Settlers forcibly evict Palestinian families from Silwan homes

[azurnoir]

At least nine Palestinians were left homeless on Monday after settlers escorted by Israeli security personnel forcibly evicted them from their homes in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

The Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center said a large group of Israeli border police and officers escorted staff from the far-right Israeli Ateret Cohanim organization to the Batn al-Hawa area of the neighborhood.

Israeli forces then surrounded two Palestinian houses belonging to the Abu Nab family before ransacking the property and evicting the families.

Helicopters were seen in the area, together with Israeli police dogs, during the eviction.

Zuheri al-Rajabi, a local Batan al-Hawa committee member, told Ma'an that Ateret Cohanim -- a group which works for a Jewish majority in the Old City and surrounding Palestinian neighborhoods -- claimed the Abu Nab properties were owned by the organization pre-1948.

https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768351

[geek tragedy]

1. I'm sure if those evicted Palestinians are resentful, it will be because

of incitement by Abbas, not because Israel mistreated them.

/hasbara

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. ...

[King_David]

4. Your "joke" or sarcasm or satire ...

Garnered a "lot" of support from group member that I'm sure you're very happy about...credibility.

lol

[geek tragedy]

7. I am merely reciting the logic used by the pro-israel contingent here and elsewhere

The theory propounded regarding Paletinians violence is that all the violence is solely because the Palestinians are horrible, nasty fanatics who have a horrible, nasty, fanatical culture and who hate Jews more than their own children. Nothing is Israel's fault, nothing nothing nothing. Palestinians should be grateful to be occupied and disenfranchised and treated like animals.

Israel as a nation believes that "they hate us for our freedom." Even while banishing any expression of concern for Palestinians as human beings from public discourse, aside from a few magazines from the infamous 'left.'

So, this kind of abuse will continue, and Israel will further cement its own doom, because the Israelis do not want peace, they just want to believe that nothing is their fault.

[King_David]

9. I realize that

Do you have any friends that are pro Israel?

Or is that a line in the sand?

[geek tragedy]

10. I live in NYC. So, yes, many.

The topic does not come up, ever.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. You don't seem to be able to let go of

"group member" whomever that person is?

[Little Tich]

3. Hate site: Israeli Police Evacuates Arab Squatters from Historic Silwan Yemenite Synagogue

Source: Jewish Press

Against the background of the deteriorating security in Jerusalem, Arab families living in the synagogue in Kfar Shiloah (Silwan neighborhood) east of the city were evacuated Monday morning, NRG reported. The decision to evacuate the building was reached only after a petition by representatives of the Ateret Cohanim NGO had been accepted by the District Court.

Last May, members of Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish Israeli organization that also runs a yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, entered the ancient Ohel Shlomo synagogue, built by Yemenites in the 19th century, and located about a hundred yards from Beit Yonatan, an apartment building named after Jonathan Pollard and owned by Ateret Cohanim. Beit Yonatan has been sealed back in 2011, on the orders of Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, despite Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s objections.

At the time, Mayor Barkat conditioned the sealing of Beit Yonatan on the evacuation of the Abu Nab family, who lived in the synagogue—in the context of the City’s uniform enforcement of demolition orders that does not discriminate between sectors.

In recent years, the Abu Nabs fought a legal battle against the Synagogue Sanctuary over their home ownership, until, earlier this year, the District Court in Jerusalem ruled that the Abu Nabs had to vacate the building.

Read more: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israeli-police-evacuated-arab-families-from-historic-silwan-yemenite-synagogue/2015/10/19/

Note: I know that Jewish Press is a hate site, but I think it's important to know the racist version of events.

[azurnoir]

5. Thanks I found the ownership pre-1948 angle interesting

apparently some ownership means more than others at least when Israeli Jews are concerned vs Palestinians

[Little Tich]

6. In the Jewish State, Jewish rights alway trump human rights. n/t