In saying tonight that Israel would not expropriate any more land for settlement expansion, Mr. Sharon embraced Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's formula for a compromise.
See articleEvo Morales, Bolivia's president-elect, wrapped up an eight-country world tour in Brazil, where he said he would not expropriate the investments in natural gas by Petrobras, the state-owned energy firm.
The largely conservative Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party, said it would not build new settlements and would not expropriate additional land for settlement construction, and said that the fate of the settlements would be decided in negotiations.
While the government has reiterated it will not expropriate land in Atenco or in neighboring communities for the new airport, local residents there told VICE News in several interviews that they remain vigilant and unconvinced.
I think we still have social capital here because the state hasn't expropriated all these things … The question is how to release it and make it work".
Honestly, this wouldn't be that big of a deal if most of the wealth involved wasn't expropriated from members of the dispossessed and working classes at literally every stage of the transnational production process from the figurative-and-sometimes-literal slave labour in the global South to the tertiary processors and service workers here at the imperial fringe.
"We can't expropriate land -- we also have to indemnify," Itamar Rangel at the INCRA's office in Salvador da Bahia told HuffPost.
Not exactly expropriating the expropriators – but then, in times of such uncertainty, is it not better to avoid radical gestures?
Angelo Oswaldo, who heads Ibram, insists that works will not be expropriated, merely monitored.
He added that Israel would "honor all of its commitments on the issue of settlements," referring to Mr. Olmert's pledge not to build any new settlements, not to expand existing ones beyond their current boundaries and not to expropriate any more Palestinian land.
