Tangent: Sorry, it is as much an ethnocracy as the UK is, the US is, or Rumania is. No nation on Earth including N. Korea ia 100% homogenous in ethnicity.
"Illegal to make someone homeless in civil law.": Why? Your country does it all the time. Unless I am mistaken , London is not huge on squatters, or people ignoring all code and Inspection procedutres to erect anything they want to call a building.
"Building on someone else's ;and.": The military does no such thing. In fact, neither do civil authorities within Israel. There is a law called the "Law of Abandonment," along with Western/Modern Property Assumption.
In the latter, relying on case precedence first established in the 19th Century CE/AD under the Ottomans, continued under the British colonial slavemasters, and adopted by Israel a throughly modern nation, we require more than continued cultivation over 3 generations as proof positive that someone owns something.
By 1840 the Deed became the proof of ownership. It is also usually forgotten that less than 8% of local Arabs even owned the shirt on their back. A few rich local families did have some nice holdings, 2 families in Shechem, Jews in Hevron, 3 families in Jerusalem, but all in all most land was owned by foreign investors like the Sublime Porte and his cronies.
The problem was, that these land holders really could not give a rat's as# what local Arabs thought or did, as long as their taxes got paid and things happened as they always had. Ergo, when the Ottomans lost in WWI and San Remo awarded the UK my homeland, and the swaggering Brits came and tried to keep a civil order they had more than a little difficulty.
They inherited a bunch of deeds and the people living on the land usually had no idea what those papers were, even if they could read it (with illiteracy reaching more than 94%).
So, as one can easily see, there was a huge mess ahead for anyone playing that field, and in 48 it became us. To add insult to injury 3/4ths of all Arabs in the entire Mandate moved from their traditional domicile and when the 49 Armistice was settled a huge mess was on the table.
Of course UN Mediation did try and rectify it if the Arabs, now beginning to call themselves "Palestinians" had even accepted our stupid (giving way too much) offer of 100,000 UNRWA clients repatriated from outside the Greenline immediately and that was only the first increment, plus 10,000,000 US in banked funds to be released...Which would have settled 60% of the so called "Refugee Propblem" before 1950 IF Arabs had even bothered to consider it....
As for Silverstein, did I curse? Did I display racist commentary? I displayed an opinion that did not agree with his, and obviously yours and for people whining about democracy, that is precious. silverstein, I said it then to hoim cyber face and will say it again, is nothing but a pompous windbag who engages in egotistical nonsense. If you are about peace,m you want peace for all sides, if you want discussion and conversation you want it to represent all viewpoints as long as civility is preserved. To say that you want these things but then to berate someone because their opinion does not agree with yours just shows a childish outlook and as I told him, better for both of us. Leave hoim to his liberal fantasyland.
The guy is a Jew in America. People like him make up what? 14% of the total demographic? No wonder he does not want diversity on his site. More power to him.
As for the military giving a damn about civil rights, please, please study basic military doctrine.
