Comptroller: Ministry gave $6.5m to illegal W. Bank outposts

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/423998.html

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"The Housing and Construction Ministry has funneled nearly $6.5 million to illegal settlement construction in the West Bank in the past three years, more than half of it to outposts Israel pledged to remove, according to the annual State Comptroller's report, released Wednesday.


State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg wrote in the report that the Housing Ministry has funneled money to settlement construction that had not received cabinet or Defense Ministry approval - as required by law - and in cases where land ownership was still under dispute.

The money was sent even as a branch of the Israeli military was "investing resources to track down and demolish illegal construction" in settlements and outposts, Goldberg wrote.

From January 2000 to June 2003, the Housing Ministry approved 77 contracts for construction projects in 33 West Bank areas, 18 of them unauthorized outposts, the report said. Of the $6.5 million given to illegal West Bank construction, about $4 million went to the outposts, the report said."

When you've got Moaz and Eiftam in charge?

They knew this months ago (Ha'aretz itself reported it), and still did nothing, right through the period when Israel was claiming to be adhering to the "settlement freeze" and "outpost removal" stipulations in the roadmap.

Hell, even the Israeli government admitted a few months ago that these maniacs are so extreme they're even publically stealing land from Palestinians (and gloating about it).

When the settlers claim they've got authorisation from the GOI, they're probably not lying.