September 1, 2014 
Ma’an News Agency | September 1, 2014 | 22:41
The Israeli West Bank settlement of Efrat on September 1, 2014
(AFP Ahmad Gharabli)
CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt on Monday denounced Israeli plans to expropriate West Bank land, saying the move violates international law and is an obstacle to efforts for a lasting Palestinian-Israeli settlement.
On Sunday, Israel said it would expropriate 4,000 dunams (1,000 acres) of Palestinian land around Bethlehem, and allowed 45 days for any appeal.
“This is not a positive step — it contradicts international law and will have negative consequences on the peace process,” a foreign ministry statement in Cairo said.
Egypt last week mediated a permanent truce between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip to end a bloody and devastating seven-week war — the deadliest in years.
Negotiators are expected to return to Cairo within a month to discuss crunch issues such as Palestinian demands for a port and an airport and the release of prisoners, as well as Israel’s call for militants in the Palestinian territory to disarm.
The foreign ministry did not mention the Gaza truce talks but insisted that Israel’s planned land grab in the West Bank would be “an obstacle” to a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
Rights watchdog Amnesty International also denounced the Israeli plans, saying that it “appears to be the largest land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1980.”
“Israel’s strategy of illegally confiscating land for settlements in the West Bank must stop once and for all,” said Amnesty’s Philip Luther.
On Sunday, the Israeli army department tasked with administering civil affairs in Palestinian occupied territories said: “On the instructions of the political echelon … 4,000 dunams at Gevaot (settlement) is declared as state land.”
It said the move stemmed from political decisions taken after the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the same area, known to Israelis as the Gush Etzion settlement bloc.
The Palestinians have called for diplomatic action against Israel, while Israeli peace campaigners said the land expropriation is the biggest of its kind in three decades.
“As far as we know, this declaration is unprecedented in its scope since the 1980s and can dramatically change the reality in the Gush Etzion and the Bethlehem areas,” Peace Now said on Sunday.
THE LEGAL RIGHT OF RESISTANCE
Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right?
Right to Resist
81 Notre Dame Law Review1275 (2006). Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also discussing other genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of the international community’s response to genocides, such as “targeted sanctions” or international peacekeeping forces. Examining international legal authorities such as the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice, the article demonstrates that groups which are being subjected to genocide have a legal right of self-defense. International treaties, Security Council arms embargoes, or national gun control laws cannot lawfully be enforced in a manner which prevents self-defense resistance to a genocide in progress, because under international law, the prohibition against any form of complicity in genocide takes legal precedence over lesser laws.
With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. In PDF.
http://www.davekopel.com/2a/Foreign/genocide.pdf
MORAL, HISTORICAL & LEGAL RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE
GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
Genocide in Photos
Since 1937 (Pre)Israel terrorism commits ongoing massacres in Palestine. Violent genocide, but the least known, silent genocide causing excess death by deliberate racist policies of deprivation. The same deprivation which according the Israeli narrative have cost 1/6 of Jewish Holocaust victims (1 of 6 million). The cost in human lives by avoidable mortality for the sake of the creation of Israel according to research (by Dr. Gideon Polya) in Palestine and neighboring countries is 24 million lives.
- All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians (From 1937-2014)
- The silent genocide: Avoidable Mortality (Research by Dr. Gideon Polya)
- Confirmed Names of Martyrs Occupation (Cont. Updated)
- Ethnic Cleansing (Special Topic)
- Israeli escalation in Gaza – A cover-up for settlement activity
- Slow Death – Int’l Report: Collective punishment of Gaza reached critical stage
DEBUNKING THE ISRAELI MYTHS
Occupied Palestine | فلسطين 
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