Comments on: Palestinians protest planned E. Jerusalem national park

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:32:11 +0000

@Menil. 1) In other words, there is no size of national park that the protesters would accept so compromise is really pointless. Sounds familiar.
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2) Thanks. I didn’t realize the protest was against all national parks planned, rather than just this one.

By: Menil

Menil — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:26:08 +0000

1. There were talks of that, however it’s reasonable that the residents would want to continue struggling, since it’s barely enough. Land allocation in Jerusalem is grossly discriminatory, with Palestinians, who account to about 35% of the population get around 12% of the land, and barely any new construction. Since 1967, Israel built only Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, and no Arab ones. Why is that?

2. The plan is to connect this national park with other national parks which do reach Silwan. Look at the map:
http://www.alt-arch.org/images/nationalparks1tn_heb.jpg

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:40:15 +0000

Two things.
1) Didn’t the government cut down the size of the park already to appease the previous protests?
2) How is this park even remotely going to connect to Silwan or Ir David? Dukavevitch should consult a map.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:26:58 +0000

Iran should also be displacing its Jews to Islamize the country. Tit for tat.

@HANAN

The lands and bank accounts Israel seized from Palestinians in 1948, you transferred to Jewish hands because, apparently, when you fled or are expelled from your home, this means a Jew should come to own what’s left behind. The Arab lands in East Jerusalem, even when presently inhabited by Palestinians, should also belong to Jews because some settlers can always show a document proving they owned them back in the 60s or 70s. And the lands you take from Palestinians in the West Bank, should be yours because God gave them to you. You Zionists will always have an excuse, won’t you?

And, um, what authority did Hitler have over Palestine? Why did the Mufti need his permission to carry on any murder of Zionist Jews? Any violence between Zionist Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the period developed spontaneously from conflict over land ownership, with no need of Nazi ideological indoctrination, much less permission, to explain the tensions. If you want to be convincing, try to paint a more plausible, less sensationalist, scenario – you can start that by not using words like “satanic” in your next posts.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:00:44 +0000

I suppose Israel is stealing more land for “national security” reasons?
All this is really about is ethnic cleansing and destruction of culture. As for 1948, hundreds of Palestinian villages were wiped off the face of the map in brutality and murder. These villages were built over and now they are Jewish villages. No matter how you slice it, dice it, whine, cry and claim victim, the truth is already out there.
Isralis may be deluded after decades of rationalizing genocide, but, the world does see it for what it is.
This 2012….. we are supposed to be more civilized and not support a culture of blood lust and terror.

By: hanan

hanan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:39:46 +0000

this is actually a jewish owned land stolen when the mufti got hitler’s premission to implement satanic murders of jews in jerusalem. It was also taken over after 1948 when jordan took over the area. you cannot contest facts and cornell should be viewing you a a stain of ignorance. long live israel

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:23:33 +0000

Some people think that the ethnic cleansing was just something that happend in 1948 and 1967. Obviously its happening everyday and the world arent doing one thing to stop it still the leaders now full well whats going on.