Reply #7: So, let me get this right.

[Igel]

If a Muslim Arab from N. Israel decided to move to the West Bank and tried to buy land, whoever sold it to him would be committing high treason and could be executed for the act?

Then let's consider another scenario. Say a Jewish woman from France were to marry a French Palestinian emigre and the two of them, under his name, applied to move to the West Bank for their retirement. Suppose this was approved and as they arrived in Ramallah he dies in a car crash. They had sufficient funds for their retirement, plus her French retirement pension, and they had no children. She's now authorized to live in the West Bank--surely nobody would revoke the authorization of a widow--so there's no problem selling her land because that wouldn't contravene the fatwa. Right? After all, she may be Jewish but she's not Israeli.

That *is* what you're saying by insisting on "Israeli", as opposed to "Jew"?

Oddly, I think the judge would say otherwise--that the fatwa doesn't apply to the Israeli but does apply to the Frenchwoman.