Court Orders State to Compensate Arab Land Claims

Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/6/14 | Ari Yashar

[Eleutheria5]

A court on Tuesday ordered the state to pay compensation to local Arabs over their claims of having owned land in the Jewish community of Amona, located to the north of Jerusalem.

The six Arab claimants were given a total of 300,000 shekels ($85,700), and further the court ordered that if the Jewish residents of the town on the land claimed by the Arab side are not removed by 2015, the state must pay another 48,000 shekels ($13,500), reports AFP.

The extreme left legal group Yesh Din praised the ruling, saying "now what is required is evacuation and we're going to fight on until that is achieved."

The town of Amona has faced the threat of forcible eviction since 2006, when the Supreme Court ruled that it was built in part on privately owned Arab land. Amona residents say that most of the land on which their community was built was legally purchased from local Arabs.

The attorney representing Amona residents, Harel Arnon, said last December that residents are frustrated with the government.

“Amona wasn’t established by thugs who built secretly in the night,” said Arnon. “It was built by the authorities, with their knowledge and with government funding. It’s true that some things were done wrong. Agreements were not always signed, land rights were not always clarified. But the state built [Amona], and now denies it."

Another attorney for Amona, Mordechai Weiss, noted at the time that one of the plaintiffs is a member of Hamas.

As for Yesh Din, the leftist group stirred controversy...

During the celebration Jewish symbols at the site were replaced with PLO flags, and a banner was waved that depicted a man in religious Jewish garb with a spear through his mouth, as calls to kill Jews were shouted.

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[Eleutheria5]

http://www.yesh-din.org/

Yousful Eediots S(*k Hamas DI*k Naturally

[DonaldC]

If it was taken by eminent domain, then the court may have been right on this.

[Eleutheria5]

Compensation? Sure. Evictions? No. Either it’s taken by eminent domain and there’s compensation, or the taking was nullified, and there’s no compensation. But they can’t do both.

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

If they pay the 48,000 shekels, is that the end of the Arab claims? If so, worth it.

Please ping me when you post an article about Arab courts, somewhere, honoring or even listening to Jewish claims

[Eleutheria5]

There’s also going to be an eviction.