Israel steals land

I know this is like a "Pope is Catholic" story but it's the strange means that Israel uses to steal the land that make it newsworthy now. This latest land grab in and around East Jerusalem shows all that's wrong with Zionism in the modern world: the ethnic cleansing, the colonial settlement, the apartheid laws and the ridiculous pretence that Israel is a society ruled by law. This of course invokes the law relating to the bizarre notion of "present absentees". And it is an update on a decision taken secretly by the Israeli cabinet back in the summer.

Update: see this Comment from someone called Eurosabra.

This measure has been reversed, 1/31, by order of the Attorney General's office. Are you going to carry THAT as an item as well, or are you just going to let the world--or at least your readers--continue to think that the Absentee Property Law has been extended to East Jerusalem as well?
See headheeb.blogmosis.com for reports on the intra-Israeli bureaucratic jockeying on this as well.

Personally I'm not sure if Israel is so obedient to its own laws that confiscations won't happen but we shall see.