ISRAEL

Haaretz: Enough playing games
The dismantling of outposts episode is turning into
a parody. For every "unauthorized outpost"
ostensibly dismantled by the IDF, two others are
constructed by settlers. Just like the former were
mainly uninhabited, so are the latter. The game is
one of appearances in an attempt to make a
favorable impression on public opinion. The
director-general of the Yesha Council of Jewish
settlements, Adi Mintz, told Haaretz yesterday
that the struggle he and his colleagues are waging
"is an attempt to sear into the [public]
consciousness what it means to evacuate Jews from
their homes." To judge from public opinion polls,
this attempt has failed miserably so far.