{"id":467,"date":"2004-12-28T00:27:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T06:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=467"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:57:08","slug":"israel-paints-colorful-west-bank-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Israel Paints Colorful West Bank Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this<\/a> certainly won’t be all the drab buildings I knew from Ft. Hood and Ft. Knox.<\/p>\n

A new army base going up in the northern part of the West Bank will be Israel’s most colorful, painted in a dazzling array of pink, brown, purple, light blue and orange, an army weekly reported.<\/p>\n

The current edition of “Bamahane,” a publication for soldiers, carries a small picture of the Jalameh base, going up near the Palestinian town of Jenin. It shows the stark structure of two-story cement blocks joined at right angles painted in eye-popping shades of orange and pink.<\/p>\n

“I’m sick of seeing the ugly and depressing colors of military buildings — always beige and gray,” the officer behind the artsy project, Capt. Itsik Koren, told the weekly. “I decided to do something different here.”<\/p>\n

The base is expected to be ready in two months. It will be home to a variety of units involved in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including infantry, roadblock guards, canine corps and field intelligence.<\/p>\n

The picture shows the base under construction on typically rocky, barren West Bank land, but Koren told the weekly that this too, will change. He plans to plant trees around the base.<\/p>\n

Israel is set to remove its four Jewish settlements from the northern West Bank next summer, but construction of the $5.76 million base, with its elaborate color scheme and landscaping, shows that the army is not planning to pull its forces out of the area anytime soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather than look for pictures of the base, I’ve decided to envision this color scheme applied elsewhere, such as the fine Israeli Merkava Mk-3:<\/p>\n

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So, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this certainly won’t be all the drab buildings I knew from Ft. Hood and Ft. Knox. A new army base going up in the northern part of the West Bank will be Israel’s most colorful, painted in a dazzling array of pink, brown, purple, light blue and orange, an army weekly reported. The current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}