Covering Israel’s confiscation of land for a Palestinian bypass road, Conal Urquhart of The Guardian quotes “an Israeli geographer who specialises in Israel’s development of the West Bank.”
Jeff Halper, an Israeli geographer who specialises in Israel’s development of the West Bank, said it appeared that there was a rush to carry out as much work as possible before the US-sponsored meeting between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, in Annapolis, Maryland, in November.
This disingenuous description doesn’t fully describe Halper’s specialization in “West Bank development.” The man runs the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions.
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