In the preliminary vote in the Knesset, Israel agreed 60-49 to back a bill that would retroactively legalize all illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, potentially stopping the evacuation of some 4,000 settlement units built on privately-owned Palestinian land.
For the bill to actually become law in Israel, it will have to pass the Knesset in three separate votes. The bill of uniformly opposed by the opposition, while only Benny Begin on Likud voted against the bill among coalition members.
The main impetus of the bill was to “save” the illegal outpost of Amona from evacuation, though ironically it appears too late to do that, as the Israeli High Court has ordered that outpost evacuated no later than the 25th, and the bill won’t impact that date.
Faced with the international backlash the legalization would bring, Israel has sought to moderate the provisions of the bill a bit, including now promising to give “compensation” to the Palestinian owners of the land if they can prove they own it. Either way, members of the far-right government are presenting this as the next step toward annexation, and it is likely many internationally will see it the same way.
give “compensation” to the Palestinian owners of the land if they can prove they own it.
Really? What proof will Israel accept in this regard? They have already shown their complete contempt for non-Israeli deeds of ownership such as were issued in the Ottoman period. Its not as if the Israeli regime has a policy of accepting pre-1949 paperwork.
Every 4 years when there is an election in the USA Israel makes these outrageous moves. They know the Americans are cowards and will not question them in and election year.
It really doesn’t matter the international law is clear. Israel has no right to colonize the West Bank.
Soon the world will hold Israel accountable.
What Israel does not accept is Muslim law that says all Israeli deeds are illegal because no land ever occupied by Muslims can ever be sold or occupied by anyone accept another Muslim.
No.
What Israel doesn’t obey is international law, by which its current occupation of these settlements remains illegal.
That has nothing to do with “muslim law.”