{"id":13490,"date":"2005-08-01T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=13490&lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-13T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:02:35","slug":"what-is-an-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/what-is-an-outpost","title":{"rendered":"What is an outpost?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cOutpost\u201d is a term for describing how the settlers \u201cpull the wool over our eyes\u201d by establishing settlements despite the fact that, in 1996, the government of Israel pledged not to build any more of them.<\/div>\n
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In reality, outposts are new settlements.\u00a0 Today, there are more than 100 outposts throughout the West Bank. Around 50 were established after March 2001 (According to the Road Map, Israel is committed to dismantling all of the outposts established after February 2001). Just like the official settlements at the time, these outposts were established with the goal of attaining two different objectives, which, basically, are both sides of the same coin:\u00a0 on the one hand, to create a continuity of Israeli presence by taking over as much land as possible and on the other, creating a barrier between the various Palestinian population centers.\u00a0 That is to say: forestalling the possibility of creating a Palestinian region that can be self-sufficient.
\nOver the years, Peace Now has repeatedly warned that the settlers, with the massive assistance of government officials who are clearly operating against the law, are engaged in expanding and establishing a web of settlements in the occupied territories.\u00a0 This activity, which involves establishing new settlements \u201cout of thin air\u201d under the guise of constructing new neighborhoods in existing settlements, educational institutions, acclimatization farms and dummy antennas, reached its peak during two separate periods:\u00a0 the first was between 1997-1999, while the second occurred during 2001-2002.
\nDespite the fact that this phenomenon significantly changed the map of the West Bank, it only received much deserved public attention over the past few years.\u00a0 Media attention was able to bring public pressure to such a peak that Prime Minister Sharon was forced to appoint Attorney Talia Sasson to examine the scope of the phenomenon and the involvement of various government officials in this phenomenon.\u00a0 In March 2005, Talia Sasson submitted her conclusions in a report containing over 300 pages.<\/p>\n

For the summary of the report in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Road Map<\/a>, Israel is committed to dismantling all of the outposts established after February 2001.<\/p>\n

To date, Peace Now has\u00a0counted<\/a>\u00a0approximately 50 outposts which, according to this criterion, should have already been dismantled and disbanded over two years ago.\u00a0 For a list of the outposts in English please\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In order to read more about outposts, see the article in English by Dror Etkes, head of Peace Now\u2019s Settlement Watch project,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOutpost\u201d is a term for describing how the settlers \u201cpull the wool over our eyes\u201d by establishing settlements despite the fact that, in 1996, the government of Israel pledged not to build any more of them. In reality, outposts are new settlements.\u00a0 Today, there are more than 100 outposts throughout the West Bank. Around 50… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2513,2511,16],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-13490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outposts-en","category-reports-en","category-settlement-watch","tag-illegal-outposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13497,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions\/13497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}