5.26.2009

Bibi thinks dismantling a few settlements is a small price to pay to start WW III

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel would dismantle nearly two dozen wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank in the next few weeks if the U.S. drops its objections to continued building in existing, government-sanctioned settlements, officials said.

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TEL AVI - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to tear down illegal Jewish settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in return for US backing on its proposed military strikes against Iran, local media reported on Tuesday.

Netanyahu told his right-wing Likud faction on Monday that Israel would have to dismantle what it considers illegal outposts, as demanded by Washington, since the issue of Iran was more important, newspaper reports said.

"I identify the danger and that's why I am willing to take unpopular steps such as evacuating outposts. The Iranian threat is above everything," the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot quoted Netanyahu as saying.

"There are things on which you have to compromise."

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