Bilin Journal - In Village, Palestinians See Model for Their Cause - NYTimes.com
"The Palestinian village of Bilin lost half its land to the settlement of Modiin Illit and the barrier and took its complaint to Israel’s highest court. Two years ago, the court handed it an unusual victory. It ordered the settlement to stop building its new neighborhood and ordered the Israeli military to move the route of the barrier back toward Israel, thereby returning about half the lost land to the village.'The villagers danced in the street,' recalled Emily Schaeffer, an Israeli lawyer who worked on the case for the village. 'Unfortunately, it has been two years since the decision, and the wall has not moved.' "
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