PMW Bulletin May 20, 2013
Official PA daily: Israel's building in its Negev region is also a
"settlement"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9034
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

The Palestinian Authority daily recently published a report attacking
Israel's program to resolve questions of land ownership in Israel's southern
desert region, called the Negev. The PA daily refers to Israeli building in
the Negev as additional "settlement":

"The Netanyahu government has not decided to freeze settlement, but rather
has transferred it to the Negev."

This PA daily report shows the PA's rejection of Israelis living and
developing land anywhere in Israel. For years, Palestinian Media Watch has
documented that the PA as policy often defines all of Israel as "Palestine"
or "occupied Palestine."

The following is the official PA daily's report calling Israeli construction
in the Negev "a settlement":

"The order given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze
construction in West Bank settlements may pave the way to a thaw in the
frozen peace process, but it does not mean that Israel has acceded to
Palestinian, Arab, or international demands. Quite the opposite. It
constitutes a settlement trick... At the same time the so-called
'Ministerial Committee for Legislation' approved the outlines of the 'Prawer
Law' that will bring about the expropriation of hundreds of thousands of
acres and the uprooting of 35,000 Arab citizens from their homes and lands
in the Negev. The significance is that the Netanyahu government has not
decided to freeze settlement, but has transferred it to the Negev. This will
bring about an explosion and a confrontation with the Palestinians in the
interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs in Israel).
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 8, 2013]