Comments on: Court prevents eviction of Palestinian family by JNF

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:56:45 +0000

Jeremiah, your information is slightly out of date. The US State Department does not recognize Jerusalem as being Israeli, but the US Supreme Court ruled that Israel may be listed as the country on a passport for children born in Jerusalem as per law passed by the US Congress.

By: Jeremiah Haber

Jeremiah Haber — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:18:28 +0000

Gnowamme, you wrote “Ya3cov, I live in W. Jerusalem, by all definitions Israel, not Palestine.” You have to add, “by all Israeli definitions.”

The 1948 annexation of West Jerusalem has never been recognized outside of Israel – the United States does not recognize it, and no other countries do, as far as I know. That is why Americans born in West Jerusalem do not have their country of birth listed as “Israel” on their passport.

By: Gnowamme

Gnowamme — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:15:12 +0000

Ya3cov, I live in W. Jerusalem, by all definitions Israel, not Palestine.

I exactly do not want to approve or whitewash anything. But I believe exaggerating/demonizing is both counter-productive and unnecessary. As I said, there’s not a lack of policies worth of slamming, why go overboard?
Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq are all condemnable, and yet only idiots claim the US is committing genocides and running a concentration camp. I hope you agree.

As I said, I live here, with a non-Jew spouse and many non-Jew friends. And yes there is racism, especially the destructive, increasing efforts by right wing groups to “Judiaze” Palestinian districts. This is extremely nasty, supremacist racism. And it’s political implications cannot be overestimated. There is also plenty of racism and intolerance among the city’s Muslim population. And I don’t mean objection to Israeli rule or policies, I mean radical Islamist views.

But to say “no non-Jew is safe in Israel”, and that they’re just “surviving”… What can I tell you. It takes someone who doesn’t live here and is not politically active here to make such statements.

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:02:03 +0000

al-hamdullillah!

It’s only a drop in the ocean, but at least…

By: sh

sh — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:13:42 +0000

Nir Hasson explains the background to the Ruweidi story and others who were dispossessed by the same methods in the past, and who is behind it, in Haaretz today. It makes truly sickening reading.

‘Starting in the 1970s, Nabulsi, an East Jerusalem taxi driver, provided settler organizations with affadavits claiming that Palestinian owners of East Jerusalem homes were “absentees” residing in enemy countries, which the state used over and over to expropriate the properties and turn them over to settler organizations….. Overturning a previous court’s ruling and determining that the Roweidi family, not Elad or the JNF, were the Silwan property’s rightful owners, Judge Miriam Mizrahi said Nabulsi’s affadavit, which was crucial to Elad’s case, looked awfully suspicious.”

Read on. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/the-palestinian-taxi-driver-crucial-to-jewish-settlement-in-e-jlem-1.429579

By: Ya3cov

Ya3cov — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:55:50 +0000

Gnowamme above uses the “I have [insert oppressed group] friends” so I can speak for them excuse to justify illegal annexation and the whitewashing of ethnic cleansing. This rhetorical tool hasn’t worked in the US for years but still works in Palestine.
Sad.

By: gnowamme

gnowamme — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:06:09 +0000

rafael, as a jerusalemite who lives in the city and often hangs around palestinians and non-jews (i’m married to a one), i must tell you, your hate drove you out of your senses. what kind of statement is that? what’s the subtext? think of what you’re implying. there are so many bad things worth condemning here, why jump overboard and make a fool of yourself?
sad.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:10:55 +0000

If the courts show any justice (and court justice is usually very slow) it will be in areas deemed soverign Israeli territory.
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I said “any justice”–not “all justice.”

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:46:52 +0000

This family is just surviving. No non-Jews are in safe in Israel, specially in Jerusalem.

By: sh

sh — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:14:41 +0000

That news was one happy moment in an otherwise very bad news day yesterday.
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Days before they were going to be evicted, the JNF was bombarded with horrified letters from both here and abroad and were moved to put the plan on hold subject to further clarification. That’s a lesson to retain.