Does this look like Jerusalem to you? This is footage from earlier today in al-Walaja, a hillside village miles south of the Holy Basin in Jerusalem, and across from a Jewish settlement called Gilo. The settlement wants to expand, and Israel is seizing more land, all east of the Green Line, to build the sprawling Jerusalem that slouches toward Bethlehem. You will see Palestinian-American geneticist Mazin Qumsiyeh being arrested as he tried to stop the bulldozer. "Why are you doing this?" he cries. Yes why are they doing this? I gather Qumsiyeh has been released. P.S. Al-Walaja is only there because villagers were forced off their lands to the west in 1948.
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