In the USA the state of Texas has a law where a person can acquire property under the rule of "Adverse Position". Adverse position works something like this:
"If the owner of a piece of land abandons it, and another party takes position of the property, operating and contracting with others, while holding the land out as his own, and the party in position pays the property taxes on the land, then after 10 year, the party in position of the land, adverse to the real owners interest, acquires legal rights of ownership in the land." This law is in place so land will remain in productive use, (eg use the land or lose it). Since the Jewish people abandoned the land of Israel, and the Palestinians took the land over, it seems to me the Palestinian families who have made the land their homes and have lived off the land from hundreds of year, have acquired legal rights to ownership of the land. One of the major problems stirring conflict with Israel's approach to expansionism seems to be a lack of a system of justice under which matter of law can be determined, and all parties treated justly. Israel is allowed to take property for state expansion with absolute impunity, even as the rights of the legal owner are trampled; because, there is no legal system in place. There will always be conflict in a lawless society, so Israel should establish a legal system to protect the rights of all members of her society, whether they are citizen of the state or not. I know Nazi Germany stripped all legal rights from the Jewish people, including citizenship, and stole everything from them include property, money, food, and finally even their lives, but the suffering of the Jewish people under Nazi German should not be used as a pretext for treating the Palestinians unjustly. Regards, LelandJ On 07/28/2009 11:41 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Leland F. Jackson, > CPA<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> The land lost by Palestinian families when Palestine was >> partitioned in 1948, had been own by Palestinians for >> hundreds of years. Many families being forced off their >> land today to make way for new Jewish settlements have been >> owned by Palestinian families for 4 or 5 hundred years. >> >> After land has been in a family for that long, it can't be >> replaced at any cost or any location, whether in Syria, >> Jordan, Egypt, or the USA. >> >> Perhaps Israel should be required to buy like kind property >> to be given to Palestinian families forced off their >> property in exchange for the land Israel takes from them, >> but like kind property is always a poor substitute for a >> families home place, when the property has been part of the >> family for hundreds of years. > ---------------------------------------------- > > This always sets up a situation were people were at fault. Once you > have someone to blame you take it to the next step of demanding > settlement for your losses and or "crappy experience" > > Over the human time line this area has gone back and forth in > ownership. The Jews have held it and then smited by the Lord. The > Palestinians can say the same sad story with respect to Post WWII. > > Can the two just get along? hahahahaha. History proves that time and > time again this is not likely going to happen. > > So what to do about it for the future? So you take a snapshot of this > from borders of 2010, 2000, 1967, 1947, 1940, 1800, 570, 300, 1 > > Should we give the land back to the Romans, the Greeks or the > Egyptians? How about the Ottomans and or the Persians? > > Nobody wins here without creating a large amount of losers at the same time. > > We could let them keep fighting it out following the old rules. > Attack a city and kill everyone left in the victory ransack party. Or > keep the women and kids alive for slaves.That would shock the crap out > of the rest of the world wouldn't it? > > Bad Steve! > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
