|   Zionists 
              fake dismantling of settlements for TV camera
 Palestinian Information Center
 16 June 2003
 
 Messainic Jewish settlers on Thursday said the Israeli Defense 
              Minister connived with them to vacate a settlement site before Television 
              cameras and return to it later. A settler leader said the settlers were told to evacuate the outpost 
              of Tel Hayim near Ramallah for a few days, ostensibly to create 
              an impression that Israel is dismantling settlemenets on the eve 
              Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to Washington. The settler leader, Noam Hass, a spokosesman for the Gush Emunim 
              settler movement, said he was promised by the Israeli Ministry of 
              Defense that they would be allowed to return to the site after Sharon's 
              visit to Washington. Hass said the settlers and defence establishment representatives 
              were negotiating an arrangement that will prevent the evacuation 
              by force of Tel Hayim where two families currently live at the outpost. Meanwhile, the apartheid Israeli regime reported that the number 
              of messianic Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank and 
              Gaza Strip has risen by 5,415 since the beginning of 2003, with 
              Betar Illit growing the fastest, Interior Ministry statistics from 
              the end of June reveal. The Zionist Interior Ministry found that there are 231,443 settlers 
              living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and that the largest settlements 
              are Ma'aleh Adumim, Modi'in Illit and Betar Illit, Israel Radio 
              reported Thursday morning. The Settlers devour the lion's share of water resources, leaving 
              3.5 million Palestinians often literally thirsty. The settlers, many of them immigrants from North America, are indoctrinated 
              in a Nazi-like ideology, advocating the extermination, expulsion 
              or enslavement of non-Jews in Palestine. The Jewish-only settlements are financed mainly by grants and loans 
              by the American government.  © Copyright 2003 by palestine-info.co.uk
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