Court: Why won't state combat illegal Palestinian construction?

The furthest back the majority of the so-called Palastinians can trace their roots is back to the Ottaman Empire. Unlike the Jews who can trace their historic roots back 3000 years in Israel - despite the attempts to genocide them in 1929 (before '67 or even '48) by the Arabs who wanted to try keep the land Jew - free. Cat got your tongue ???

The reason the demolition orders are not carried out is because all Israeli colonial settlements in occupied Palestine are illegal under International law as defined by the Geneva convention. If the Palestinian structures are demolished , it is only fair the Israeli colonist's structures are demolished as well. Further more it is next to impossible for a Palestinian to obtain a building permit from the Israeli occupation authorities as Palestinians are governed by Israeli military law and Israeli colonist are governed by Israeli civil law. In an Apartheid occupation, ones religion and ethnic background determine their individual rights and privaledges.

Perhaps the Jews who reside here in Canada are willing to exchange properties with the Palestinians in the West Bank. This way the Palestinians are saved from the inhuman conditions imposed under Israeli aparthied policies and the Jews can all make aliyah, which your Prime Minister wants. Crisis averted.

How did you come to the conclusion that only a "tiny minority" of the indigenous Middle Eastern population can trace their roots back to the land, but "many, many" settlers from Poland, Russia, Germany and Brooklyn allegedly have a stronger link? Alternatively, my great grandparents were Italian immigrants as well as most of my family, but we've lived in the US for generations. By your logic I am entitled to travel to Italy, drive out a family who may not be Italian and live on their land.

You said: "Settler have 0 roots in Palestine, and Palestinians have 0 root in Israel. Therefore, all Arabs should leave Yehuda and the Shomron and go back to 1: Gaza the original Biblical home of the Plishtim (from where the Latin name Palestinian comes) or 2: Jordan, the home of modern "Palestinian" Arabs." And perhaps most of the "Israeli Hebrews" should go back to Eastern Europe/Russia where they came from, so that the actual Hebrews - the Palestinians, descended from Canaanites/Philistinnes and even the Ancient Hebrews after being Arabized and Islamized - can live on their rightful land, no? P.S. The settler by the name of Avigdor Lieberman should go back to Moldova.

Can you trace your roots in the Holy Land more than 100 years back? I doubt it, but if you can, you are a tiny tiny minority. Lots and lots of Jews can trace their roots back to WB and centuries before despite that fact that Jordan cleared them all out from 1948 to 1967. Please don't try to play the legacy card.

It's a lovely tale you are telling, but you should get information about international law applied top the west bank. You are way off and satisfied with overused cliches.

You need a lesson in international law. There has never been an independent palestine. When the west bank was occupied by Jordan, jordanian law applied there, and no one was talkng of creating a palestine there. When Israel was attacked in 67 and gained control of the west bank they maintained jordanian law over the west bank.

Settler have 0 roots in Palestine, and Palestinians have 0 root in Israel. Therefore, all Arabs should leave Yehuda and the Shomron and go back to 1: Gaza the original Biblical home of the Plishtim (from where the Latin name Palestinian comes) or 2: Jordan, the home of modern "Palestinian" Arabs.

Settlers are Israeli citizens but under international law they are living in the west bank illegally, and therefore have no rights at all to build anything on Palestinian land. Settlers should be asking permission from the Palestinians to build there, or they should go home to Israel or Peru or Ethiopia or wherever they came from. Certainly it's hard to find a single settler who has roots in Palestine.

in Palestine when done by Israel. Israel should not interfere in Palestinians' plans to build on their own land. Period.

Israel has no right to demolish houses built by Palestinians on the West Bank. Simple as that. However, the settlers are Israeli citizens so it may have some rights over them.

sure there is no difference between the demolition order for an illegal construction, built on land that doesn't belong to the constructor who wasn't even born there, but chose voluntarily to live there for political reasons only, and thus has become a belligerent settler in occupied territory, which in itself is an illegal act under International law, and the demolition order for a construction which stands on land that belongs to the constructor who was born there and who had to built the construction illegally because he would never receive a construction permit for political reasons from the military administration of the belligerent occupation force, although a 2 state solution was envisioned some 15 years ago and he had somehow to accommodate his family in the mean time. Oh dear Israel, where do you go...

What have Israel's judges to say about intra-Palestinian bureaucracy? The demolition of the illegal occupational settlements by the Jewish invaders is something the government of the foreign invaders should deal with as long as it is the factual ruler of the occupied region. But building permits should only be allowed by the local, i.e. Palestinian authorities, buildings not approved by them and wanted to be razed by them should go asap. It's a big difference between buildings of an aggressive, unfriendly, occupying bunch of ideologues (the settlers) or buildings of the indigenous, righteous inhabitants of the land (the Palestinians).

Palestinians are building on their own land, settlers are building on occupied land. Demolition of Palestinian structures to make way for settlers is contrary to international law, demolition of settlement structures to make way for Palestinians brings Israel into compliance with international law, at least at that geographic location. The world is aghast that this concept should be so difficult for Israel to understand.

about time isn't it?