Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a 2017 law that would have allowed for the retroactive legalization of thousands of Jewish homes built on occupied West Bank land privately owned by Palestinians, a law so provocative that few believed when it was passed that it would survive judicial review.
The decision distinguishes US Supreme Court cases allowing the government to transfer property from one private party to another for almost any "public purpose."
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In the past few months Haaretz has published a number of disturbing stories about the way the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division has been stealing both Palestinian and state land. When necessary the agency, which is funded by the state, does not even hesitate to deceive settlers in the pursuit of its sacred goal: putting up more buildings in the settlements.
It’s Time to Investigate, and Then Shut Down, This Quasi-governmental Agency, Which Steals Both State and Private Palestinian Lands to Realize Its Sacred Goal of Settlement Construction
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The High Court of Justice ruled that the yeshiva sits on private Palestinian property, but farmers from the neighboring village of Burqa have been barred from accessing their lands there.
State Department spokesman says administration's stance against unilateral steps 'certainly' includes Israeli government's effort to legalize Homesh in northern West Bank
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