http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/middleeast/settlers-of-west-bank-outpost-evicted.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
THIS IS HEARTBREAKING AND CRUEL AND APPEASEMENT….SHAME ON ISRAEL….SHAME,SHAME…..AND WHAT ABOUT ALL THE ILLEGAL ARAB BUILDING ON JEWISH LAND? NOT A PEEP FROM ISRAEL’S SUPREMES….RSK
MIGRON, West Bank — The police officers went door to door on Sunday morning in this hilltop settlement outpost east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, handing out final eviction notices and waiting patiently for residents to come out.
One young couple, the Altheims, left quietly, walking down the short path from their mobile home to their car, with a tattered Israeli flag flying from the front window, and then drove off. The police said they could hear a television on in the neighboring trailer, but when the officers knocked, nobody answered. By early afternoon, however, all 47 of the outpost’s families had gone, the police said, well ahead of Tuesday’s court-ordered deadline.
The evacuation of this outpost, one of the largest and most established of the wildcat Jewish settlements set up in the West Bank without Israeli government permits over the past 15 years, but often with government infrastructure aid, sent a mixed message about the future of settlements.
The evacuation was ordered by Israel’s Supreme Court because the outpost had been built on privately owned Palestinian land. Coming years after the Israeli military issued demolition orders against all the structures, it was seen by many as a modest victory for the rule of law.