The Israeli Supreme Court made a decision, the Arabs did not own nor were they renting the property in question, therefore they were squatters with no rights to the property and can rightfully be kicked out. Britain and the rest of the international community need to stay the hell out of the internal affairs of Israel. The biased international media and world governments do not care about legal rights and an Israeli court decision, only in placating the Arab-muslim world, facts be damned. Whatever fables the Arabs invent are simply taken at face value and Israel automatically becomes the bad guy in their eyes. The Arabs have no right of sovereignty over the eastern part or any other part of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was never the capital of any Arab state. Jerusalem is not mentioned in the koran. Any talk of Jerusalem's importance to islam is a hoax. But it is Judaism's holiest city. All of Jerusalem belongs under Israeli sovereignty.
The British goverment and frankly much of its population are made up of vicious anti-Semites and cowards. It's mindboggling that Europe works feverishly to undermine Israel, a country which contributes to the world in science, medicine and technology. It's only second to the US in technological contributions. Yet Europe is so eager to facilitate its replacement by another dangerous welfare dependent islamic terror state. There is no logic to this policy. I get that the Eurotrash are anti-Semitic, but I would think that at least they would be concerned about their own self-preservation. And how is it in the west's interests to burden itself with a state that not only can't sustain itself, but will use the west's handouts for terrorism against it eventually.
I think its poetic justice that the British are finding themselves being overrun by hordes of muslim savages, imposing their evil culture and laws upon the nation. England is getting everything it deserves for decades of siding with the muslims in their war against Israel. Let the British wallow in the miserable Islamic state of their own making.
The British decide that Israeli law is 'unacceptable'Continue reading Also see Netanyahu to U.S.: Israel will govern itself, thank you.
Tuesday, 4th August 2009
Reaction to the evictions of Arab families from where they were living in the Sheikh Jarrah district of east Jerusalem has universally given the impression that the Israelis threw out Palestinian families from their homes in order to colonise a traditionally Arab area for further ‘illegal’ Jewish ‘settlement’ (see for example reports by the BBC and the Times).
The response by the British government was particularly aggressive. The British consulate said:
We are appalled by the evictions in East Jerusalem. Israel’s claim that the imposition of extremist Jewish settlers into this ancient Arab neighbourhood is a matter for the courts or the municipality is unacceptable. Their actions are incompatible with Israel’s desire for peace. We urge Israel not to allow extremists to set the agenda.
The US and the UN also condemned the evictions:
State Department spokeswoman Megan Mattson said such actions in east Jerusalem constitute violations of Israel’s obligations under US-backed ‘road map’ peace plan. ...Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, called Sunday’s evictions ‘totally unacceptable.’
The hysteria has unleashed yet more vile anti-Israel bigotry – and not just on the left. On Conservative Home’s Centre Right blog, this post featuring video coverage of the evictions provoked vicious attacks on Israel in the readers’ thread, including calls for Israel to be ‘dismantled’, suggestions that Israelis were less than human and comparing their treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazis.
Yet the belief that Israel has turfed out the rightful Arab inhabitants of Sheikh Jarrah could not be further from the truth. What actually happened here was that, after a protracted series of legal battles over a long disputed claim to properties in this area, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the titles properly belonged to Jewish families and that the Arabs living there were illegal squatters. Moreover, although the Arabs claimed the Jewish families had forged their ownership documents, the Supreme Court ruled that it was in fact the Arab documents which had been forged while the Jewish deeds were legitimate. The Jews who moved in were not ‘illegal settlers’. They were finally reclaiming property that was legally theirs, but which had been effectively stolen from them during the illegal annexation of this area by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.
The Jerusalem Post reported some of the details of this complicated story:
The Jewish families and the organization that supported their legal efforts, Nahalat Shimon International, have not made themselves available for comment, but have maintained in previous court hearings that the homes were owned by Jews dating back to the late 19th century, and were abandoned during a spate of Arab attacks in the area in the 1920s and ‘30s.
According to a report issued in May by Ir Amim, a non-profit group that engages Israeli-Palestinian issues in the capital, the Jordanian government took control of these plots under the Enemy Property Law during its rule from 1948 to 1967.
In 1956, 28 Palestinian families that had been receiving refugee assistance from UNRWA were selected to benefit from a relief project, in which they forfeited their refugee aid and moved into homes built on ‘formerly Jewish property leased by the Custodian of Enemy Property to the Ministry of Development,’ the Ir Amim report states. The agreement stipulated that the ownership of the homes was to be put in the families’ names - a step that never took place.
In 1972, two Israeli organizations - the Sephardic Community Committee and the Knesset Yisrael Committee - began notifying the residents that they owed rent, and initiated a process with the Israel Lands Administration to register the land in their names, also based on 19th-century Ottoman-era documents.
In 1982, the two committees brought a lawsuit against 23 families for rent delinquency. Itzhak Toussia-Cohen, the lawyer representing the Palestinians, did not contest the legitimacy of the committees’ ownership claims, and instead arrived at a court-ordered settlement - a binding agreement that can be appealed only if proven to be based on false grounds - that secured ‘protected tenancy’ status for the residents. The families claim Toussia-Cohen did not have their authorization to make this agreement, but it has served as the precedent for rulings on subsequent appeals, including the present-day cases.
While it remains unclear when Nachalat Shimon entered the picture, it became part of the legal proceedings in 2003 when it filed a joint case with the committees against the state and the Kurd family - one of the original families to be sued for rent delinquency and eviction, and which was eventually evicted from their home as well. The years since have resulted in a slew of legal battles between the two sides, now culminating in the eviction.
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