Illegal construction work resumes in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
Photo by Azmi Badeer / Yesh Din
Only a few months after Israel carried out the High Court ruling to evacuate the illegal settlement buildings of Uplana, which was built on private Palestinian property, the State is back in court working to retroactively legalize illegal structures. As new illegal construction resumes only a few meters from the evacuated buildings , the state is claiming that old military expropriation orders in effect prior to a 1979 court order, known as the Elon Moreh ruling , allow for construction on privately owned Palestinian land.
Press Release Yesh Din:
The state wants to officially renew building on private Palestinian land in 40 settlements built on land seized by military orders before 1979.
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By pursuing this policy the state is renouncing the Elon Moreh ruling. The decision has momentous international consequences because it violates commitments the government of Israel made in the “road map” and at the Annapolis summit.The state’s response to the court indicates that the political echelon intends to legalize the construction – which is on private Palestinian land – since there is nothing to preclude it from doing so in this case (according to the state’s position) in order to exhaust the full building potential of Beit El and preserve the interests that led to the establishment of Beit El; furthermore, the seizure order was issued before the Elon Moreh ruling was given.
This means that in 40 existing settlements built on the basis of military seizure orders (orders issued for temporary military-security needs) where construction continued after the Elon Moreh ruling, the state’s position is that exhaustion of the planning channels should be permitted. The state concedes that issuing new military seizure orders to build civilian settlements has been forbidden since the Elon Moreh ruling was issued, but maintains there is no preclusion to realizing those that were issued before the ruling for civilian construction, even if it is not military (and cannot be military).
Haim Erlich, Yesh Din executive director: “In its eagerness to pursue building for Jews only, the state continues to violate the right to private property of the Palestinians it is obligated to protect, while trampling on Supreme Court rulings that were accepted by Israeli governments through the ages, and in blatant violation of international law.”
The government is working to enable new construction and has retroactively approved existing construction on private Palestinian land in more than 40 settlements, based on old expropriation orders that were issued for military purposes.
The efforts were revealed in the state’s response to a High Court of Justice petition filed by the Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights organization regarding the non-enforcement of demolition orders issued for structures built in Beit El on private land.
In the submission to the court, the State Prosecution acknowledged that some 40 Israeli communities in the West Bank were erected totally or partially based on expropriation orders for private land issued for military purposes.
The prosecution admitted that construction continued in these communities even after the Elon Moreh ruling of 1979, which stipulated that the army had power to confiscate land only for pure military purposes, and not for civilian settlements. But, the state argued, that ruling “does not prevent exploiting the potential of these communities.”
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The petition was submitted by attorneys Michael Sfard, Shlomo Zaharia, Avisar Lev and Mohammed Shaqier, from the Yesh Din legal team.
Ynet quotes Dror Etkes, and activist who documents illegal settlement construction:
“It seems that in order for these phenomena to stop, the State of Israel would have to undergo brain marrow transplant so as to replace the criminal DNA that has taken over the government.”
It hardly matters at this stage. The endgame will come when the world realises what the Israelis have done in Gaza. Made it uninhabitable.
And then it will be irrelevant how many Jews make Erez Israel hashlemah.
Because it will just be a massive hash. And that will be the end of Zionism.
RE: “The state wants to officially renew building on private Palestinian land in 40 settlements . . . By pursuing this policy the state is renouncing the Elon Moreh ruling. The decision has momentous international consequences because it violates commitments the government of Israel made in the “road map” and at the Annapolis summit.” ~ Yesh Din Press Release
MY COMMENT: A “nation of laws”, my ass! ! !
RE: “As new illegal construction resumes only a few meters from the evacuated buildings . . .” ~ Annie Robbins
• HYPOTHETICAL COMMENT AT YNET NEWS MADE BY SOMEONE FROM CALABASSAS, CALIFORNIA: “Illegal” construction? NONSENSE! Any and all construction
by Jewsfor Jews in Judea and Samaria is absolutely legal because G_d gave all of that land to us Jews. It is part of G_d’s covenant with us!And don’t give me any guff about needing to get a stinking “permit” from the Israeli Civil Administration. G_d didn’t say anything about us Jews needing a silly “permit” in order to build! It’s not in the covenant!
• AND
PASTORCHARLATAN JOHN HAGEE CONCURS! ! !SEE: “A Serial Obstructionist”, By Rachel Tabachnick, ZEEK – Forward, 3/15/10
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to zeek.forward.com
P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA [Land of Israel]:
SOURCE – link to en.wikipedia.org
Dickerson
I was talking to a Sephardi Israeli the other day who finds it appalling that Ashkenazi Jews make pilgrimage at Rosh Hashana to the grave of Rav Nachman in Uman, Ukraine because “there is no possible way that Ukraine could be more holy than Erez Israel”.
This is definitely an ‘only in Israel’ legal argument.
More to the point, the Netanyahu administration probably wants to ram this through while the Obama administration is paralyzed by the upcoming election. It might prove trickier after the second tuesday in November.
the Netanyahu administration probably wants to ram this through while the Obama administration is paralyzed by the upcoming election
yeah,while they are screaming about iran, sucking all the air out of the room, the states busy-bodies are furiously tirelessly working away trying to gobble up as much as they can. voracious appetites. makes me wonder how much Regavim is involved dodging the legal bullets.
link to mondoweiss.net
i liked the quote about the brain marrow transplant.
RE: “i liked the quote about the brain marrow transplant.” ~ Annie Robbins
AND RE: “It seems that in order for these phenomena to stop,
the State of Israel would have to undergo brain marrow
transplant . . .” ~ Dror Etkes
MY REPLY: I vote for a radical, bifrontal lobotomy to scramble Israel’s brains for good! – link to google.com
Bastards.
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I don’t know about you folk, but I have to wonder how is this settlement building going to end unless either the Israeli Citizens vote out Netanyahu, Danon, Lieberman and at least most of the rest of the Likuds? OR, in the absence of that near impossibility taking place A U.S. President is going to have buck the Israeli Lobby AIPAC stranglehold in the US, Congress and the Senate, as well as the very loud Christian Fundi’s led by Hagee’s CUFI and threaten to end the billions in aide to Israel unless those damn Settlements are stopped completely.
Its going to take some major and drastic changes creating some rough times to get the Israeli Leadership to stop this intransigence. I don’t see it happening unless they are forced to do it, they’ll never come to fairness on their own and the longer this goes the worse it will get for the victimized Palestinians.
Just imagine being a Palestinian whos home was destroyed or their farm taken for “Military Purposes” and then learn that it was taken permanently away for Jewish settlements. All this while knowing that US Christians send money to assist the Jewish settlers on that land. Just imagine if anything similar happened in 40 locations in the US to 1000′s of we US Citizens, would we be able to have patience and not get violent about our homes and lands being stolen from us ? No add that these kinds of theft have been going on since the Palestinians were run out of their homes in Jerusalem and all over what is now Israel. Frankly Its a miracle to me that the Palestinians are at all peacefull toward these thieves and settlers, and I’ve only touched the highlights of the miriad of mind bending and enraging aspects of daily life for Palestinians under the Israeli Occupation, Settlement building and apartheid system they face daily.
The US has paid dearly for supporting the Israeli Leaderships unfairness for all these years and this cannot go on and on and on, without things getting much worse where our relations with the middle east in particular and in the eyes of the rest of the world also. THIS HAS GOT TO BE BROUGHT TO AN END. (sadly I don’t see Obama developing enough spine to bring it about, it would be great for the sake of the Pal’s and the Israeli Citizens, but I just don’t see it happening under his second term)
Ctwosides says: “…Just imagine being a Palestinian whos home was destroyed or their farm taken for “Military Purposes” and then learn that it was taken permanently away for Jewish settlements…”
I doubt if they would be surprised at all. Why would they have any illusions about the nature of the Jewish state?
Why would land need to be seized under Military Orders if there is no Occupation.
Will Justice Levy and crew be up in arms about this.
Israel continues to tighten the noose around it,s own neck.
You gotta love it.
When will Obama grow some balls and do something about this rogue state.
Or is he also just standing back watching Israel commit suicide.
Israel continues to expand their apartheid state.. Normalized Apartheid
It’s the remorseless logic of the organ. But the organ can’t see very far ahead and is oblivious to danger.
Funny how Jim Crow laws in the United States and apartheid laws in South Africa start to look almost benign in comparison. They at least had codified laws and a constitution, however reprehensible, to adhere to.
Israel has no constitution, and its laws are applied unevenly to all the people under its control, so when its Supreme Court can’t even enforce its own rulings, it might qualify as as a mongrel form of ‘democracy’, but certainly isn’t ‘civilized’.
>> Israel seeks to resume building on private Palestinian land in 40 West Bank settlements
This is worth getting riled up about.
And destroy 740 dunums of Palestinian land to build a Jews only access road. What next, a burning Star of David on someone’s lawn?