Razed for Israeli Vacation Homes: Palestine's Last Village Faces Bulldozers
By JONATHAN COOK - July 5, 2011
...Lifta is the last deserted village from 1948 still standing in modern-day Israel...In January the Israel Lands Authority...announced a plan to build a luxury housing project over the village...The project...would be targeted at wealthy foreign Jews, mainly from the United States and France, looking for summer vacation homes in Israel.


