A/HRC/22/63 Alignment and the Likud‖. Other points include: ―(A) The existence and development of settlements set up by the governments of Israel will be ensured, and the extent of their development will be determined by the government; (B) 5-6 settlements will be established within a year (…); (D) The establishment of new settlements will require approval by a majority of the cabinet ministers.‖ 45 (13 September) 1986 • Prime Minister Designate Yitzahk Shamir (1986 - 1988) addresses the Knesset to present the national unity Government in its second period and confirms the economic support to settlements: ―the government will seek to forge a ‗Zionist Economy.‘ An economy that will not be based only on solid economic principles, but also on the Zionist values which must be our guide, and among them the supreme value of settlement throughout Eretz-Israel.‖46 (20 October) 1988 • During the period 1988-1992, settlement activities accelerate rapidly and the number of settlements increase by more than 60% in line with the Hundred Thousand Plan.47 • Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (1988 - 1990) presents to the Knesset his basic policy guidelines, mirroring provisions of the Hundred Thousand Plan. Point 15 elaborates on the settlement policy as follows ―The existence and development of settlements set up by the governments of Israel will be ensured. An attached appendix … elaborates on various issues, whose execution will be agreed upon together with other issues in this framework. b. Between five and eight settlements will be established within a year. ... c. The settlements elaborated on in attached appendix will be established in subsequent years as per a timetable to be determined in an agreement between the prime minister and the vice premier, toward the conclusion of the first year. Point 20 refers to settlements as ―national preferential areas‖ for Government support ―20: The Government will assist sectors of nationalsocial preference, including the settlement sector (within the framework of the Recovery Plan), and [will assist] the populace of development areas.‖ 48 (22 December) 1992 • By 1992, following wide-scale confiscation of Palestinian land, the number of settlements had risen sharply to 120 inhabited by 100,500 settlers. 49 45 46 47 48 49 32 Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―Basic Policy Guidelines of the Government's Program, 13 September 1984.Volume 9-10: 1984-1988‖ www.mfa.gov.il Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―196 Statement in the Knesset by Prime Minister Designate Shamir- 20 October 1986, Volume 9-10: 1984-1988‖ www.mfa.gov.il Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem (ARIJ) ―Undermining Peace: ‗Israel‘s Unilateral Segregation Plans in the Occupied Palestinian Territory‘‖ 2003. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―Basic Policy Guidelines of the Government's Program- 22 December 1988, Volume 11-12: 1988-1992‖ www.mfa.gov.il Figures from Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, B’Tselem Land Grab May 2002