Elements in the PM's office say that a "wave of outpost uprootings" will begin shortly. They said that it will begin before the U.S. Presidential elections, but that the timing is only incidental.
At the same time, Atty. Talia Sasson of the State Prosecution has been appointed to write up a judicial opinion on how to facilitate the legal evacuation of Jews who wish to establish outposts in Judea and Samaria. "We need to find new legal ways to act against them," sources "close to the case" say. Sasson is expected to complete her work within 60 days.
Among the issues to be reviewed by Sasson are the exact amount of outposts, their situations and circumstances, how they are funded, and what legal avenues exist to prevent citizens from establishing new outposts.
Though extreme left-wing MK Yossi Sarid says that it's merely a "trick" by Sharon to stall for time, others lamented the fact that similar measures are not being taken to deal with illegal Arab construction in Judea and Samaria.
One of the measures being considered against the Jewish outposts is the cutting off of utilities. Sharon hopes that this will expedite their removal by causing them to collapse on their own, instead of having to send in security forces to remove residents forcibly. Numerous IDF soldiers who participated in previous evacuations of the outposts complained to their commanders that the experience took a heavy emotional toll upon them, and that they hadn't joined the army to engage in such activities. Yesha Council leaders decried the cutting off of water to pioneering Jewish families.
Following the Wye Plantation agreement in late 1998, Sharon - then a minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government, exhorted the Yesha residents, "Let everyone get a move on and take some hilltops! Whatever we take, will be ours, and whatever we don't take, will not be ours!"
At the same time, Atty. Talia Sasson of the State Prosecution has been appointed to write up a judicial opinion on how to facilitate the legal evacuation of Jews who wish to establish outposts in Judea and Samaria. "We need to find new legal ways to act against them," sources "close to the case" say. Sasson is expected to complete her work within 60 days.
Among the issues to be reviewed by Sasson are the exact amount of outposts, their situations and circumstances, how they are funded, and what legal avenues exist to prevent citizens from establishing new outposts.
Though extreme left-wing MK Yossi Sarid says that it's merely a "trick" by Sharon to stall for time, others lamented the fact that similar measures are not being taken to deal with illegal Arab construction in Judea and Samaria.
One of the measures being considered against the Jewish outposts is the cutting off of utilities. Sharon hopes that this will expedite their removal by causing them to collapse on their own, instead of having to send in security forces to remove residents forcibly. Numerous IDF soldiers who participated in previous evacuations of the outposts complained to their commanders that the experience took a heavy emotional toll upon them, and that they hadn't joined the army to engage in such activities. Yesha Council leaders decried the cutting off of water to pioneering Jewish families.
Following the Wye Plantation agreement in late 1998, Sharon - then a minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government, exhorted the Yesha residents, "Let everyone get a move on and take some hilltops! Whatever we take, will be ours, and whatever we don't take, will not be ours!"