> > In the fall of 1948, a German-born Zionist named Leo Kohn, who had earlier >> published a study of the constitution adopted by the Irish Free State, was >> putting the finishing touches on one such option. His draft constitution >> would establish equal protection under the law; ban discrimination on the >> basis of race, religion, language, or sex; institute equal civic and >> political rights in employment and political office; and forbid the >> expropriation of land or property “except for public purposes” subject to >> full compensation. In short, it was a liberal-democratic constitution—the >> precise thing that Ben-Gurion rejected. >> >> But in December of that year, the Israeli government enacted the >> Emergency Regulations on Property of Absentees, creating a legal mechanism >> to justify Palestinian dispossession. Designating as “absentee” any >> non-Jewish person who had left their home and entered enemy territory >> (which included much of Mandate Palestine) between November 29, 1947 and >> September 1, 1948, the regulation expropriated homes and properties at a >> massive scale—“more than 10,000 shops, 25,000 buildings (housing 57,000 >> family dwellings), and nearly 60 percent of all fertile land in the >> country,” according to historian Shira Robinson >> <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21669>. This came on the heels of >> Operation Hiram, a military campaign to conquer the central and northern >> Galilee, which involved another round of expulsions aided by roughly a >> dozen massacres in Palestinian villages. The Arab inhabitants who managed >> to remain *in situ *were soon subjected to martial law—a condition that >> would last until 1966. >> >> <https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-israels-illiberal-democracy-became-a-model-for-the-right/> > > > >> >> https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-israels-illiberal-democracy-became-a-model-for-the-right/ >> >> >>
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