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Israel will concede land
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/11/28 13:59  Shanghai Daily

  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Israel will be forced to make territorial concessions to Palestinians as part of future peace efforts.

  "I spoke in the past about the need for painful concessions," Sharon said at a news conference. "It is clear that in the future we will not be in all the places we are now."

  Sharon had said last week he would take "unilateral steps" to ease tensions between Israel and the Palestinians should the sides fail to reach agreement. Israeli media reported Sharon was putting together a plan that would include dismantling some West Bank and Gaza Strip settlements.

  "I must say as a Jew as a citizen of the country ... I have to make every effort insgroupsto bring quiet and peace," he said. "I will do whatever is needed to do this with just one condition: preserving the security of the citizens of Israel and preserving the security of the state of Israel."

  Sharon also warned Palestinians that time was running out their efforts to get territorial concessions from Israel.

  "It is clear that there is a limit to our patience," he said. "The Palestinians should have already understood that what they have not received today, it is possible we will not be able to give them tomorrow."

  Sharon's statement came hours after another official said Israel was in the final stages of legalizing new West Bank settlements, a clear violation of its commitments to the United States and to an internationally backed peace plan.

  The "road map" peace plan - which envisions the formation of a Palestinian state by 2005 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - requires Israel to remove dozens of unauthorized West Bank outposts established since March 2001 and to freeze construction at existing settlements.

  But Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim said yesterday that Israel was in the final stages of granting "legal" status to some West Bank outposts and had also granted a tender to expand the West Bank settlement of Negohot.

  Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said the moves undermine the road map, and called on the United States to halt the Israeli measures.

  The United States said on Tuesday it was deducting US.5 million out of US billion in loan guarantees to Israel due to ongoing Israeli construction in the West Bank.

  Jewish settlers have been establishing unauthorized hilltop outposts since 1998 in an attempt to establish new "facts on the ground" to prevent land-for-peace agreements with the Palestinians. They have enjoyed the quiet support of hard-line Israeli governments, which have provided soldiers to guard them. As foreign minister in 1998, Sharon urged settlers to seize hilltops.

  Although the government calls some of the outposts "illegal," it has allowed settlers to pave roads to the hilltop areas, which are often made up of no more than a few trailers and a handful of settlers.

  "Illegal outposts were built in the past three years, this is not a secret. I am saying that some of them are towns, that the process of legalizing them is near the end, and this is the difference," Boim told Israel Army Radio.

  Other outposts that are not being "legalized" will be dismantled, Boim said, adding that dozens of unauthorized outposts have been removed in the past three years.




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