Now, let me see if I have this right. The Jews who have been moved into the homes of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are not the heirs of anyone who owned or inhabited those homes a hundred years ago. Rather, documents from that time establish (decidedly improbably, since we are talking about the Ottoman Period) that the properties belong to Jews. Any Jews, simply as such, who happen to want them. If you are the wrong ethnicity, then, even if your family has lived there for generations and you have done so all your life, tough. Imagine…
Oh, well, I suppose that the remaining Jews in Israel have to go somewhere, and there are really only the Occupied Territories left. If you want a Jewish State, then you have to go to Judea – the effectively self-governing Haredi parts of Jerusalem and outposts on the West Bank, maintained most generously by the State of Israel but so hostile to it as to use force against its teenage conscripts.
In Israel, by contrast, the emphasis long ago shifted from any attempt at a Jewish majority to the hysterical pursuit of a merely non-Arab one. Russians who refuse to eat kosher food, and who insist on taking their IDF oaths on the New Testament alone. Russian Nazis. East Africans who have constructed a religion based on the Old Testament brought by Christian missionaries. Peruvian Indians. Anyone. Absolutely anyone at all. Even the Pashtun are being whispered about as a “Lost Tribe”. They are certainly not Arabs, so watch that space.
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Perhaps you might have noted that the evicted Arabs had not been paying rent on the property. They paid for years and then stopped paying. So, they were evicted.
ReplyDeleteThere'd be no global outcry over that.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, David, it is true.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, the documents on which the Arab side made its claim were forged - as in obviously forged.
So, they were squatters under the law everywhere and, on top of that, they were failing to pay rent, something they had previously done - meaning that such persons had acknowledged that someone else had better rights to the land.
The problem you have is that you read the British press, which has succumbed to baser instincts, believing any trash asserted by Palestinian Arabs while discounting facts that are not subject to discount - all because the British press has an in for the Israelis and thinks that there is some benefit - hard to imagine what, of course, since none will be forthcoming - from Arab nations. Pathetic!!!
President Obama, and pretty much everyone else, has clearly also been reading the British papers (most of which are ferociously pro-Israel, by the way).
ReplyDeleteNo, David,
ReplyDeletePresident Obama wants to appease the Arabs and could not care less about the truth on anything regarding the region.
Another thing, now papers in your part of the world are starting to note that there are problems with the dishonest journalism from your country on this issue. See this article. And, frankly, this article still overlooks facts that show the problem with the nonsense printed in your country that passes for reporting.
ReplyDelete"Appease the Arabs"? They are better American (and far better British) allies than the Israelis have ever made the slightest effort to be. Not that that's saying anything, really.
ReplyDeleteThe first modern wave of Jewish immigration to Israel was in 1881, following the pogroms in eastern Europe.
ReplyDeleteSince 1970 the Israeli state's racial definitions have always been the same as those for Nazi Germany. All one needs to get Israeli citizenship is a Jewish grandparent - although Israeli citizenship is also open to converts.
The definition also applies in Saudi Arabia, where people of Jewish extraction are not even allowed to enter the country.
"The first modern wave of Jewish immigration to Israel was in 1881, following the pogroms in eastern Europe."
ReplyDeleteThey found Jews who had been there continuously, and who were horrified by Zionism.
"Since 1970 the Israeli state's racial definitions have always been the same as those for Nazi Germany."
What, Russian Christians, Russian Nazis, East African Judaisers, Peruvian Indians, and all the rest?
"Israeli citizenship is also open to converts."
Only Orthodox ones. I do wonder why Conseravtive Jews, and some Reform ones such as Melanie Phillips, are so pro-Israeli when Israel recognises absolutely nothing about their religious lives.
Ethnically Jewish converts to Christianity, even if baptised in infancy, can of course forget it, even though people like that did die in the Holocaust.