232 Palestinians killed, 65 of which were children
1900 wounded
72,000 Palestinians have been "displaced"
12 Israelis killed, 2 of which were children
200 wounded
Many Palestinian schools and hospitals were destroyed. Many buildings were damaged.
I haven't checked it out but I suspect this is way things generally work out after one of these "skirmishes"
“Humanitarian” aid equates to rockets:
https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/16/gaza-hamas-funding-oped-cx_re_0116ehrenfeld.html?sh=731eb2d57afb
In 1948 the Jordanians illegally-occupied East Jerusalem (and also the West Bank). The Jordanians then expelled the Jews from East Jerusalem and then the U.N. settled Arabs (Palestinian Arabs) on that land. Some Jewish landowners have since gone to court to try to get their land back.
Make up your own mind then:
Is this issue about the Jews expelling poor Arabs, or is it really about Jews trying to get their land back after being expelled by the Arabs!
The Jews expelled from East Jerusalem (the “Old City”) by the Jordanians in 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamization_of_East_Jerusalem_under_Jordanian_occupation
What about the Sheikh Jarrah issue specifically?
In 2010 the Israeli Supreme Court reached a decision on a claim made by Jewish land owners. In Sheikh Jarrah, Jewish landowners owned the Freehold (Freehold = “permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will”). The Jordanian authorities had granted leases (Lease = “a contract by which one party conveys land, property, services, etc. to another for a specified time”) to Arabs on that land. The time of those leases having expired, the Jewish landowners applied for the return of their property. The court found in the applicants favor.
The current court case is to decide if the previous judgment should now be enforced.
Clearly there would be no perceived issues, had the landowners been Arab rather than Jewish. The false-accusations of Jews trying to “expel poor Arabs so “settlers” can move in”, is wrong.
By the way, since the Arabs arrived in the land of Israel well after the Jews (see below), and expelled the Jews from East Jerusalem, consider who really should be called “settlers”.
“Understanding the Sheikh Jarrah property dispute”, by Professor Avi Bell, lecturer at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law - see under the heading “The legal basis of the parties’ property rights”:
https://www.jns.org/opinion/understanding-the-sheikh-jarrah-property-dispute/
It is an immoral concept to blame Israel, against whose cities numerous “Palestinian” Arab rockets are frequently fired, for attempting to take the same kind of response, against military targets, that any other country would take, to deter such aggression and murder against civilians, both Jewish and Muslim.
“Palestinian” Arab rocket attacks on Israel (generally):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel
It is likewise an immoral concept to claim that Israel is responsible if there are more casualties on the “Palestinian” Arab side, due to Israel successfully preventing deaths among its citizens, when attacked by the “Palestinian” Arabs.
Brief historical background:
Using “Palestine” to negate the name Israel for the land is misleading, as there has never been any indigenous sovereign state of “Palestine”. The only valid name for the land belongs to the Jewish indigenous sovereign states before the Re-establishment of Israel in 1948: “Israel” or “Judah”.
The Jewish people are the indigenous people of their ancestral homeland of Israel with unbroken presence there since Biblical times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland. Internationally-recognized history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judah. It included the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Capital (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Hasmonean_kingdom.jpg
The “Palestinian Arabs” dropped the name “Arab” because they do not want you to understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate, to take advantage of higher wages through Jewish returnee-exiles:
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“[...] the Zionist project was very attractive to Arabs who were drawn to Palestine by the good wages, healthcare and sanitation offered by the Jews. [...] the Arab population of Palestine increased the most in cities where there were large numbers of Jews [...]
[British] restrictions were placed on Jewish immigration in order to appease Arab troublemakers. However, the situation regarding Arab settlement was much more lax. [...]
the Arab population of Palestine had been in a state of flux for centuries and that the overwhelming majority were migrants from the rest of the Arab world and/or the Ottoman empire. This is important because it tells us that the postmodern notion of a deep-rooted Palestinian Arab history/culture is bogus. [...]
This explains why, historically, Arabs never talked about Palestinian identity - because there wasn’t one. They were Egyptian, Syrian, Moroccan, Iraqi and Ottoman Arabs, and many of them expressed allegiance to the concept of a Greater Syria.”
Extracts source:
“Arab Immigration to Historic Palestine: A Survey”, by Richard Mather:
https://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/arab-immigration-to-historic-palestine-a-survey-by-richard-mather.html
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The “Palestinian” Arabs considering themselves Arab were opposed to being called a “People” until the 1960’s, when they decided it fitted with their intention to steal the land of Israel from its indigenous Jews:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11401/palestinian-people
