Israel just demolished a 120-year-old home in Ni’lin because it didn’t have a building permit.
https://x.com/Paddystinian/status/2095904725380350299
Israel just demolished a 120-year-old home in Ni’lin because it didn’t have a building permit.
The house was built around 1906.
The State of Israel was founded in 1948.
The occupation of the West Bank began in 1967.
So the paperwork they demanded was issued by an authority that didn’t exist when the walls went up. Bold bureaucratic innovation: retroactive zoning for a country that arrived later than the stone.
Imagine the clerk:
“Sir, we’re going to need the Ottoman-era permit, the British Mandate stamp, and the Israeli one you never applied for because we hadn’t invented ourselves yet. Also the land is now strategically important. Have a nice day.”
Nothing says “rules-based order” like fining a building for missing a form that predates the form-maker. Next they’ll ticket the olive trees for growing without a 2024 agricultural license.
Free Palestine.
And maybe start requiring permits for founding states on other people’s already-built villages.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:20
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