A/HRC/22/63 considered. While the plan is not officially adopted by the government, it provides the basis for future settlements.41 • Israeli Deputy Attorney General Yehudit Karp is appointed to head a team looking at investigations and legal actions taken with regards to Israeli settler violence and intimidation in OPT. The report‘s findings identified: an unusually high number of files closed for reasons of ―perpetrators unknown‖; an indulgent and forgiving attitude from the police towards the settlers; in some cases no sincere efforts to find culprits; no questioning of witnesses; unreasonable lengths of time and a lack of sensitivity in investigations. The report observes that, ―Israeli residents of the territories are given to understand that they are soldiers to all intents and purposes. [...] Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria [West Bank], explicitly relying on this assurance, refuse to cooperate with the police or provide information; they reject any contact with the police, basing themselves on ‗high-level policy‘ and declaring that they are under no obligation to cooperate in this matter.‖ 42 The report is not released by the Government of the day, only appearing in truncated form in 1984, 20 months after its submission by the Karp team. 1982 • Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1981-1983) presents the basic policy guidelines of his second tenure in the Government. The document largely mirrors the Sharon Plan and the plan to confer a permanent nature to settlements in the OPT: ―any suggestion for the dismantlement or removal of any settlement in which Israeli citizens and members of the Jewish people have settled and reside, will be rejected.‖43 (3 May) 1983 • The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture publishes the Hundred Thousand Plan aiming at building settlements in the West Bank through 2010. It includes an implementation plan 1983-1986. The plan aims at attracting 80,000 Israelis to live in 43 new Israeli settlements which would bring the total settler population to 100,000. Along with the construction of settlements, up to 450 km of new roads for settlers are to be paved.44 1984 • Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres (1984 - 1986) presents his basic policy guidelines to the Knesset in line with the Hundred Thousand Plan. The fourth point of the document establishes that ―there will be no change in the sovereignty over Judea, Samaria [West Bank] and the Gaza District except with the consent of the 41 42 43 44 B’Tselem‘s report, Land Grab,May 2002 The Karp Commission, Report on Investigations of Suspicions Against Israelis in Judea and Samaria: Conclusions (25 May 1982) Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―44 Statement in the Knesset by Prime Minister Begin upon the Presentation of his Second Government- 5 August 1981, 5 Aug 1981, VOLUME 7: 1981-1982‖ www.mfa.gov.il Ministry of Agriculture and the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization, ―Master Plan for Settlement for Judea and Samaria, Development Plan for the Region for 1983-1986‖ (Jerusalem, April 1983) 31