Tag: Ethnic Cleansing

  • Campaigners for evicted Palestinians call on Barack Obama to intervene

    Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 20 July 2009 Campaigners protesting at the eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem to make way for a Jewish development today appealed to President Barack Obama to stop the settlement going ahead. The families, who have lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood north of the…

  • Most Arabs can’t buy most homes in West Jerusalem

    Nir Hasson | Ha’aretz 21 July 2009 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed this week that Jerusalem is an “open city” that permits all its inhabitants, Jewish and Palestinian, to purchase homes in both its eastern and western parts. “Our policy is that Jerusalem residents can purchase apartments anywhere in the city. There is no ban…

  • ‘No difference to U.S. between outpost, East Jerusalem construction’

    Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid & Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 20 July 2009 The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze on settlement construction, American sources have informed both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This clarification came in the context of…