text: r.ent a1on9, and particularly after Che first decade of occupation dragqed on into a second decade r{ith ttte turning-point of L977, Alienation of the 1a4d 5, glorse than any lndividual practice, because of the nassive irreParable losses which it entails' is tbe seizure bv the occuPler on a variety of pretexcs of enornous amounts of Palestinlan lands. The published data indicaees that nore than 50 per cent of the territory of the tlest Bank has thus passed into Israeli hands. The relationship of a people to its land is inextricably bound to its abil-ity to exercise hunan rigbts, indeed it i6 the bedrock upon ehich systems of rights are built. Foreign expropriation destroys the means of individual and collective subsistence, severs the cieizensr link wlth their ancestral past and inciles to emiq rat ion, 6. Under the current Israeli Government' elected last July and heralded as inauguratihg a nevr era, settlenent building continues, as does the expropriation of Iand for the purpose of creating nes settlenents, and the seizure of land fornsecurityn purposes. Existing Israeli settlements tn the tlest Bank (there are around 125) already provide the potential infrastructure for one nillion new /...A/40n02 Engl i sh Page 135 Israeli imniqrants lo the occupied territories, private land purchases, oftenfraudulent and always illeqal, also @cur. (Under the inCernational Ia$ ofbelliqerent occupation, land may not be purcbased by the occupier in occupiedterritory.) 7- one can only idonder nhen and over whal terrltory peace can ever conceivably beestablished, and, in the nearer term, one may even wonder wbat the purpose ofeducational institutiona is to be i.f , like bodiless heads. cbe unlversities are toproduce graduates wbo have nowhere to go but lnto exile. Road Plan 50
analysis: The text primarily discusses the impact of Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people, focusing on the expropriation of land, settlements, and the potential consequences for the Palestinian population. While it does not explicitly mention economic development or industry, the emphasis on the seizure of land and the potential for Israeli immigrants suggests a connection to human rights and territorial issues.