Israel's Campaign of Targeted Assassanations Apparently is Working

[Chris Alger]

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"Land confiscations only began after Arab terrorist attacks on Jewish villages started after 1967....

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What a ridiculous lie. "Israel" is a synonym for "land confiscation." Nasser Abufarha: "The Palestinian land confiscation for Jewish settlement started well before the establishment of the state Israel. The British Authority in Palestine was preparing the country for the creation of the Jewish national homeland. The mandatory authority introduced the Woods and Forest Ordinance in 1920, which was designed to confiscate lands that were largely utilized as grazing grounds by the Bedouin community and the rural population. These lands were then classified as state forest owned by the state. ... With the establishment of the state of Israel on May 15, 1948, these lands were regarded as Israeli state lands. As Israel took control of all the territories that were allocated to the Jewish state in addition to nearly 50% of the territories allocated to the Arab state under the 1947 UN partition plan, a total of 15,025,000 dunum were considered state lands. These lands include the lands that were classified as forest by the British Authority and any other lands that were not titled to individuals i;e village lands (Jiryis, 1973). The state also implemented measures and passed various laws that were employed to transfer the land ownership to the Jewish agencies and settlements."

In 1947, Zionists owned less than 7% of Palestine. With the establishment of the Jewish state, Zionists were able to use state power, violence and terror to steal most of the rest. "As a result of the 1948 war and the armistice agreements Israel reached with Egypt and Jordan, Israel controlled 20.5 million dunums of the total land of Palestine, representing 78% of the land. The vast majority of these lands were owned by Palestinian residents who were evacuated from their villages or who fled their homes during the war." Abufarha. Note that this 78% does not include the occupied territories, which were next on the menu.

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and even then, land was confiscated only for military defence purposes and villager protection."

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If you would limit your lying to facts which aren't refuted with a moment's search on the internet, you might not appear to be so foolish.

"Israel has used a complex legal and bureaucratic mechanism to take control of more than fifty percent of the land in the West Bank. This land has been used mainly to establish settlements and create reserves of land for the future expansion of the settlements." B'Tselem

"During the first 6 months of 1999 alone, Israel confiscated 2500 acres of land for the purpose of settlements and their infrastructure, and a total of 3500 acres have been leveled in order to facilitate the further expansion of settlements and bypass road construction." MIFTAH