to dismantle the illegal outposts in Judea and Samaria.

The evacuation process never got off the ground, as the government has been handcuffed by a combination of the settlers determination and aggressive legal strategies, and its own indecisiveness and hesitancy to take on the settlers over this issue.

The idea has been severely criticized by the settlers’ movement (Yesha Council) and the right wing parties. Council spokesperson Yehoshua More-Yosef said that even Palestinian towns have never been subjected to that kind of collective punishment, even after suicide bombings."

In other news:


http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10387804%5E1702,00.html

Israeli rockets hit power supply

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"AN Israeli helicopter fired five rockets that damaged a local power network and caused a blackout near Rafah in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said today.

There were no casualties in the attack."

[number6]

1. why do they have it in the first place ?

:shrug: (water and electricity) if there illegal

[bemildred]

2. A good question. nt