Reply #50: Never implemented?!?

[whosinpower]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....hohoho...hehe

Please provide links showing Rabin rejecting the memorandum - and please also provide links showing how marginalized Koenig became after the memorandum. It is my understanding that he enjoyed a long and fruitful career AFTER he wrote the memorandum.

Your SO funny. Shira.....if it was never implemented, then why pray tell did the Supreme Court of Israel have to make a decision regarding Kaaden? And if it wasn't state policy - then why pray tell did the state feel the need to write a bill explicitly to countermand the supreme courts ruling?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/world/plan-to-keep-israeli-arabs-off-some-land-is-backed

snip - The bill was designed to counter a March 2000 Israeli Supreme Court decision that there could be no discrimination between Jews and Arabs in allocating state lands.

The court decision was handed down in a case involving an Israeli Arab, Adel Kaadan, who was turned down when he applied to buy land to build a home in the Jewish village of Katzir in Galilee. Like many rural communities in Israel, Katzir was built by the quasigovernmental Jewish Agency, and Mr. Kaadan was rejected because he was an Arab.

The bill seeks to invalidate the ruling by legislating that communities be built exclusively for Jews. An explanatory note attached to the bill asserts that the court decision undermines the Jewish Agency's mission to settle Jews in Israel -- that the court ''preferred the principle of equality of a state of all its citizens to its value as a Jewish state.''

The attachment also says giving preference to settling Jews is in keeping with a government policy ''that recognizes the need to Judaize various areas across the country.''


And another article - By Uri Ash, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

The Jewish Agency for Israel, the Ministry of
Housing and Construction and the Authority for the
Development of the Galilee have launched a
campaign aimed at promoting Jewish settlement in
the areas adjacent to the northern border with
Lebanon.

The state is offering free land
for construction, financial
assistance for development of
infrastructure and services, a
construction grant and improved
mortgage benefits. Some of the
terms and conditions will be on
offer until the middle of
December.

The campaign will target the regional councils
of Mateh Asher, Ma'ale Yosef, Marom Hagalil and
Hagalil Ha'elion, and will span 23 settlements
in the northern region.

Israel's northern border region is among the few
areas where kibbutzim have continued to prepare
agricultural ground for construction purposes
despite a supreme court ruling banning the
practice, in accordance with temporary Israel
Lands Administration regulations.