Al Ahram Weekly (Egypte) : "Dividing war spoils" par Salman Abu Sitta

Dividing war spoils

Israel's robbery of Palestinian property reaches new heights with Likud's latest illegal laws and subterfuges, writes Salman Abu Sitta*

While news headlines have been about demands for a freeze or suspension of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and jockeying at the sixth Fateh conference in Bethlehem, Israel has been putting into effect the most devastating operation since the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the Nakba of 1948. This new operation aims to eliminate irrevocably Palestinian rights and historical roots in Palestine.

Ironically, Arab and Palestinian leaderships remain oblivious to these cataclysmic developments. In particular, the Palestinian leadership, whose main duty is to defend Palestinian rights, is bogged down with the assignment of internal political posts and fighting what it sees as its primary enemy, Hamas.

The Zionist leadership in Israel felt bold enough to transform the ideological slogan of "Jewish Israel" into a reality on the ground. The Knesset passed a law on 3 August which allows the sale of "Absentee" Palestinian refugees' land to exclusively Jewish individuals and institutions anywhere in the world. Thus, the legal right of the original Palestinian owner to his land would be severed through creating a barrier between the owner and his property. The passing of the new law represents an audacious initiative by the current Israeli government that no previous Israeli government dared contemplate.

It will be recalled that the state of Israel was founded on the land it occupied in Palestine in 1948/49. The conquered area is 20,255 sq km which represents 78 per cent of the Mandatory Palestine. The land Israel occupied was delineated by the armistice line defined in....
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