Court effectively tells government to issue building permits for Itamar
An Israeli court has effectively told the government that it must issue building permits for the village of Itamar - because the Housing Ministry represented that it had them. The plaintiffs, families from Itamar, argued in court that they lived in the homes and when they wanted to purchase them the bank requested that they present a building permit so that they could obtain a mortgage, and only then did they discover that there were no building permits because of the lack of zoning.. The plaintiffs’ attorney, Doron Nir Zvi, claimed that the purchase contract states that the house was built according to the planning and building laws in Judea and Samaria.Read the whole thing.
The housing and development company argued that it had not checked out the planning situation when it got the homes from the Housing Ministry, and that obtaining building plans today is a very complex issue because it is a political and diplomatic one, and is not under the authority of the housing and development company.
In his decision, Judge Yair Dlugin ordered the housing and development company to contact the relevant state bodies in order to obtain a detailed and reasoned reply in writing as to why there are no zoning plans allowing building permits for the homes purchased by residents in Itamar.
“Since there is no dispute that the plaintiffs live there and have acquired the rights to live there through signed agreements with the defendant, it is inconceivable that they will continue to live there without building permits being issued,” wrote Judge Dlugin. “It does not seem to me that there is any justification for this, not even one grounded by politics.”
I challenge you to find me another country in the (Western) world where these kinds of shenanigans go on.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, building permits, Ehud Barak, Itamar
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:59 AM
1 Comments:
Carl - right.
Without the guarantee of private property rights, you have totalitarianism.
There is no legal or moral justification for the Israeli government's denial of basic human rights to an entire community of people.
Even the political reasons invoked to maintain this denial are transparently fraudulent. Not a single Arab would be harmed by any normal dealings in Itamar.
And the state has never shown that it would impact adversely on talks with the Arabs in the future. It is high time to correct this injustice and prevent the Israeli government from pursuing this despicable policy elsewhere.
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