PAGE A17 Israel to Raze Some Outposts Israel's cabinet pledged to dismantle two dozen illegal settlement outposts established in the West Bank since 2001.
England, however, received the New Netherland (New York, New Jersey) and some outposts in Africa from the Dutch, and recovered Antigua, Montserrat, and St. Kitts, in the West Indies, from France.
Many Israelis say that even if some outposts are removed, the settlers have succeeded in diverting the debate from the larger settlements in those territories.
Military officials were pressing to keep some outposts directly over the border after the withdrawal, an idea that he, a former general, squelched.
They have instead tried, so far unsuccessfully, to negotiate with the settlers, hoping to authorize some outposts inside the barrier if the settlers voluntarily leave the others.
Israel has begun taking down some outposts -- trailers clustered to extend settlers' grip on the West Bank -- but settlers have continued erecting new ones.
The substitute write-in ballot is also available from embassies and consulates, but voting assistance groups say some outposts are running out of forms.
Along with the photographer Joël van Houdt and an interpreter, I drove down to Logar and linked up with the A.N.A. there, intending to get to some outposts in the south.
Mr. Fleischer then pointed to a development that the White House welcomed today with relief: Israel's dismantling of some outposts near West Bank settlements, as stipulated in the peace plan.
(Rabin considered most of the settlers who began streaming into the West Bank shortly after the Six-Day War to be misguided, along with government programs designed to encourage them. He did think that some outposts were essential to Israeli security, and therefore important to hold on to).
