Law(lessness)

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Injustice and stupidity in Jerusalem



In July 2004, Israel's cabinet adopted a decision that was neither made
public nor even published in the official government gazette, Reshumot: to
apply the Absentee Property Law to East Jerusalem, and thereby to confiscate
thousands of dunams of land from owners who live in the West Bank. The reason
for the decision was security-related: Since in practice, West Bank residents
are barred from entering East Jerusalem because of the intifada, the cabinet
decided to enact an official measure that would prevent any use of these
lands by their owners in the future as well, and would explicitly state that
henceforth their property belongs to the State of Israel.

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