South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature

South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature: "The Palestinian owners of the land on which Migron stands went to court in 2006, with the help of Peace Now, to demand that the government remove the squatters on their property.  Before the Court, the state admitted that the outpost was an egregious violation of the law but said it wanted to build a new neighborhood in a different settlement for the lawbreakers to enable a peaceful evacuation. The outpost settlers rejected that deal. If the Migron ruling achieved only moderate headlines, it was partly because March is a long way off and no one really believes the state will carry out the orders, and partly because the top acreage on newspaper and website front pages had already been seized by the growing economic protests of the July 14 movement."