From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis

[ProgressiveMuslim]

By Gideon Levy
Tags: israel news, Palestinians

At the top of the hill, a few dozen meters from where a house now stands, there used to be an irrigation pool for the village citrus groves. I swim every morning at the municipal swimming pool built on the ruins of the village irrigation pool. Palestinian Jaffa oranges grew in the now-vanished groves. My house stands there now. The land was "redeemed," as land acquisition was called in Zionist propaganda. In the case of Sheikh Munis, it was redeemed by force, and Tel Aviv's Ramat Aviv neighborhood was built there, including Tel Aviv University, a magnificent academic institution built on the ruins of a village whose 2,230 inhabitants were surrounded and threatened. They fled, never to return.

All that remains of the large village is Habayit Hayarok (now a conference and party center) another house on Levanon Street and the cemetery, which sits neglected on the outskirts of the parking lot of an intimidating government facility - no outsiders allowed. Of course, there is neither a memorial nor a monument to the village that was wiped off the face of the earth - one of 418.

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The court that sealed the fate of the two Palestinian families and allowed extremist settlers to live in their place has once again laid bare the rule of law's true state in Israel: racist and applying a double-standard, with separate legal systems for Jews and Arabs.


We should perhaps thank the court for its scandalous ruling, which not only sparked a justifiable international wave of protest against Israel, but also revealed its true face. "There are judges in Jerusalem," as Menachem Begin said, and they have made it official: apartheid. Ownership rights are for Jews alone.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105663.html

[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. Crickets. Now there is a shock. nt

[ShadesOfGrey]

2. Thanks for reporting this PM!

Add another travesty to the pile (mountain?)

Israel has shown it's true face to the world this year... and it is an UGLY one.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. AJE interviewed one of the evicted people.

She took the reporter to a location in West Jerusalem where her family had lived for generations before being "displaced" and ending up in the home in East Jerusalem which now has also been destroyed with the land also being turned over to settlers.