Israeli Supreme Court demands settlement removals.

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Israel's Supreme Court has rejected the state's request to postpone the dismantling of a large illegal West Bank settler enclave until 2015, dealing a blow to the settler movement's hopes to keep dozens of such outposts standing.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's pro-settler coalition had asked the court to let Migron's 300 settlers stay put until new homes would be built for them on a nearby West Bank hilltop over the next three years.

The court ruled that accepting the request would be tantamount to flouting the rule of law.

"The obligation to fulfill the [earlier] ruling is not a matter of choice," the court said.

"The Israeli high court upheld today the rule of law and indicated that the law applies to all," Sfard said.

"I hope that the government and the settlers will not try to pull any tricks and will not try to circumvent this important decision, and that the residents of Migron will evacuate the illegal outpost peacefully, so that the land will be returned after a decade to its legal owners, my clients."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/201232516146607170.html