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Jerusalem council set to approve Jewish housing in Arab neighborhood - Ha'aretz

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ByNir Hasson

The Jerusalem Municipal Committee for Planning and Building is expected to approve Monday the construction of two buildings that will include 13 apartments for Jewish residents in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

Backing the plan are settler organizations who currently occupy three homes in the neighborhood. Following the plan's approval, it will be necessary to evict a number of Palestinian families living on the site in order for construction to commence.

Settlers evict Palestinians from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, December 1, 2009

Settlers evict Palestinians from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, December 1, 2009.

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The planning committee is also expected to approve a new access road south of Har Homa, which will enable the expansion of the neighborhood.

According to the plan to be brought today for approval, two buildings will be razed in the western part of the neighborhood where, until now, nearly no Jews live. In its place, two new buildings will be built. One will have 10 apartments and the other, three.

In both cases Chaim Silverstein, a well known figure in right-wing circles in Jerusalem, is proposing the plans to the municipality. The companies behind the project are registered in the United States, and are probably front companies set up by right-wing activists in order to transfer funds for the purchase of real estate in Israel.

Silverstein has power of attorney rights in both companies, Debril and Velpin.

For the past 18 months there has been a struggle between Arabs and Jews over the activities of settlers in Sheikh Jarrah and against efforts to evict Palestinian families from the neighborhood.

The settlers have been able to expand their hold in the neighborhood because prior to 1948 there was a Jewish neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah. The court recognized the right of Jews who inherited properties to reclaim their properties. Since then, the settlers are working hard to convince the owners of the properties to sell them the rights so that they could evict the Palestinians and populate the area with Jewish families.

A Supreme Court ruling in 2001 included the possibility of applying for Jewish property rights in the western portion of the neighborhood, and right-wing activists announced that they intended to expand their activities in the area over that portion of Sheikh Jarrah.

"Continuing Jewish settlement in Sheikh Jarrah will seriously harm relations with the Palestinians and will break all agreements that Jewish neighborhoods will remain under Israeli sovereignty and Arab neighborhoods will be under Palestinian sovereignty," says Yosef Alalu, a Meretz city councillor.

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Reply again LatestMost ViewedMost RatedOpen all 36.2651View >Not Arab, Jerusalem neighbourhood Jochai Rubinstein 07.02.11 11:50

no country, Arab or else would accept the behaviour of the Sheikh Jarrah inhabitants.

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35.2373View >Ghetto Ralph 07.02.11 11:28

The far left wants the Jews in the Ghetto and the Arabs in a township.There are no more places forbidden to Jews in Israel.

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34.10721View >How does the Supreme Court justify the illegal annexation of E. Jerusalem? Michael UK 07.02.11 11:15

Hard to take a court seriously that doesn't seem to be aware that it hascontradicted itself on the occupation. It has judged that Israel is inbelligerent occuptation of the West Bank, yet it refuses to declare allIsraeli settlements there illegal as layed down in the Geneva Conventionand it seems to recognise the illegal Israeli annexation of E.Jerusalem, even, though it's also part of the West Bank.

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33.1742View >Bad Journalism Thomas 07.02.11 10:18

If you want to present all sides how about telling us exactly why didthe supreme court made its ruling. As it is now it looks like a biasedarticle that present it as though the Supreme court made a bad decisionexcept we have no idea whats behind all of it.

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32.11017View >Israel is remarkably.... David 07.02.11 10:14

usurping, racist, and outright ruthless. Why our tax payers moneycontinues to go to this welfare state is mind-numbing. We have over 50million people under the poverty line, and 3B is going to hooligansintolerable of their neighbors and international law.

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31.2183View >BUILD!! Dan Miller 07.02.11 09:30

Building is only an excuse for the arabs to avoid peace. BUILD BABY BUILD!!

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30.7925View >Israel's time will come ... one day Baci302 07.02.11 09:15

Eventually, the old school jews in the U.S. will die off and then NO ONEwill give a rat's ass about Israel.

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29.23104View >BUILDING ISRAEL Momma Legga 07.02.11 09:10

Hooray!! It's about time that Jews were permitted to build and live inIsrael, all of Israel.

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7520View >Mamma Logga BUILDING PALESTINE 07.02.11 11:40

Hooray!! It's about time that Palestinians were permitted to build andlive in Israel, all of Israel.

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28.6511View >Egypt today, Israel tomorrow Maureen Ann 07.02.11 09:00

Change is coming!

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27.2186View >Property Rights David S 07.02.11 08:55

It is really amazing how many people are against property ownersregaining their land which was stolen from them under the JordanianGovernment. The poor "palestinians" are being rob and shouldbe compensated. Well, no one is calling for the Jews who were expelledfrom Islamic Countries to be compensated for the losses. The EthnicCleansing was started by the Arabs. They don't like when the RIGHTFULOWNERS come back and take possession of what is theirs. When Arabsstart respecting what belongs to others, then others will startrespecting them. The world does not run on Sharia Law!

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527View >But when the WB Pals complain that we are stealing their land Esther R 07.02.11 11:28

... who heeds that?!... where is equal and reciprocal justice?

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26.982View >at #3 most of the world DOES NOT KNOW what israel does. They just knowit exists. We need to educate the world what israel does just likeisrael is educating the world about the Holocaust Monsignor du Tres 07.02.11 08:46

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25.635View >Nobody's noticed what is happening in Egypt? Mike A 07.02.11 08:45

You think that it's "business as usual"? Methinks somebody'sgot to wake up and smell the coffee before all hell breaks loose!

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24.1357View >why aren't people equally outraged at me 07.02.11 08:28

the arab property owners that sold the buildings?

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23.614View >Just an observation. li 07.02.11 08:27

Right now is probably the single most important time, in at least 40years, for the state of Israel not to antagonize local populations.Israel's next war will be in the cities and acts like this will eachhave echos.

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22.2086View >Wow, 13 apartments jonny K. 07.02.11 08:10

meanwhile in the Arab country of Sudan probably 13 women were raped, 13children killed, not to mention the 13 more Black muslims on top ofmillions displaced by the Arab Muslims. All you Israel haters need toget lives, and do some reading on some REAL oppression committed byMuslim countries every second of every day that are infinitely worsethan building 13 freakin apartments.

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21.4318View >Settlers bulsy as beavers working for one state solution Ivar 07.02.11 08:06

The two state solution is dead, long live the one state solution! Bravo settlers

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20.534View >When will they learn?? Erik 07.02.11 07:48

Injustice has a limited shelf-life - vide Tunisia, Egypt, (... Gaza,Syria, Lebanon, Iran, ... Israel?)

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19.618View >Turn about is fair play Crazy Horse 07.02.11 07:48

Silverstein and his cohorts in these American "front"companies deserve to be arrested by US marshals and sent to Guantanamoto be held with the other terrorists. The assets of those Jewish frontcompanies should be attached and frozen just like those of thePalestinian front companies that were funding groups in Gaza and theWest Bank.

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18.9013View >There Should be Equal Treatment Josh 07.02.11 07:47

For many years Israeli Arabs have sought to reclaim their property thatoften they were evicted from by force during the war for independence.There are many complicated laws dealing with this in Israel. No arab, tomy knowledge, has ever succeeded in their attempts (even when succeedingin the courts the military and goverment have stepped in to preventtheir attempts). Nevermind all the Palestinians who fled the country andhave not been allowed to return...there are many, many examples ofIsraeli Arabs...in other words people who are citizens of Israel whonever left Israel but who are not allowed to go back to their prewarhomes. Why now are Jews (of which I am one) allowed to evict arabs outof homes based on some prewar Jewish ownership (the original ownersaren't even reclaiming the property) in a densely arab neighborhood ofeast jerusalem. This to me is apartheid, simply put, applying the lawquite differently to different racial groups....even to those who dohold citizenship. I can't understand this. This is not democracy.

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6210View >totally agree 07.02.11 11:21

The funny thing is when you tell this to the people in Europe theyusualy dont believe you and say its palestinian propaganda!

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1776View >No Arab owned Property in Palestine. Jochai Rubinstein 07.02.11 11:27

Every inch of Palestine was baught by Israelis.

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17.2769View >Undoing the ethnic cleansing of Jews IW 07.02.11 07:38

To all the knee-jerk Israel-bashers: these properties were owned by Jewsbefore the area was ethnically cleansed by their Palestinian neighborsand the Jordanians. It is long past time that this wrong was righted andthe properties returned to its rightful owners. And to those who thinkthat somehow Jews have no "right" to live in areas where theyformerly lived, too bad.

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16.7913View >Israel does not want peace. Maki 07.02.11 06:57

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15.2281View >it's none of your freaking business, what Israel builds in Ierushalaim. Miron 07.02.11 06:54

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14.1879View >This is great! Rachel 07.02.11 06:49

Jews rebuilding in East Jerusalem is a good thing.

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13.7511View >settlements gary albert 07.02.11 06:43

It is amazing we have not learned anything. These settlerments are aroadblock to peace. Its a shame. we are in 2011. nothing has changed.This goverment should resign. ,I am a proud jew who is a zionist, noton the back of arabs. Its 2011. The times they are a changing.

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12.1118View >That decisions affecting TC, California 07.02.11 06:35

the peace and security of Israel can be left to the Jerusalem PlanningCommittee is obviously a ruse for the government to avoid responsibilityfor decisions that are clearly its own.

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331View >Bibi's been letting this sort of 'hands off' thing happen all along Woof! 07.02.11 09:00

And not just in Jerusalem

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11.28130View >We all seen what happened in Egypt Daniel 07.02.11 06:22

All these peace agreements could be turned over at the drop of the hatby arab sides. Israelis, do not give any land for any kind of so-calledpeace agreement as you already experienced giving out land to gaza...and turmoil in Egypt where another deadly islamic entity wiggles its wayto the government... Build settlements and populate Israeli Land withJewish People. Arabs have so mcuh land it is not even funny. Jordan canshare some land with palestinians, the can easily afford that...

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3710View >plenty of room for Jews David Lucier 07.02.11 07:14

As we know, there's plenty of room for Arabs in the Middle East; butthere's a lot of resistance to moving Arabs out of"Palestine." Why not have Jews take over Manhattan, and movein, using the same techniques as the Jewish Fund did in"Israel." Everything's for sale in the US and New York City isa perfect place for immigration, much better than Jerusalem; and thenon-Jewish population can move easily to any other part of the NorthAmerican Continent. ...no problem.

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72View >If you behave like a child, you will be spanked like a child, Kiev500 07.02.11 07:52

Of course it's for your own good.

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4012View >pssst! Hey, Daniel! Mr.Giggles 07.02.11 09:39

Giving away land is not the same thing as relinquishing an illegaloccupation of land. Gaza never belonged to Israel, and neither does E.Jerusalem. Also, I'm thinking you learned the wrong lesson from theEgyptian protests.

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3113View >USA Sami 07.02.11 10:37

Hey Buddy, Arabs are the owner of the land .By the way ,New york canalso afford few more Israelis so you can get you luggage and move there.Anything not built in fairness and Justice will never last and whathappened in Egypt inshallah will change everything in thar Region. livewith Peace and with the hate-------

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10.11923View >ISRAEL WILL NEVER LEARN! EL 07.02.11 06:21

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9.19228View >Ethnic Cleansing Adam 07.02.11 06:12

More ethnic cleansing from good old Israel. A light unto nations...mybutt.

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1561View >Buried in the 7th Paragraph... Eve 07.02.11 06:51

The headline screams "Arab Neighborhood." Only in the 7thparagraph is there reference to the fact that that this has long beenJewish-owned land and that Arabs expelled the Jews decades ago andoccupied thier homes. Reclaiming what belongs to you and has been takenaway by force is not "ethnic cleansing" in any honest use ofthe term.

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1055View >Pitiful SDHD 07.02.11 07:02

A few evictions of people living on properties which are to be developedisn't ethnic cleansing. Arabs live in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza...those areas haven't been ethnically cleansed. The only time they wereethnically cleansed were when Egypt and Jordan captured the West Bank,Gaza and East Jerusalem and ethnically cleansed them of Jews. Jewsreclaiming their properties is the furthest thing from ethnic cleansing.

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618View >eve dee 07.02.11 10:49

Can the Arabs get back their properties that were stolen in West Jerusalem!

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8.16432View >And the orchestra played on Logios 07.02.11 06:03

More and more countries around the world get disgusted with Israel andside with the Palestinians, even supporting the 1967 borders, but Israelkeeps playing the same tune. Truth be told, this is a relatively goodtime for Israel to act in this way. The world is occupied with the riotsin Egypt and instability in the Middle East, so not many countries willcomplain now about new construction in Jerusalem. But the eating up ofland contested by the Palestinians will not be forgotten, and come thisSeptember, the chances are the UN General Assembly will approve aPalestinian state in the '67 borders. After that, it will be almostimpossible to agree on anything less, other than exchange of territory.

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538View >Uh, not really!! Dan Miller 07.02.11 09:30

Check your facts

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7.40152View >This is a Blessing Abnezra 07.02.11 06:00

Finally the Jews are rebuilding the ancient Jewish street of Shimon Hatzadik.

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229View >Yes,"Finally Jews are rebuilding the ancient Jewish street ofShimon Hatzadik. " Settler 07.02.11 08:25

built with the nice jewich tombs all over.And arabic neighboros hasnothing to do only to take care and tide this nice jewish cemetry insideSheikh Jerrah. "Shimon Hatzadic" is the nice name for newjewish cemetry.

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2213View >Amen! Zionist 07.02.11 08:59

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353View >... in the land known as "Palestine"!!!! Baci302 07.02.11 09:12

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437View >Stealing Javed 07.02.11 09:43

Rebuilding the ancient Jewish street of Shimon Hatzadik. on stolen land? Robbed out of pals ? I am sure God will be satisfied with you.

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6.36134View >Supreme Court bill 07.02.11 05:56

The SUPREME cOURT RULED THE PROPERTY BELONGS TO jEWS. Is Haaretz againstthe rule of law?

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9721View >who sets on the supreme court omri 07.02.11 06:10

Who sets on the supreme court Ahmad and Ali, or David and Yezhak? andyou are talking about justice!!! And who makes the laws???

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8918View >The Israeli supreme court makes lots of rulings TC, California 07.02.11 06:36

that the government and the settlers ignore all the time. Bill, are youagainst the rule of law?

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444View >ICJ at the Hague Ruling - 2004 Bill 07.02.11 08:14

The ICJ ruling at the Hague unaminously ruled 13-0 that Israelisettlements are illegal. PERIOD!! Bill, what do you not understandabout that?? Ahh, better to live in your own fantasy land where thetruth is not important.

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473View >And those Jews are also citizens of the occupying power Johnboy 07.02.11 08:35

So wether (or not) they own the property is simply irrelevany: int'l lawstates very, very clearly that an occupying power MUST NOT allow this tohappen. So if these Jews want to "develop" their property thenthey must wait until the occupation has ended before they can move inand start evicting.

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314View >Evicting families is wrong David 07.02.11 09:53

Evicting families so you can move in a group of heavily armed occupationsettlers is wrong. Hopefully the Israeli's will start to see right fromwrong and take a stand. Learn from the Egytian's, you can make a changeand save face.

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301View >How did the court reach its ruling? Thomas 07.02.11 10:13

oh that's right you don't know either!

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335View >Israel and the Rule of Law Doug 07.02.11 10:48

UNSC 242 outlaws Israel Occupation of lands outside the Green Line The4th Geneva Convention outlaws colonizing conquered territory The UNCharter requires all members to obey all UNSC resolutions.

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5.43150View >Since Jews own that land and Arabs are illegally squatting there James Meeker 07.02.11 05:55

The headline should reflect that. Justice is being done.

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393View >Yet Israeli Arabs who lose land in same year did not get their land back Bloodyscot 07.02.11 08:19

Israel did not control area until 1967 yet ruled on actions from 1948 orbefore, while land under Israel control in 1948 they ruled the other wayon similar actions with Jews gaining land in both.

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443View >Those Jews are also citizens of the occupying power. Johnboy 07.02.11 08:30

Therefore Article 49 of Geneva Convention IV applies i.e. the occupyingpower is unconditionally prohibited from allowing this to happen FOR ASLONG AS THAT OCCUPATION CONTINUES. "Justice is being done"No, it isn't, because FOR AS LONG AS THAT OCCUPATION CONTINUES theoccupying power is presuming a jurisdiction that it simply does nothave.

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384View >same justice should apply for palestiians just facts 07.02.11 09:52

If jews that have inherited in 1948 of before houses in Jerusalem yesthey have the right to reclaim them BUT the same rule should apply topalestinians whose properties were taken by jews in Tel Aviv end Haifaand elsewhere , they also have the right to claim back their properties(it is called the right of return) Good luck !

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242View >do you have act of property to show us? tia_algeria 07.02.11 10:06

I am waiting......

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4.12623View >Bringing Egypt to Jerusalem Mark of Lewiston 07.02.11 05:54

It would seem that the Israeli right is determined to bring the Egyptian"virus" to Jerusalem. Virus is John McCain's term. Is Israelon such good terms with its Arab citizen population and with thePalestinian under population so that the democracy movement will have noimpact? Or is the plan to out-Mubarak Mubarak in suppressing the movement?

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3.18937View >Israel has lost it's morals. David 07.02.11 05:52

Evicting families in the name of occupation, Israel is truly revealingitself to the world.

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12914View >Take take take and hide behind God USA Citizne 07.02.11 06:14

Don't create peace, don't let people live as one side by side and blameit all on God. Sounds reasonable ...To anyone out of their mind!

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708View >Take take take and hide behind God USA Citizne 07.02.11 06:14

Don't create peace, don't let people live as one side by side and blameit all on God. Sounds reasonable ...To anyone out of their mind!

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988View >Lame SDHD 07.02.11 06:18

Property owners often get to evict tenants if they are developing their properties.

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434View >SDHD Pity it ISN'T in Israel. eh! talknic 07.02.11 07:48

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553View >Not if they are citizens of the occupying power, no, SDHD, they don't Johnboy 07.02.11 08:27

Citizens of the occupying power have to WAIT until the occupation isended before they can move in to "develop" their properties.You know, Geneva Convention IV, Article 49 'n' all.....

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453View >So does that mean that the refugees can reclaim their properties, SDHD? I 07.02.11 08:58

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625View > Israel has lost it's morals ? snag 07.02.11 10:25

What morals ? You can't lose something you don't have.

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2.16633View >In the name of god Shane Onu 07.02.11 05:46

Picture worth thousands of words. Settlers = shame on Jews, shame onJudaism. Fundamentalists everywhere of every stripe. Shame on you.

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875View >shame on Arabs JaN 07.02.11 09:29

for attacking Israel,now they suffer,looks fair in my books!!

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1.17520View >Like clockwork...... Johnboy 07.02.11 05:44

Bibi's "gestures" got Israel through the Quartet meetingwithout being condemned, and now that the meeting is over it's back toBusiness As Usual. How predictable....

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965View >Business as usual JaN 07.02.11 09:27

Jewish country ,Jewish land so remember winners are grinners and do asthey like. Arabs start a war and lose it the spoils go to the victor!

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