By BEN HUBBARD (AP) – 58 minutes ago
JERUSALEM — Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families in east Jerusalem on Sunday, then allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes, drawing criticism from Palestinians, the United Nations and the State Department.It's one thing to be choked about borders redrawn 40 or 60 years ago and quite another to be choked about borders drawn through your living room right now.
[Chris Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. agency in charge of Palestinian refugees,] said the families had lived in the homes for more than 50 years.Strangely enough, this is the very reason I yield to the idea that Israel is not going away.
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Nice try. But if nobody's getting worked up over the collective punishment and horrendous oppression of half a million innocent Gazans, it's hard to see why the Israelis should have any concern about world opinion.
Hell, look how many decades it took for the world to get seriously exercised about apartheid in south africa. Of course, in the long run, the Israelis should take note of how that all worked out in the end...
Israeli police cited a ruling by the country's Supreme Court that the houses belonged to Jews and that the Arab families had been living there illegally.
Gunness said the families had lived in the homes for more than 50 years.
The status of east Jerusalem is one of the most explosive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel took control of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it, a move not recognized by any other country.
Is the source of the claim of prior ownership in the bible or something?
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Is the source of the claim of prior ownership in the bible or something?
1956, so pretty much, yeah. Surprised they made it past the dinosaurs.
I bet they didn't have official Israeli birth certificates either.
That's right, no vault copy, no house.
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