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…VAIIV • 411 AIWA /- duration of the occupation) was able to wrest control of fully one- third of the land in the West Bank. It is on these "state lands" that most of Israel's settlements have been built. Indeed, for years Palestinian spokesmen have angrily protest- ed that successive Israeli gov- ernments have stripped helpless villagers of their property and used these "state lands" not for the benefit of the indigenous Palestinian popul...…

















































