Israel is using a land-registry process to reclassify Palestinian land as “state land” when proof thresholds can’t be met - on their terms of course. Right, so this is the proof object. Land registration. A state registry entry. A file that turns Palestinian land into “state land” if the people living on it can’t satisfy an Israeli proof test. Bezalel Smotrich is Israel’s finance minister, and he’s the one driving this as part of the settlement push. Yariv Levin is Israel’s justice minister, giving the legal machinery and the courts cover to run it as “procedure”. Israel Katz is Israel’s defence minister, which means the whole thing sits under the same security apparatus that controls Area C on the ground. They’ve restarted a process that was frozen for decades and they’re calling it “transparency” and “dispute resolution”, which is always the la ...