Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits
Jewish settlements in West Bank have been allocated 38 percent of 1.3 million dunams of Israeli state land.Over the past 33 years the Civil Administration has allocated less than one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians, compared to 38 percent to settlers, according to the agency’s own documents submitted to the High Court of Justice.
The West Bank includes 1.3 million dunams ?approximately 325,000 acres? of “state land,” most of which is allocated to Jewish settlements.
The declared policy of the previous Netanyahu government was to remove Jewish construction from private Palestinian land in the West Bank and to approve all construction on state lands.
According to the classification of the Civil Administration, a small amount of “state land” was registered with the Jordanian authorities until 1967. But most declared “state land” was declared as such after 1979.
The need for such a declaration emerged in October 1979, when the High Court struck down as unconstitutional the state’s practice of seizing Palestinian land, ostensibly for “military needs” but in practice in order to establish Jewish settlements.
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I don't want a debate at the moment, just an explanation.
Does "Israeli state land" mean land held in trust for Jewish nationals, given that Jewish is the only nationality recognized as belonging to Israel? (That is, Israel demands that Palestinians recognize it as being a Jewish state, in the exact sense that the Jewish people, wherever they might live in the world, collectively form the only state recognized nationality. I needn't repeat that this kind of nationality without borders isn't how the term 'nationality' is usually understood w.r.t. a country, in legalese, but I'll repeat it anyway. Because it's a special case.)
What is the position of liberal-Zionism with respect Israel's annexation of the vast majority of the West Bank (which Israel calls "Judea and Samaria"
, such that it designates this land to be "Israeli territory" and it has become part of "Israel's state land"? What Israeli liberal-Zionist political parties have put this in writing?
What do liberal-Zionists consider to be the status of non-Israeli, non-Jewish, inhabitants of the West Bank? What rights do they have? What rights should they have? (Are these rights explained as in, "a liberal country using illiberal means", or "equal before the law except unequal when expeditious" as one "liberal-Zionist" has argued?) Since Israel refuses to grant that a Palestinian state exists, with however indefinite a border (after a half-century of outright theft has left nothing), and the USA concurs, should the non-Israeli and non-Jewish and in-effect-non-person inhabitants of the West Bank have any say in the disposition of the lands of Judea and Samaria (might as well use Israeli terminology, Israel has the nukes, and the US for backup)? Or do you think they should be pissed on with impunity by a liberal-Zionist stream?
I'm not asking for "liberal-Zionists" to answer the questions exactly as phrased. Perhaps I'm missing some nuance that "liberal-Zionists" depend on. shira, King-David (aka Dave), oberliner, et al, I invite you to explain.
