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Every time my attention is captured by a one-sided article like this about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, whether it favors one side or the oth
by totalZero 5y ago
Every time my attention is captured by a one-sided article like this about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, whether it favors one side or the other, I look online to see whether there's another side to the story. As always, there is[0][1][2].
If your goal was to clarify the dispute, I think you chose a poor article with which to do so. It is difficult to determine who is credible and who is not among many of these specialty publications and nonprofits, and they are rarely circumspect. I doubt that there is a clear legal history to how one family or sect owns land that another family or sect has lived on for half a century or more. It doesn't pass the smell test. In the US we would perhaps discuss prescriptive easement or adverse possession, but in Israel and Palestine most of the legal arguments seem like a smokescreen for strong-arm tactics.
[0] http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/israels-screen-of-legality-behind-the-sheikh-jarrah-dispossession/ http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/israels-screen-of-le...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/east-jerusalems-sheikh-jarrah-becomes-emblem-palestinian-struggle-2021-05-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/east-jerusalems-sh...
[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/sheikh-jarrah-residents-speak-out-on-israels-forced-expulsions https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/sheikh-jarrah-resid...
- tguvot 5y agoThose articles are pretty much absent of any facts with regards to this dispute, while article that I posted presents details of legal cases over past 40 or 50 years and go back 140 years ago to time when land in question was purchased during days of Ottoman empire