{"id":138842,"date":"2014-09-03T19:32:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=138842"},"modified":"2014-09-03T19:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:32:53","slug":"fisk-israels-land-lives-theft-pure-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/fisk-israels-land-lives-theft-pure-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisk: Israel\u2019s \u2018land for lives\u2019 is theft. Pure and simple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World View: Israel takes land, Palestine loses land; that\u2019s the way it works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Fisk<\/em><\/p>\n

So a bit more of Palestine has slidden down the plughole. A thousand more acres of Palestinian land stolen by the Israeli government \u2014for \u201cappropriation\u201d is theft, is it not?<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and the world has made the usual excuses. The Americans found it \u201ccounter-productive\u201d to peace, which is probably a bit less forceful than its reaction would be if Mexico were to bite off a 1,000-acre chunk of Texas and decided to build homes there for its illegal immigrants in the US.<\/p>\n

But this is \u201cPalestine\u201d (inverted commas more necessary than ever) and Israel has been getting away with theft, albeit not on quite this scale \u2014 it is the biggest land heist in 30 years \u2014 ever since it signed up to the Oslo agreement in 1993.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Rabin-Arafat handshake, the promises and handovers of territory and military withdrawals, and the determination to leave everything important (Jerusalem, refugees, the right of return) to the end, until everyone trusted each other so much that the whole thing would be a doddle \u2014 no wonder the world bestowed its financial generosity upon the pair.<\/p>\n

But this latest land-grab not only reduces \u201cPalestine\u201d but continues the circle of concrete around Jerusalem to cut Palestinians off from both the capital they are supposed to share with Israelis and from Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

It was instructive to learn the Israeli-Jewish Etzion council regarded this larceny as punishment for the murder of three Israeli teenagers in June. \u201cThe goal of the murders of those three youths was to sow fear among us, to disrupt our daily lives and to call into doubt our right [sic] to the land,\u201d the Etzion council announced. \u201cOur response is to strengthen settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

This must be the first time that land in \u201cPalestine\u201d has been acquired not through excuses about security or land deeds \u2014 or on God\u2019s personal authority \u2014 but out of revenge.<\/p>\n

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World View: Israel takes land, Palestine loses land; that\u2019s the way it works Robert Fisk So a bit more of Palestine has slidden down the plughole. A thousand more acres of Palestinian land stolen by the Israeli government \u2014for \u201cappropriation\u201d is theft, is it not?\u00a0\u2014 and the world has made the usual excuses. The Americans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}