{"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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"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":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_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}]}}