Israel is using a land-registry process to reclassify Palestinian land as “state land” when proof thresholds can’t be met - on their terms of course. Right, so this is the proof object. Land registration. A state registry entry. A file that turns Palestinian land into “state land” if the people living on it can’t satisfy an Israeli proof test. Bezalel Smotrich is Israel’s finance minister, and he’s the one driving this as part of the settlement push. Yariv Levin is Israel’s justice minister, giving the legal machinery and the courts cover to run it as “procedure”. Israel Katz is Israel’s defence minister, which means the whole thing sits under the same security apparatus that controls Area C on the ground. They’ve restarted a process that was frozen for decades and they’re calling it “transparency” and “dispute resolution”, which is always the language you reach for when you want theft to sound like admin. Because once the registry says the land belongs to the state, the eviction stops looking like a land grab and starts looking like “enforcement”. That’s how people get erased without a headline-making massacre, and it’s also why Jordan is sounding the alarm and why this stops being a local story. So stay with me, because I’m going to show you how the mechanism works, why the proof bar is the weapon, and what this locks in for the region once it’s written into the record. Right, so Israel’s cabinet has now approved a return to land registration in the occupied West Bank, and the names attached it matter because it tells you what this is for: Bezalel Smotrich has brought it, Yariv Levin has backed it, and Israel Katz has signed onto it, and the mechanism is brutally simple even when it’s wrapped in tidy bureaucratic language. The state restarts a process that was frozen for decades, the state decides what gets “settled”, and anything Palestinians cannot prove to an Israeli standard gets recorded in the state’s name. Land becomes “state land” by default. A dispossession pipeline with a rubber stamp.