- 20 Dec 2015 00:49
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The compensation is a key provision to provide redress to Israeli Absentee owners, based on methodology proposed by the UN itself. It's basically fulfilling a legal obligation of the Israeli state.
And the original intent of the Absentee Property Law is not dissimilar to laws allowing for the state to take over unused property in other countries. Indeed, that is also why the Israeli Supreme Court took a very restrictive view on when could it be used in east Jerusalem, to the point of stating that it could be used against Jews and that it can't think of a legitimate case in which it could be used, and even then those affected would have a right to be compensated if they are Israeli residents.
As for the admissions committee law, I had not read the text back when it was passed in 2011, but it seems the law actually forbids using race, religion, ethnicity, etc as a criterion to bar access to the cooperative using those committees. The use of the "social fabric" provision would thus not be able to rest on that, at least, as such I'm not sure of how easy it would be to target Arabs using the law. That said, it does seem to be able to be abused, but it is also true that court rulings could help to provide precedents to prevent it.
pugsville wrote:The argument is used that it COULD be used against Jews is part of a "Reductio ad Absurdum" showing how the ridiculously the law would be be if applied to Jews. There is no hint at all at any stage that that law HAS been applied to Jews.
You have a single case of it being applied to Jews please post and prove me wrong.
The sole intent of introducing the law was to take land from Arabs and give it to Jews, it was never intended to be fair, reasonable or enforced in any other than a brutal racist law to take from the Palestinians. the Compensation and some window dressing has been added to fob off outside observers.
In General the Israeli legal system just fails Israeli-Arabs. Winning in court means nothing in the Authorities deliberately act in defence of the ruling. Let alone in the West Bank.
The compensation is a key provision to provide redress to Israeli Absentee owners, based on methodology proposed by the UN itself. It's basically fulfilling a legal obligation of the Israeli state.
And the original intent of the Absentee Property Law is not dissimilar to laws allowing for the state to take over unused property in other countries. Indeed, that is also why the Israeli Supreme Court took a very restrictive view on when could it be used in east Jerusalem, to the point of stating that it could be used against Jews and that it can't think of a legitimate case in which it could be used, and even then those affected would have a right to be compensated if they are Israeli residents.
As for the admissions committee law, I had not read the text back when it was passed in 2011, but it seems the law actually forbids using race, religion, ethnicity, etc as a criterion to bar access to the cooperative using those committees. The use of the "social fabric" provision would thus not be able to rest on that, at least, as such I'm not sure of how easy it would be to target Arabs using the law. That said, it does seem to be able to be abused, but it is also true that court rulings could help to provide precedents to prevent it.
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