Report Headline Loosely Translated from Hebrew:
Full Look at Olmert’s War on the Outposts, Including What the New Republic Wrote About Him
Acting PM Olmert: War Against Unauthorized Jewish Communities
Excerpts;
“Olmert, at a meeting Wednesday afternoon with security officials, ordered the IDF to draw up clear plans to prevent the creation of new outposts and to destroy existing ones.”
“Nearly every community in Judea and Samaria started as or engaged in building projects that were unauthorized at some stage. Israel’s ambiguous policies with regard to the future of Judea and Samaria have been blamed for this trend, as various government coalition members and heads of government ministries worked for and against Jewish resettlement of Judea, Samaria and Gaza following the Six Day War.”
“Olmert told the officials that until now the government has not acted with the necessary strength against the phenomenon ‘of illegal Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.’ Olmert said that the time has come to use overwhelming strength against the communities and instructed the Defense Minister to compile plans for uprooting outposts and declared that the significantly developed town of Amona near Ofra, would be destroyed in the coming days.”
Below is more Olmert demonizing invective;
Olmert Announces War on Outposts
National Union: We’ll Be in Amona if the Bulldozers Come
Benny Elon, Effi Eitam, etc., can we please have this in writing, duly signed and authorized? MB
Rightists: Olmert Stirring Up Civil War [If Can’t Fight Kassams, Fight Jews?]
Excerpts;
“Right-wing politicians on Wednesday questioned acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s drive to evict Jewish settlers from a Hebron neighborhood, accusing the former Jerusalem mayor of political maneuvering ahead of the March 28 general elections.”
“‘Olmert is instigating a civil war. There is room for a legal compromise but the acting prime minister prefers to ignore it in order to be the Left’s leader in the upcoming elections,’ MK Arieh Eldad of the National Union said.”