Eminent Domain Israeli Style

The Jewish settlers in Gaza are being asked by the Israeli state to leave
the homes they have worked hard to build and the land they have sweated to
cultivate because of the political policy of appeasement. The Israeli
government hopes to trade land for the promise of peace from the
Palestinian authority. This is a brutal reminder of the extent to which
the state can exercise its coercive power over the citizens it is supposed
to protect. In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right
of city governments to forcibly buy the land and property of private
individuals for the sake of "community development." The Jewish settlers
are tasting the brutal exercise of eminent domain for the sake of political
expediency.