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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.
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Settlers evict Palestinians from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, December 1, 2009.
Photo by: APThe 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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no country, Arab or else would accept the behaviour of the Sheikh Jarrah inhabitants.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 35.2373View >Ghetto Ralph 07.02.11 11:28The far left wants the Jews in the Ghetto and the Arabs in a township.There are no more places forbidden to Jews in Israel.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 34.10721View >How does the Supreme Court justify the illegal annexation of E. Jerusalem? Michael UK 07.02.11 11:15Hard 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 33.1742View >Bad Journalism Thomas 07.02.11 10:18If 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 32.11017View >Israel is remarkably.... David 07.02.11 10:14usurping, 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 31.2183View >BUILD!! Dan Miller 07.02.11 09:30Building is only an excuse for the arabs to avoid peace. BUILD BABY BUILD!!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 30.7925View >Israel's time will come ... one day Baci302 07.02.11 09:15Eventually, the old school jews in the U.S. will die off and then NO ONEwill give a rat's ass about Israel.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 29.23104View >BUILDING ISRAEL Momma Legga 07.02.11 09:10Hooray!! It's about time that Jews were permitted to build and live inIsrael, all of Israel.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt7520View >Mamma Logga BUILDING PALESTINE 07.02.11 11:40Hooray!! It's about time that Palestinians were permitted to build andlive in Israel, all of Israel.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 28.6511View >Egypt today, Israel tomorrow Maureen Ann 07.02.11 09:00Change is coming!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 27.2186View >Property Rights David S 07.02.11 08:55It 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!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt527View >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?
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 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 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 25.635View >Nobody's noticed what is happening in Egypt? Mike A 07.02.11 08:45You think that it's "business as usual"? Methinks somebody'sgot to wake up and smell the coffee before all hell breaks loose!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 24.1357View >why aren't people equally outraged at me 07.02.11 08:28the arab property owners that sold the buildings?
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 23.614View >Just an observation. li 07.02.11 08:27Right 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 22.2086View >Wow, 13 apartments jonny K. 07.02.11 08:10meanwhile 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 21.4318View >Settlers bulsy as beavers working for one state solution Ivar 07.02.11 08:06The two state solution is dead, long live the one state solution! Bravo settlers
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 20.534View >When will they learn?? Erik 07.02.11 07:48Injustice has a limited shelf-life - vide Tunisia, Egypt, (... Gaza,Syria, Lebanon, Iran, ... Israel?)
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 19.618View >Turn about is fair play Crazy Horse 07.02.11 07:48Silverstein 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 18.9013View >There Should be Equal Treatment Josh 07.02.11 07:47For 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt6210View >totally agree 07.02.11 11:21The funny thing is when you tell this to the people in Europe theyusualy dont believe you and say its palestinian propaganda!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt1776View >No Arab owned Property in Palestine. Jochai Rubinstein 07.02.11 11:27Every inch of Palestine was baught by Israelis.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 17.2769View >Undoing the ethnic cleansing of Jews IW 07.02.11 07:38To 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 16.7913View >Israel does not want peace. Maki 07.02.11 06:57 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 15.2281View >it's none of your freaking business, what Israel builds in Ierushalaim. Miron 07.02.11 06:54 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 14.1879View >This is great! Rachel 07.02.11 06:49Jews rebuilding in East Jerusalem is a good thing.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 13.7511View >settlements gary albert 07.02.11 06:43It 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 12.1118View >That decisions affecting TC, California 07.02.11 06:35the 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt331View >Bibi's been letting this sort of 'hands off' thing happen all along Woof! 07.02.11 09:00And not just in Jerusalem
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 11.28130View >We all seen what happened in Egypt Daniel 07.02.11 06:22All 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...
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt3710View >plenty of room for Jews David Lucier 07.02.11 07:14As 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt72View >If you behave like a child, you will be spanked like a child, Kiev500 07.02.11 07:52Of course it's for your own good.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt4012View >pssst! Hey, Daniel! Mr.Giggles 07.02.11 09:39Giving 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt3113View >USA Sami 07.02.11 10:37Hey 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-------
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 10.11923View >ISRAEL WILL NEVER LEARN! EL 07.02.11 06:21 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 9.19228View >Ethnic Cleansing Adam 07.02.11 06:12More ethnic cleansing from good old Israel. A light unto nations...mybutt.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt1561View >Buried in the 7th Paragraph... Eve 07.02.11 06:51The 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt1055View >Pitiful SDHD 07.02.11 07:02A 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt618View >eve dee 07.02.11 10:49Can the Arabs get back their properties that were stolen in West Jerusalem!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 8.16432View >And the orchestra played on Logios 07.02.11 06:03More 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt538View >Uh, not really!! Dan Miller 07.02.11 09:30Check your facts
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 7.40152View >This is a Blessing Abnezra 07.02.11 06:00Finally the Jews are rebuilding the ancient Jewish street of Shimon Hatzadik.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt229View >Yes,"Finally Jews are rebuilding the ancient Jewish street ofShimon Hatzadik. " Settler 07.02.11 08:25built 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt2213View >Amen! Zionist 07.02.11 08:59 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt353View >... in the land known as "Palestine"!!!! Baci302 07.02.11 09:12 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt437View >Stealing Javed 07.02.11 09:43Rebuilding the ancient Jewish street of Shimon Hatzadik. on stolen land? Robbed out of pals ? I am sure God will be satisfied with you.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 6.36134View >Supreme Court bill 07.02.11 05:56The SUPREME cOURT RULED THE PROPERTY BELONGS TO jEWS. Is Haaretz againstthe rule of law?
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt9721View >who sets on the supreme court omri 07.02.11 06:10Who sets on the supreme court Ahmad and Ali, or David and Yezhak? andyou are talking about justice!!! And who makes the laws???
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt8918View >The Israeli supreme court makes lots of rulings TC, California 07.02.11 06:36that the government and the settlers ignore all the time. Bill, are youagainst the rule of law?
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt444View >ICJ at the Hague Ruling - 2004 Bill 07.02.11 08:14The 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt473View >And those Jews are also citizens of the occupying power Johnboy 07.02.11 08:35So 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt314View >Evicting families is wrong David 07.02.11 09:53Evicting 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt301View >How did the court reach its ruling? Thomas 07.02.11 10:13oh that's right you don't know either!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt335View >Israel and the Rule of Law Doug 07.02.11 10:48UNSC 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 5.43150View >Since Jews own that land and Arabs are illegally squatting there James Meeker 07.02.11 05:55The headline should reflect that. Justice is being done.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt393View >Yet Israeli Arabs who lose land in same year did not get their land back Bloodyscot 07.02.11 08:19Israel 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt443View >Those Jews are also citizens of the occupying power. Johnboy 07.02.11 08:30Therefore 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.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt384View >same justice should apply for palestiians just facts 07.02.11 09:52If 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 !
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt242View >do you have act of property to show us? tia_algeria 07.02.11 10:06I am waiting......
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 4.12623View >Bringing Egypt to Jerusalem Mark of Lewiston 07.02.11 05:54It 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?
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 3.18937View >Israel has lost it's morals. David 07.02.11 05:52Evicting families in the name of occupation, Israel is truly revealingitself to the world.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt12914View >Take take take and hide behind God USA Citizne 07.02.11 06:14Don'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!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt708View >Take take take and hide behind God USA Citizne 07.02.11 06:14Don'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!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt988View >Lame SDHD 07.02.11 06:18Property owners often get to evict tenants if they are developing their properties.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt434View >SDHD Pity it ISN'T in Israel. eh! talknic 07.02.11 07:48 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt553View >Not if they are citizens of the occupying power, no, SDHD, they don't Johnboy 07.02.11 08:27Citizens 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.....
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt453View >So does that mean that the refugees can reclaim their properties, SDHD? I 07.02.11 08:58 Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt625View > Israel has lost it's morals ? snag 07.02.11 10:25What morals ? You can't lose something you don't have.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 2.16633View >In the name of god Shane Onu 07.02.11 05:46Picture worth thousands of words. Settlers = shame on Jews, shame onJudaism. Fundamentalists everywhere of every stripe. Shame on you.
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt875View >shame on Arabs JaN 07.02.11 09:29for attacking Israel,now they suffer,looks fair in my books!!
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt 1.17520View >Like clockwork...... Johnboy 07.02.11 05:44Bibi'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....
Reply to this talkbackRate:topbt965View >Business as usual JaN 07.02.11 09:27Jewish 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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