redcarpet wrote:You can't 'seize' land that is already under your state's occupation. Plus there is such a thing as clearing an area for military purposes. Remember the settlement freeze is still in place. There has been no real expansion for 3 years now. And the PA is already rubbish law and order which an occupying power is responsible for.
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of course you can, the west bank is under military occupation, but when land either privately owned or in use by the population is fenced off by troops and the population denied access f course the correct description is the land is 'seized'. no real expansion. wrong there has been expansion. Israel rejects that it is an occupying power, if Israel is to claim the privileges of an occupying power it should be also required to bear responsibilities, which it does not. Israel has a long history of sizing land for 'military purposes' and then turning it over to settlers.
this land sizeure is wrong. people find all sorts of excuses but either the west bank is part of Israel or it it is not. according to international law it is not. any settlement is illegal, and land can only be seized for defined purposes and returned to the population afterwards. if it is part of Israel and israel is free to do what it likes, the the population of the west bank is entitled to be Israeli citizens. Israel has it cake and eats it too. it takes the land but denies the population any political rights it is wrong.