{"id":3843,"date":"2015-06-13T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:56:52","slug":"epalestine-972-magazine-israels-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/06\/epalestine-972-magazine-israels-high\/","title":{"rendered":"+972 Magazine: [Israel&#8217;s] High Court: Palestinians have no planning rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I gave a talk to a group of Jewish students from the U.S. who   came to Ramallah by way of a group called EXTEND Tours. One of the   students, an astute female student, asked me when I was done, &#8220;Do you   call what Israel is doing Apartheid.&#8221; In answering, I said I do, but in   reference to the Crime of Apartheid and not necessarily the South   African version of Apartheid. I went on to say, however, I try not to   throw the word around in vain and prefer to explain what reality looks   like on the ground and let people reach their own conclusions,   especially Jews given this is all being done to us (and them) in their   name. In the spirit of my answer, I share this latest development from   the invisible part of the Israeli military occupation. ~Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>+972 Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Published June 12, 2015<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\">\nHigh Court: Palestinians have no planning rights<\/h1>\n<p>By Haggai Matar<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By rejecting a petition by Palestinian residents of   Area C, Israel&#8217;s High Court of Justice effectively cemented two separate   planning regimes on the same plot of land: one for Jews, another for   Palestinians.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/972mag.com\/high-court-palestinians-have-no-planning-rights\/107697\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Palestinian farmers search the remains of concrete shelters demolished by the Israeli military, A-Tuwani, West Bank, April 2, 2014. Seven shelters built in agricultural areas outside of the village belonging to different inhabitants of A-Tuwani were demolished on the same morning. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler\/Activestills.org)\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.972mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/06\/demolition.jpg\" height=\"290\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/972mag.com\/high-court-palestinians-have-no-planning-rights\/107697\/\">http:\/\/972mag.com\/high-court-palestinians-have-no-planning-rights\/107697\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I gave a talk to a group of Jewish students from the U.S. who came to Ramallah by way of a group called EXTEND Tours. One of the students, an astute female student, asked me when I was done, &#8220;Do you call what Israel is doing Apartheid.&#8221; In answering, I said I do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,541,542,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apartheid","tag-area-c","tag-israeli-high-court","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}