We've been following the news today that Israel has rejected the Obama's administration's demand to halt settlement expansion in East Jerusalem. Although this disagreement is taking place behind closed doors here in the US, in Israel/Palestine it is unfolding in the streets of East Jerusalem as Palestinian families fight to stay in their homes. And don't forget there is a very clear US connection here. The settlement in question is being funded by the American casino tycoon Irving Moskowitz.
Joseph Dana, Mairav Zonszein and Antony Loewenstein report from occupied East Jerusalem:
Today roughly one hundred people gathered to protest the eviction of the Palestinian Hanoun family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. They are the latest target of the increasing push to populate the area with Jewish settlers, hindering any possibility for a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
According to their website (standforjerusalem.org), the Hanoun’s are one of 27 families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood that are facing home eviction as part of a plan to establish a new Jewish settlement in the area. The Hanoun family was displaced from their home in Haifa after the Nakba of 1948 and currently consists of 18 people, including six children. They have lived in Sheikh Jarrah since 1956, when the Jordanian Government and UNRWA gave them houses as part of a project to help Palestinians forced to flee their properties.
International press and every major Israeli news outlet including the Jerusalem Post were on hand to hear the press conference held inside the Hanoun family home. This is not surprising given news today of the US State Department informing the current Israeli envoy that Israel must halt all settlement construction in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded that Jerusalem will always be the united capital of Israel.
Later on, Hagit Ofran of Peace Now gave protesters and the media a brief history of another sign of Israel’s takeover in Sheikh Jarrah, the Shepherd Hotel (video below). The hotel was bought by millionaire and close friend of Ehud Olmert, Irving Moskowitz, in the 1980s, with a plan to create a massive apartment complex for Jewish settlers. The city of Jerusalem has until recently denied permission to build such a complex.
Last month, permission was granted by newly instated mayor Nir Barkat to continue construction at the Shepherd Hotel, placing yet another portion of disputed land in Jewish hands and sending a message to Palestinians and the world that Israel is not a genuine partner in any bilateral, peace process.
What is so perplexing and enraging is that by continually implanting Jewish neighborhoods in the midst of Palestinian communities, Israel is sabotaging its own determination to be a permanent, Jewish-majority, internationally accepted, democratic state with defined borders.
(A Palestinian house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Photo: Electronic Intifada)
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Palestinians lived on and owned their land before Jordan or UNRWA came into being. There is no evidence that the Jews owned more than 7% of the land. The remaining 400% was owned by the government or simply unowned. The fact is that the Palestinians owned all the land and had done so for many centuries. The number have always been between 650,000, now 800,000, with Israelis propagandists opting for the lower figure. You are pretty typical of the Israelis, wrapped up in myths and hatred. Myth like land without a people yada yada yada. Perhaps Israelis have the capability to kill everyone in Gaza and the West Bank, but what would be the benefit of that? Kill a few thousand now and then, let the rest of them starve and hope the world isn't watching. Israel's existence is tied to the financial, military, and diplomatic support it gets. Without it, Israel is a 3rd world country and international outrage risks that lifeline. There is no evidence that Palestinians demand total extermination of the Palestinians. They want their own state, but liars like you will always pretend they don't really want a state, but just to get at the Jews. Zionists have always thought everything is about them. There is no evidence that the Palestinians would exterminate the Jews if they had the power. Up until the 1920's Arabs and Jews got along fine until the Europeans began arriving. The reality is that Israel does not want to give up land and so will insist that this is not a territorial dispute but an ideological or religious one. It's a classic example of lies and propaganda, like the other canard that Israel only wants a partner for peace. Israel claims it wants peace, yet Tzipi Livni told the world that a long ceasefire is not in Israel's strategic interests. Can there be a more blatant admission that Israel has never really wanted peace?
ShingoLiar provides entertainment for the BrainDead… Arafat and Abbas have yet to fulfil a SINGLE commitment of theirs from Oslo. 15 years later, we aren't holding our breaths anymore. ShingoLiar can't bring a single achievement to counter this. 9/11 had everything to do with America's support for a corrupt Saudi regime and for Osama bin Laden's relgious belief that the American devil must be destroyed. Israel doesn't figure there at all. President Hussein-Obama uses his names in the same way that Secretary of State Rodham-Clinton uses here names. ShingoLiar is a very silly little Shingo. I am not forcing anything on Arab-US relations. President Hussein-Obama is doing that himself. He will demonstrate to the whole world the dangers of putting a Community Organizer from Chicago into the position of formulating foreign policy. Poor ShingoLiar. It has such a headache.. and never even knew it had a head!
On the contrary, ShingoLiar. It is JEWS who are not allowed into Gaza and Ramallah. Arabs have their own Arab-only roads. Just like in Saudi Arabia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Bypas...
How many Jews want to go into Gaza?
I laugh when I hear about complaining abotu the poor peolpepof Sderot. I wonder how many of those people would swap with those in Gaza?
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Bypas…”
Proves nothing. Most likely a doctored picture.
BTW Jake, the clown from Jerusalem,’
It turns out your little link shows a picture of road signs in Saudi Arabia, not Gaza or Ramallah.
You just can’t help soiling yourself can you Jake?
ShingoLiar babbles on. NO one is reading ShingoLiar anymore. Untrue statements throughout. Babble on, ShingoLiar.
Is ShingoLiar trying to argue with my postings? Or is ShingoLiar trying to agree with me? Perhaps ShingoLiar should wake up first. From experience, even that won't help.
Thom, there was a political cartoon about this during the first Gulf War. It showed a giant military boot crushing a little Saddam Hussein, who was screaming up to the boot-owner: Are you ready to surrender yet? It was in a mainstream paper, NY Times?
What is the ratio of starvation deaths to total population in Gaza and the West Bank? I bet it is lower than in any Arab country. The Palestinians owned almost none of the land, and had done so for many centuries. They mostly had long term leases from the Ottoman Empire, not ownership. Oh yeah, the Arabs and the Jews got along great back then. Except when the Arabs decided to have a nice little massacre with some looting, raping, and pillaging. Peace is in Israel's interest. A long ceasefire is never in the interest of the stronger party. If the Germans had offered a long ceasefire the day after D-day, do you think the Allies would have taken it? Palestinians' offer to Israel: OK, here's the deal, we get all of the West Bank and Gaza, we get to flood Israel with enough Palestinians to vote it out of existence, on the off chance that that plan doesn't work, we will hold off on attacking you for 10-20 years until we are well armed and good and ready, then we resume trying to exterminate you. Hamas has offered ceasefires before, whenever Israel was having too much success disrupting their terrorist operations. Every time, they use it to regroup, re-arm, and unleash the next wave of terrorist attacks. You are liars. The very word you Palestinians use for the ceasefire, "hudna" has a history dating back to Muhammed as a temporary ceasefire to give Muslims the breathing room they need to gain the strength to conquer the very people who signed the hudna with them. Muhammed signed a 10 year hudna, then two years later used a minor violation of it as an excuse to tear it up and attack the fools who trusted him.
Is that your way of saying you support massacres and terrorism? Feel free to say what you believe.
"And you are a left-wing Anti-Zionist extremist" Whic in the real world, makes me a moderate.
Israel has no strategic value. Isrlea's technology is US technology. Military is based on what the US gives to it. Bin Laden cited Israel for 911. It is completely appropriate.
Israel vilated Oslo from day 1, so it is menaingless to blame Arafat for failingn to fulfil commitments. By the time Abbas was on the scene, Israel has thrown Oslo away altogether. 911 has eveything to do with US support for Israel, which Bin Landen told us. Batak Obama does not call himself Hussein. Only islamophobes and right wing racist biggots ignore his first name. US Arab relations have already improved ten fold since Obama's speech in Cairo. Poor Jake continues to soil himself in public. It must be so embarassing for his family.
There are no Arab only roads, but there are definitely Israeli only roads which divide the West Bank into 3 non contiguosu regions. Just like Nazi Germany.
Anothe from non intelligible post from Jake. His communicationn with his Zionist mother ship must be faulty tonight. He can't acces any talking points.
The Palestinians owned 50% of the land and Jews only 7% as was the case fo emany centuries. They owned the land before the exitence of the Ottoman Empire, though the so lcalled Jewish deeds of purchase by Jews from the Ottoman empire are frauulent. The Palestinians didn't massacre anyone. Tzipi Livni told the world that peace is not in Israel's strategic interest. Peace begins with a ceasfire. Israel's option. 2 states or a single state where they are already a minority. Israel becomes flooded with Palestinians and Israelis Jews start to leave the country. Presto, no more Israel. Hamas stuck to the ceasefire for 4 months before Israel broke it, even though Israel failed to honor it from day 1. Israel talks about it's success disrupting their terrorist operations, but this is unverified propaganda. You are a pathetic liar and a right wing hack. Mehchem Begin told the world that Jews were the master race and that exemplifies the attitude of Israel. It believes it is above the law and that all othe rpopulations and states are human excrement and it's slaves.
Peace begins with a peace treaty. All that begins with a ceasefire with Hamas is new and upgraded terrorist attacks. Hamas broke the ceasefire from the beginning. June 19th, ceasefire starts, June 24th Palestinians fire rockets at Israel. Meanwhile, the problem remains, what good is a ceasefire? All it means is that the Palestinians get ready for deadlier attacks. Menachem Begin never said that. You posted a lie with a lie about the source. The Begin quote was made up after the year 2000. As I demonstrated, anyone can make up a quote and lie about the source. I cited a quote from the same publication in the same year (New Statesman, 1982 ) in which you, Shingo, supposedly admitted the bestiality and that your mother is a whore. The Begin quote and your confession to being a deviant pervert, and their sources were made up. Do you really want to say that made up citations to that publication are legitimate sources of information, since that means that people should believe that you are a goat-blowing son of a whore. Are you actually saying that people should believe you are a goat-blowing son of a whore, just because someone made up a quote and lied about the source of it? BTW, Muslim and Arab massacres of Jews, just a few examples: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:5VvzBKS3zj8J:... http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:5VvzBKS3zj8J:...
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