Haaretz Editorial: UN probe must take West Bank out of Israeli hands

[Scurrilous]

No UN investigative committee is needed to understand that the West Bank belongs to another people and its lands are not available to a Jewish and democratic state.

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"Not for nothing is the government going out of its way to thwart the UN Human Rights Council's decision to investigate the settlements.

The map of "available" land for settlements, revealed in Haaretz on Friday by Akiva Eldar, shows that while successive Israeli governments have trumpeted their desire to establish a sustainable Palestinian state alongside Israel, they have spared no economic effort or legal creativity to thwart this solution.

The map shows that for decades the Civil Administration has been seeking and mapping West Bank land that outdated Ottoman law defined as "state land." Much of this land has been used to set up settlements and even illegal outposts.

Some parcels of land have been named after settlements to be established in the future within certain local and regional councils in the West Bank - and beyond them. In some places, boundaries of "available" land spill beyond the separation fence, which Israel calls the security fence."

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/un-probe-must-take-west-bank-out-of-israeli-hands-1.421844


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