{"id":32896,"date":"2019-07-22T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=32896"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:25:43","slug":"return-of-the-outpost-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/return-of-the-outpost-method","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Outpost Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>32 new unauthorized settlements and Farms settlements under the Netanyahu government<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 823px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Truck_outpost.jpg\" alt=\"A truck converted into permanent living quarters in Negohot Farm outpost, 24 October 2018\" width=\"813\" height=\"457\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck converted into permanent living quarters in Negohot Farm outpost, 24 October 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/maahazim-english_full.pdf\"><strong>Click here to read the full report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><u>Summary<\/u><\/h3>\n<p>Quietly, far from public attention, facts on the ground are being created that are changing Israel\u2019s political position in the West Bank, without official decisions and in defiance of the law. Settlement organizations are establishing new outposts, or unauthorized settlements, with the direct assistance of the authorities and often financed by public funds. The government, for its part, encourages such construction by promising support and working to legalize these outposts, while refraining from enforcing the law against them. many of the outposts are farm for agriculture or seep pasture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Since 2012, 32 new outposts have been established, the majority of which after President Trump was elected.\u00a0<\/strong>All of the new outposts (except one) are located deep inside the West Bank, in areas that Israel will likely have to evacuate within the framework of a permanent agreement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>21 of the outposts are agricultural farms<\/strong>, which take over large areas for pasturing and cultivation, while their settlers work to remove Palestinian shepherds and farmers from the vicinity.<\/li>\n<li>Around some of the new outposts there is\u00a0<strong>an increase in violence and attacks against Palestinians.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The outposts are established in an organized fashion\u00a0<strong>with the involvement of the local settlement authorities, Amana and the Settlement Division.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At the same time, the government is working to retroactively legalize existing outposts. To date,\u00a0<strong>15 outposts have been legalized<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cregularized\u201d) as independent settlements or &#8220;neighborhoods&#8221; in existing settlements. At least\u00a0<strong>35 additional outposts are undergoing the legalization process<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>One of the outposts established in 2012, Kerem Re&#8217;im, has already been legalized, thus becoming an official settlement with nearly 70 families living in dozens of permanent homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Significant parts of the information in this report were first exposed by Dror Etkes of www.keremnavot.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace Now:\u00a0<\/strong><em>The Netanyahu government has established dozens of new settlement outposts quietly, without any public debate, in order to take over more territory and prevent the two-state solution. This comes despite talk of regulating the legal status of the more established outposts, in part to create a semblance of law enforcement in the West Bank. When the government and Knesset declare that they will do anything to legalize any unauthorized construction by settlers and even steal private land, settlers see this correctly as an incentive to build more outposts. This outpost method has consequently become a choice tactic in the process of de facto annexation of the West Bank, and it is leading us to a permanent single undemocratic state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/maahazim-english_full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Farm-Outposts-ENG-June-2019.pdf\">Click here to read the full report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32900\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts.png 1344w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts-115x161.png 115w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts-768x1075.png 768w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Map_of_new_outposts-330x462.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>32 new unauthorized settlements and Farms settlements under the Netanyahu government Click here to read the full report Summary Quietly, far from public attention, facts on the ground are being created that are changing Israel\u2019s political position in the West Bank, without official decisions and in defiance of the law. Settlement organizations are establishing new&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/return-of-the-outpost-method\" title=\"Read Return of the Outpost Method\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2513,2511,16],"tags":[3141,45,1335,2818,2825],"class_list":["post-32896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outposts-en","category-reports-en","category-settlement-watch","tag-amichai","tag-illegal-outposts","tag-legalization","tag-outpost-legalization","tag-outposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32896","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32896"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39289,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32896\/revisions\/39289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}