
Emailing: PSC Disappearing Palestine Maps (2008)
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Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements. Benjamin Netanyahu seizes his chance to announce another expansion of settlements; bulldozers are ready, pink-roofed homes will be up in no time.
Israel’s use complex legal codes to authorise seizures under Ottoman or British Mandate law, or under the law of “absentee property”, illegal under international law.
The lasting pain of their first 1948 dispossession is viewed as betrayal to Palestinians, a charge levelled at the British, whose 1917 Balfour declaration promised Palestine as a Jewish homeland.




