Thursday, May 13, 2021
The cause of the latest violence
Is it because they just magically hate poor, wonderful us, the usual Zionist explanation? Is it because the country is allowing the police to get away with murdering 45 Jews in Meron? The only problems at all at Meron were in the one spot where police closed all four of the exit gates at the Toldos Aaron compound. The problem wasn't 100,000 visitors to the mountain. The problem was the police. And who is talking about that? It's old news. The police get away with it once again. So that could be an explanation on some spiritual level.
But on a practical level, it starts with the crazy settlers starting up with the Arabs. Here's an article in the JPost that explains:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/east-jerusalem-land-ownership-different-rules-for-jews-arabs-667710
Around 300 Arabs, some of whom have lived in Sheikh Jarrah for over 70 years, could be evicted by the Nahalat Shimon Company, which seeks to expand Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, if the High Court does not step in and overturn lower court rulings in favor of eviction.
According to the lower court, the cases are open and shut.
Arabs may have lived in Sheikh Jarrah for 70 years, but the property was never transferred into their names, and Nahalat Shimon purchased the properties from the actual, listed landowners.
Critics have said that this ignores the chaos that many Palestinian Arabs endured while under Jordanian rule from 1948-1967 and that Amman never expected to lose control of east Jerusalem to Israel.
If it had foreseen what might transpire two decades later and that its land records could make a difference in Israeli court proceedings in 2021, maybe Jordan or the Palestinians would have been more careful.
IN ANY case, critics can argue that this is no simple land records issue and also that in many cases, Nahalat Shimon paid such a minuscule amount of the actual value to the sellers, sometimes the state, that their purchases were not authentic.
Critics also say that it cannot be that Jews can make such purchases to get Jewish lands “back,” while there is no comparable way for Arabs to get their lands “back” in Israel proper.
read it all
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/east-jerusalem-land-ownership-different-rules-for-jews-arabs-667710
So the court is in a bind because the land was sold to the original owners who gave it away really. In some respects, this is a clash of European standards and the Arab way, the latter of which is more about who lives there rather than deeds. I believe there are Gemaras which talk about owners abandoning property and it going to whoever dwells there, so the Israeli law probably conflicts with Jewish law anyway. But all that is being pushed to a crisis by - guess who - radical Zionist settlers who insist of living in East Jerusalem, as if there's not reams of vacant land all over the country in which to live.
In sum, our problem isn't the Arabs, it's Zionism. And Jews are getting hurt, Arab children are getting killed, policemen (not that we should have such sympathy for them) are getting hurt, and the government is spending a 100 million dollars on military operations. You could build a hospital with that money and the country is short on hospitals. Our problem is Zionism and most of all so-called religious Zionists who cause more trouble and are responsible for more deaths than we want to think about.
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