ZIONIST ENTITY CABINET SPENDS $15 MILLION ON SETTLEMENTS
Gaza City, 19 Rabi’ul Awwal 1435/21 January 2014 (MINA) – So-called ‘Mateh Binyamin Regional Council’ in the occupied West Bank disbursed $15 million over five years to several settler houses, Israeli media reported.
According to a Haaretz report, ‘Mateh Binyamin’ receives tens of millions of shekels from government each year to help maintain the outposts, Al-Ray quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
The council has authority over several colonial outposts –rendered illegal by the Israeli government- including Adei Ad, Amona, Bnei Adam, Esh Kodesh, Haresha and Hayovel and houses 50,000 inhabitants.
The daily said the council allocated a total of 51 million shekels to outposts in its annual budgets from 2008-2012.
The Israeli occupation continues colonial settlement building in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem although Fatah-dominated Palestinian Liberation Organization demanded a freeze in settlement activity as a condition to resume negotiations.
Maariv: Settlement shall lose Israel its last stronghold in Europe
Israeli daily Maariv said in its Sunday edition that Germany is seeking to get rid of the historical burden towards the Jews and to make normal relations with Israel.
The daily interpreted this as yet another deterioration in the relations with the Europe and a drop of the last pro-Israel European strongholds, given Germany’s opposition to colonial settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
The relations started to deteriorate in September 2012, when Israel pinned hopes on Germany to thwart the Palestinian endeavor to gain membership in the UN.
However, Israel wasn’t able to recruit the European countries to realize that objective, the daily said, which angered the Israeli state.
It added that Germany has no trust in Netanyahu as one who believes in a two-state solution, arguing that he inherited his father’s belief that Israel’s land is undividable, which further adds to Israel’s isolation.
That belief, according to the Maariv, heralds Israel’s loss of Germany, its dearest ally in Europe. (T/P02/E1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
