Israel Tries to Save West Bank Settlements it Vowed to Dismantle ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - April 10, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM —Israel's government is scrambling to find ways to save some of the unauthorized West Bank settlements it once promised to dismantle, including some that are built partly on private Palestinian land. The new strategy seeks to retroactively legalize some outposts and, in other cases, relocate Jewish settlers to nearby land that is not privately owned, in effect creating what critics say would be the first new West Bank settlements in years. » Read more