2-7-2017 Israel's land theft law is just the tip of the settlement iceberg – Haggai Matar +972

https://972mag.com/israels-land-theft-law-is-just-the-tip-of-the-settlement-iceberg/125071/

Anyone who condemns Israel's new law authorizing the theft of private Palestinian land, while forgetting the mass theft engendered by the settlement enterprise as a whole, is doing an injustice to the fight for equality in this land.The fundamental problem with the settlements — what makes the occupation an occupation — is the military regime that implements two separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians. A shared existence is possible in this land, whether in a single state whose subjects are all citizens with equal rights, or two states that live in peace side by side, or in a federation. The problem is the theft and unilateral policy making which arises from the perception of Jewish supremacy and exclusivity in every area, backed up by military force…

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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