Israelis Arrested For Attempting To Sell Palestinian Land
Haaretz reports,
Police investigators arrested three suspects last week – including a member of the Likud’s Central Committee – on suspicion of planning to use forged documents to sell land belonging to absentee Palestinian owners to an American millionaire.
The three allegedly planned to sell land amounting to 92 dunams (about 23 acres) between Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Beit Sahur for $10 million, according to Superintendent Aharon Gilor, head of the police fraud squad’s northern division.
I’m not exactly clear how the Justice Ministry can say:
“This decision is not legally defensible, that it cannot stand up to either Israeli or international law”
and yet not continue to the logical conclusion that the 1950 Absentee Property Law itself is invalid
Oddly, the names in the article sound Arabic. Were Israeli Arabs or Druze involved in this scam?
Thank you, Mobius