Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli officials claim that the latest Al-Bireh order was necessary for security reasons. They point out that the disputed land adjoins the military governor's headquarters. As one official explained, "We do not want to be confronted one morning by houses on the borders of our military camps." That may be a valid point, except that Beth-El, meanwhile, is being built on land originally expropriated by Israel solely for military purposes. Abdul Jawad Hussein, a retired businessman who owns part of the land where Beth-El is being built, says that since 1969 the Israelis have fenced...
Just across the road from Beth-El, a cooperative composed of 62 Arab schoolteachers who organized to buy land and build homes, has also run into trouble. Now much of their land too has been restricted by the Israelis. Says Ahmad Thalji, a retired schoolteacher: "I bought one dunam 20 years ago. Now I am told I cannot build a house. I hear people always speaking about human rights. Where are the human rights in this injustice...
...point was that the new measures failed to extend integration in the fields of land ownership, education and medical care. Hospitals and schools remain segregated; last year the government spent $493 per capita on white schooling, but only $46 for black education. In 1977 the 48-year-old land-tenure laws, which divided the country between whites and blacks, were amended to allow blacks to buy some white-designated land. But so far only 25 blacks have had both the cash and the inclination...
...twelve demonstrators, arrested on land owned by the Public Service Company (PSC), which is building the plant, were charged with criminal tresspass, which can bring a penalty of up to one year in prison and/or a $1000 fine. They may also be charged with contempt of court, since a court injunction against trespassing on PSC land, which was issued in June, is still in effect...
...little more than half of that land belongs to the U.S.; but the rest belongs to some 50 farmers who raise wheat, oats, barley and livestock there, and they don't want to move. So they have taken one acre of the threatened land, subdivided it into 4,840 parcels of about one square yard each, and offered them for sale at $20 apiece. So far, they have sold about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam...