Haaretz - Court okays pullout law by 10 votes to 1

[Englander]

Last update - 11:26 10/06/2005


By a majority of 10 justices to one, the High Court ruled yesterday that the pullout decision is constitutional, as is the compensation.

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According to the ruling, the areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are under "belligerent occupation" and do not come under Israeli law; the Evacuation Compensation Law violates the settlers' human rights; the violation is in keeping with conditions allowed by the Basic Law, i.e., it corresponds with the values of the State of Israel; the government's decision, the evacuation orders and the composition of the Disengagement Administration's eligibility committees are legal; and the six months alloted for the evacuation constitute a reasonable and appropriate time period.

The ruling rejected the state's argument that the Evacuation Compensation Law and the government's decision are not reviewable because the issue at hand is a political one. The justices said that if the plan involved merely a withdrawal from areas under belligerent occupation, it would not raise any constitutional problem and the petitions would have been rejected immediately. But the plan does not involve only the relinquishing of control over the territory, but also the evacuation of Israeli citizens from this territory, the justices noted.

"This aspect of the disengagement involves the violation of the human rights of the Israeli evacuees," the justices explained. "Therefore, we reject the state's argument with regard to non-justiciability."

The justices also rejected the settlers' claim that the areas slated for evacuation are not under belligerent occupation, but are part of the state, ruling, "Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are not part of the State of Israel," and therefore do not fall under Israeli law, jurisdiction or administration.

More at;
Haaretz

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1. Just in case anyone missed it, here it is again...

The justices also rejected the settlers' claim that the areas slated for evacuation are not under belligerent occupation, but are part of the state, ruling, "Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are not part of the State of Israel," and therefore do not fall under Israeli law, jurisdiction or administration.

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2. The Disengagement game...

Play it. It's cute.

http://brand.co.il/unik/westbank/

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[Englander]

9. And it gets a mention in Haaretz;

'Anti-settler group launches new 'Wild West Bank' Internet game
By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service

An anti-settler group has launched an Internet game called "Wild West Bank," to demonstrate the difficulty of evacuating settlers from the territory Palestinians want for a future state, the group said in a statement Tuesday.

The game, with a cast including a sheriff, Israel Defense Forces soldiers, Palestinians and gun-toting settlers, is part of a new campaign by a coalition of dovish organizations against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

It comes as settlers wage a loud campaign against government plans to evacuate all 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip and four from the West Bank this summer.'

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/587750.html

& the BBC;

'An Israeli anti-settlement group has designed an online game to highlight what it sees as the problem of Jewish settlers colonising Palestinian land.

Called Wild West Bank, players must try to dismantle all the Jewish settlements that continually spring up.

The Back to Israel group says it wants to show that despite the government's withdrawal from Gaza, settlement building continues in the West Bank.

Organisers say more than 45,000 people have downloaded the game in four days. '

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4095364.stm

[eyl]

3. Unless Israel annexed the Territories when

I wasn't looking, then no, it isn't part of the state; IOW, nothing new (the verdict* distinguished between annexed and non-annexed territory).


*For Hebrew readers, the verdict can be found here; the English version doesn't seem to be up yet (and will probably take a while)

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4. It is news to some who've posted here in the past...

..and it was to those folk that the point needed to be stressed...

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5. Gee - I guess this means Israel isn't an apartheid state.

Right?

[Englander]

7. Is this post meant to be a serious comment....

or is it an attempt at satire?

:shrug:

[newyorican]

6. Yes they did annex territory...

-- The Israeli government makes decision on June 11 to annex East Jerusalem, occupied in the course of the war begun on June 5.

Source

[eyl]

8. I was referring to

annexing the entire Territories; in this case, Gaza.