The Netanyahu government is actively promoting an extraordinarily dangerous and destructive new
settlement plan which activists have dubbed “E-2” – a name that reflects the fact that the plan is as dangerous
and destructive to the two-state solution as the infamous E-1 project (against which the international community
has formed a united front). The E-2 project, which the settlers call Givat Eitam, involves thousands of new
units to be built south of Bethlehem, near the settlement of Efrat. Documents recently released by the
government in connection with a lawsuit brought by Peace Now show that the Netanyahu government is actively
moving ahead with this plan at this time, including working to seize new land on which it can build necessary
infrastructure to implement the project (a new major road).
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APN Briefing Call with Peace Now Settlement Watch Director
Hagit Ofran(August 25, 2016)
Peace Now report 1/13/16: High Court Rejects Nahla Landowners'
Petition Removes Legal Obstacle to Establish a Settlement in E2
Peace Now report January 2015: The new
settlement in a-Nahla – a significant threat to the two-state solution
September 2014 report by Peace Now, Kerem Navot, and Combatants for Peace: The New Settlement in E2 (Nahla) - A
Significant Threat to the Two States Solution
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US OFFICIAL REACTION
State Department briefing 8/16/16: “We’re concerned because these plans, if carried out, would have the effect of isolating Bethlehem from the southern West Bank, and that’s fundamentally…fundamentally incompatible with the pursuit of a two-state solution.”
IN THE MEDIA
Jerusalem Post 8/17: ‘Gush Etzion
settlement bloc to grow to half-a-million people’
Haaretz 8/14: Israel Lays Groundwork for Possible
Settlement Expansion Southeast of Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post 8/14: Road
needed to build 2,500 new settler homes in Efrat