Palestinian Family Evicted by Settlers in Jerusalem »
Posted By tehranchik 3 weeks ago in Political News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Israel to halt what he called "provocative" actions after another Palestinian family in East Jerusalem was evicted from their home, the latest in a series of similar incidents. Jewish settlers forced their way into a house in east Jerusalem, using hired guards to evict an elderly Palestinian woman and throwing out other residents' belongings. The settlers displayed what they said was a court order granting them ownership of the single-storey building. Human rights groups said the takeover was part of a push by Jewish settlers to expand their presence in the traditionally Arab sector.
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Justice4All2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Also interesting when they interview the Jewish settlers who defend their actions by reminging everyone that they are gods chosen people.
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Many times the zionist supporters on this topic have insisted that nobody ever makes that claim.
I don't see how a zionist can watch this and still slep at night. My guess is they won't bother to watch.-
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Edmar142 weeks, 6 days ago
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It has nothing to do with being God's chosen people. You aren't that stupid, are you? It has everything to do with the fact that according to the Ottoman and British censuses, Jerusalem was a Jewish city (as was Hebron which is now on the West Bank) before 1947. During the 1948 war, Jordan captured the Old City and expelled every Jew (as they did in Hebron as well). Jews were not allowed to live there, pray there or even set foot in the Old City from 1948 until 1967. Jews aren't allowed to pray on the Temple mount today, even though their temple stood there and the temple mount itself was increased in size by 2/3 around the time of Christ by Herod the Jewish king in order to accommodate a larger Jewish Temple. I don't honestly think that one Muslim ever lost sleep over the expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem in 1948 and they not only don't lose sleep over Jews being forbidden to pray on the Temple mount, but they actually riot if a Jew tries to pray there. As I've said many times, Muslims don't share and history proves it. You blame the Zionists? Try blaming your own people for once. They actually set the precedent. Maybe it's because when Muslims do it, it's OK with you? Muslims have no religious claim to Jerusalem. It isn't even mentioned once in the Koran and just because 2 mosques exist there doesn't give Muslims any rights to Jerusalem. I do believe that the Grand Mosque in Istanbul (what used to be Constantinople) in Turkey sits on top of a former Christian church which was leveled in order to make way for the mosque. So much for Islamic religious tolerance.
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hyperbola2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Why are you lying to Americans again Edmar? If you are actually in the US, we should consider deporting you either as a traitor or as a violator of hate crime legislation for your propagation of robbing, killing, expulsion or placing in concentration camps of over seven million people (and a higher proportion of Palestinian christians than moslems).
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Palestinian Christians: An Historic Community at Risk
On a moonlit December evening in BethlehemÕs Manger Square, seventeen-year-old Johnny Thaljiya was outside his cousin’s souvenir shop. He had just finished the evening mass at the historic Greek Orthodox Church of the Nativity where he served as an altar boy. Suddenly, Johnny let out a scream and grabbed his throat as he fell to his knees and collapsed. Family and friends rushed to his side and realized that Johnny had been shot through the throat by an Israeli sniper, not an unusual fate for young Palestinian men these days. Rushed to the hospital, it was too late to save him. Johnny died within an hour as the number of Palestinian deaths crept toward 800 over the previous 16 months of the al-Aqsa intifada.
Sadly, the international community has done nothing to protect Palestinian youths and other civilians from a fate like that of Johnny Thaljiya. A U.S. veto at the United Nations (UN) has blocked impartial international observers who would function as buffers between the Israeli army and the Palestinians. Today every Palestinian is at risk under this occupying army and increasingly every Israeli is at risk as the violence continues to escalate in the occupied Palestinian areas and inside Israel. ...
.... The British census of 1922 placed the Christian Palestinian population in Jerusalem at just over 51 percent, the majority being of the well-educated mercantile class. Gradually, Zionist settlement increased the proportion of Jews in Palestine, but the Jewish presence in Jerusalem remained relatively small. ...
In 1947 ..... over 50 percent of Jerusalem’s Christians were expelled from their West Jerusalem homes, the largest single numerical decline of Christians in Palestine in history. Hadawi’s study concluded that in Jerusalem a higher proportion of Palestinian Christians became refugees after 1949, a ratio of 37 percent of Christians to 17 percent of the Muslims. The higher ratio of Christians was due in part to the fact that the majority lived in the wealthier western Jerusalem districts seized by Israel during 1948-49. Further, approximately 34 percent of the lands seized by Israel were owned by Palestinian Christian churches, and they were simply taken by force with no compensation given to the previous owners. ....
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfu...
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