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A line of selective rhetoric: Israeli Supreme Court fails to enforce the evacuation of 'unauthorised settlements' in the occupied West Bank

On 10 June 2009, the Israeli Supreme Court (HCJ) rendered another stultifying judgment with regards to the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), this time on the evacuation of what the Court refers to as ‘unauthorised settlements’ or squats in the occupied West Bank. It should be noted as a point of clarification that the state and Court differentiate between two kinds of settlements – one kind is termed by the Court as the regular type of settlement, and the other as an illegal one (i.e. a squat consisting usually of temporary caravans or tents established as extensions of existing settlements). Remarkably,…