A New Legal Challenge to Israeli Settlements Gershom Gorenberg
June 19, 2008 | web only
Israeli human rights activists are asking the Supreme Court to grant an order to demolish homes being built on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
In doing so, they seek to highlight the unbearable dissonance between the rule of law and the settlement effort.
Houses under construction at the contested settlement of Ofrah. Photo courtesy Yesh Din.