There has been increasing talk in Israel since October about the illegal outpost of Amona, near the city of Ramallah in center of the West Bank, as Israeli right-wing parties threatened Nov. 29 to withdraw from the government should the outpost be ordered evacuated, based on the Nov. 14 Israeli Supreme Court decision. The Amona outpost is illegal as it is built on private Palestinian lands.
Israeli writer Ariel Kahana said in a Nov. 23 article on NRG that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had held meetings back in October with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to discuss the possibility to set up a land arbitration system in line with the so-called Cypriot model.
