Barak sanctions 8 major outposts

In a compromise deal reached with *some* leaders of the settler movement, Israeli Army will destroy 18 Jewish hamlets in Judea and Samaria, partially moving them inside the existing settlements, and legalize the eight outposts built on Jewish-owned land. Olmert doubts the US would accept the arrangement. The settler movement would likely disagree, too: no one meant spending seven years to establish the eight hamlets. The outposts’ value is a statement of staking the Jewish land, and dismantling the 18 outposts, even on paper, greatly impinges on that task.