Victory: Land Registration Begins

Remember what I wrote?

"Whereas the regime in TransJordan, known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the territory of that was to be part of the Mandate for Palestine which the League of Nations decided was to be reconstituted as the the Jewish national home, illegally occupied the area of Judea and Samaria in 1948 and then, in April 1950, annexed said territory, an act never recognized nor considered as legal, except by Great Britain;

and Whereas the rulers of said Kingdom distributed as gifts and bribes lands that were state and waste lands to private persons without receiving any recompense in the form of direct payments or taxes;

and Whereas in the case whereby those lands were never planted, or developed, or built upon or any instance of tangible ownership expressed;

that this Committee instruct state officials to review all such instances and then declare such transactions of property as null and void and  thus cause them revert to the original status as state and waste lands to be used for close settlement of Jews as directed by the Mandate decision in Article 6."

 

And today, victory, well, partial, anyway:

After 45 years of running the West Bank, the State of Israel plans to start compiling land registry records of assets controlled by settlers. The registry would bypass regular tabu land-listing processes, and appears designed to prevent Palestinians from appealing the validity of the ownership listings.

I wanted "Arab-owned land" to be investigated as well.

Maybe that's a next step.


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