ABSTRACT
Cause advocacy utilizes legal skills and means to challenge prevailing state policies of the distribution of values and resources, and generally uses the legal system to advance objectives of specific redistribution, driven by particular ideological beliefs and motivations. The dispute over land rights stands at the centre of the Naqab case, it was litigated in the court by relatively few individuals only. In their work on the Zionist movement as a colonial movement, alongside British colonialism, Edward Said and Gershon Shafir elaborated on the political structure and discourses of the movement, as well as its exclusionary mechanisms towards different groups. The relevant laws on mawat are Ottoman and British, which continued to apply in Israel for the purpose of land rights settlement. House demolitions and their alleged 'illegality', which are loosely related to the land dispute, became a more prominent issue from the 1970s, during construction of the townships and following the 1986 Markovitz Intergovernmental Committee Report.
