Lawsuit Brings Murky West Bank Land Deals to Light
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AP story by Amy Teibel gives a glimpse
into the bureaucratic smoke screen that helps ensure a strong Jewish presence on lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state. Inn a case before Israel's Supreme Court, a document shows that the World Zionist Organization, acting as an agent of the Israeli government, took private Palestinian land in the West Bank and gave it to Jewish settlers, even though the state itself had declared the property off-limits to settlement.
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