By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent: Settlers to move into E. J'lem police HQ
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Title:#13 2nd try to explain to BOET
Name:Johnboy
City: SydneyState: Australia
BOET, the land is under military occupation.

An occupying power cannot confiscate private property, and it cannot use public land except under the rules of usufruct.

So all it can do is REQUISITION land for its own purpose, and when it has finished with whatever purpose it is using that land for the land must go back to the rightful owner (or, if it is public land, revert to public use).

In short; requisitioning land means the state can use it but it doesn`t mean that the state now owns it.

Keep that in mind, and if you look back over this article you`ll clearly see where the state has engaged in an illegal sleight-of-hand i.e. Israel has requisitioned land for its own purpose (a police headquarters) and then when it no longer needs that land has sold the site off to its own citizens.

Which is an illegal act, BOET, because title to that land does not - and never has - resided with the state of Israel.