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Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:17 AM Jul 2016

Secret 1970 Document Confirms First West Bank Settlements Built on a Lie

In minutes of meeting in then-defense minister Moshe Dayan’s office, top Israeli officials discussed how to violate international law in building settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron.

Yotam Berger
Jul 28, 2016

It has long been an open secret that the settlement enterprise was launched under false pretenses, involving the expropriation of Palestinian land for ostensibly military purposes when the true intent was to build civilian settlements, which is a violation of international law.

Now a secret document from 1970 has surfaced confirming this long-held assumption. The document, a copy of which has been obtained by Haaretz, details a meeting in the office of then-defense minister Moshe Dayan at which government and military leaders spoke explicitly about how to carry out this deception in the building of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron.

The document is titled “The method for establishing Kiryat Arba.” It contains minutes of a meeting held in July 1970 in Dayan’s office, and describes how the land on which the settlement was to be built would be confiscated by military order, ostensibly for security purposes, and that the first buildings on it would be falsely presented as being strictly for military use.

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Secret 1970 Document Confirms First West Bank Settlements Built on a Lie (Original Post) Israeli Jul 2016 OP
Wow. Just Wow. Ford_Prefect Jul 2016 #1
The settlement project is the Jewish state' biggest strategic mistake - Little Tich Jul 2016 #2

Little Tich

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2. The settlement project is the Jewish state' biggest strategic mistake -
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 06:28 AM
Jul 2016

the settlements are the sine qua non of the bi-national state.

That the planners of the settlements knowingly violated international law makes me wonder what they were thinking, and how they believed they could get away with it...

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