Funds transfered by government ministries were used by West Bank council heads to finance illegal settlement activity
Attorney Talia Sasson, who is in the process of completing her report on settlers' outposts in the West Bank, has the reputation of being thorough and professional. It is likely, therefore, that she has came across a copy of a sharp letter sent in the Spring of 1997 by then-attorney general Elyakim Rubinstein to chief military prosecutor Brigadier-General Uri Shoham and Central Command commander Uzi Dayan.
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Every illegal outpost started with a large truck hauling a trailer through the West Bank. An examination of the squatters' modus operandi must have led Sasson to the key question: Who, over the years, has instructed the IDF officers, who have complete control of the area, to permit hundreds of semi-trailer trucks to arrive unhindered at their destinations.
In August 1999 the IDF Civil Administration's legal adviser, Shlomo Politis, wrote to then-Central Command chief Moshe Ya'alon. Politis said that in the case of moving trailers to illegal outposts, one hand of the authorities did not know what the other was doing. He told Ya'alon, the commander in charge of the West Bank, of cases in which settlers who received demolition orders for illegal structures had also received permits to move the mobile structures to the same outposts. The permits were signed by the Civil Administration officer in charge of infrastructure.
Haaretz