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Awarded Iron Cross (WWI) & Silver Star (WWII) - Axis History Forum

The following webpage refers to: “Eight Palestinian refugee families residing in Sheikh Jarrah [who] are facing forced eviction”:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/05/1091492
 
When the United Nations or the International Media refer to this issue, they will not mention that in 1948 the Jordanians illegally-occupied East Jerusalem and the “West Bank”. The Jordanians then expelled the Jews from East Jerusalem and then the U.N. / Jordanians settled Arabs (now known as “Palestinian Arabs” / “Palestinians”) on that land. Some Jewish landowners have since gone to court to apply to retrieve their land.
 
Consider: Is this issue about the Jews expelling poor Arabs, or is it in reality about Jews trying to retrieve their land after having been expelled from it by the Arabs! The Jews expelled from East Jerusalem (the “Old City”) by the Jordanians in 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamizati...occupation
 
 
The Sheikh Jarrah issue:
 
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 legal case has been to decide if the previous judgment should 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. Since the Arabs arrived in the land of Israel well after the Jews, 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/understandin...y-dispute/
 

Quote:“The four Sheikh Jarrah homes under discussion were built on land owned by Jews before the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, when they were seized by Jordan and leased to Palestinian families. After Israel captured the area in the 1967 Six Day War, a 1970 Israeli law transferred all abandoned properties still held by the Jordanian government, including the Sheikh Jarrah homes, to the custody of the Israeli government.
 
The law further obligated the release of properties to the original owners when possible. The Jewish trusts that owned the site appealed for its return to their hands, sparking decades of legal battles with Palestinian residents who vowed to stay put. [...]
 
In early October [2021], the Supreme Court published a compromise proposal: The Palestinians would be allowed to remain as protected tenants and Nahalat Shimon would be provisionally recognized as the owner of the land on which the homes were built. [...]
 
The Palestinians, who see the homes as rightfully theirs, have refused to recognize Nahalat Shimon’s ownership of the homes. [...]
 
Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Tuesday rejected a compromise proposed by Israel’s Supreme Court that could have seen them stave off the threat of eviction for over a decade.
 
[...] around 200 [“Palestinian” Arab] families in East Jerusalem [... have] cases slowly moving through administrative bodies and Israeli courts [...]”

Extract source:
“Sheikh Jarrah Palestinians reject Supreme Court deal to stave off evictions”, by Aaron Boxerman, November 2, 2021:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sheikh-jar...evictions/

The angels of Eretz Yisrael - Israel National News

Researcher: UNRWA is run by terrorists - Israel National News

People are influenced by the Media.
The international media reports the news, as is its job.
There have been many U.N. anti-Israel resolutions: 
For example, between 2012 and 2015, there were “97 resolutions criticizing countries; 
83 out of those 97 have been against Israel (86%)” - see: 
U.N. Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel bias - “The U.N. and Israel: Key Statistics from UN Watch”: 
https://www.unwatch.org/un-israel-key-statistics/

Anti-Israel U.N. resolutions provide a ready-made (anti-Israel) news item.
The reason for so many anti-Israel U.N. resolutions is that of the 57 Arab and Islamic aligned countries who are members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation”, the 56 that are also U.N. members follow the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s” policies on the Arab / Israel dispute when they vote in the U.N. 

If the “Palestinian” Arabs had refrained in accordance with the Oslo Accords, from claiming as they do, ALL the land of Israel, then they would also not have persisted in their propaganda campaign in the United Nations, as reported through the international Media.
In those circumstances, logically the dispute would not have remained such a “big issue” in the Media.
As can be seen above, many U.N. anti-Israel resolutions over a period of time as reported in the Media.
People are influenced by such anti-Israel negative-Media coverage.

The reason for such a high level of attention then, has been that following the “Oslo Accords”, the “Palestinian” Arabs continued with:
Claiming ALL the land of Israel,
seeking to replace Israel with their own state,
and to expel the Jews;
while at the same time seeking to deceive the world they seek a two-state solution, which they do not as is clear from the Palestinian education system (below) and their National Charter (below),
running a consistent campaign through the United Nations as reported by the International Media.

Just to be clear - the “Palestinians” are Arab: 
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Quote:“The Palestinians are those Arab nationals [...]”

Quote:“[...] the Kibbutzim built in strategic locations to defend the land for Jewish settlers as conflicts grew with the Palestinian people [...]”

Quote:“During the Mandatory Palestine period, the term “Palestinian” was used to refer to all people residing there, regardless of religion or ethnicity, and those granted citizenship by the British Mandatory authorities were granted “Palestinian citizenship”.

Quote:“When a user enters the word phrases “Palestinian people” and “Palestinian state” into the Ngram search bar, he discovers that they began appearing only in 1960.” 

When should the premise of an anti-Israel question be challenged, instead of answered?

The following is an example of such a question posted to a different website:
 
“Why doesn’t the US condition aid to Israel to force it negotiate over the Israeli-Palestine Conflict?”
 
Were we to answer that politically-biased anti-Israel question “to the point”, this causes us, as designed by that question, to imply we accept all the following:
 
i) That Israel has not negotiated.
ii) That Israel is unwilling to negotiate.
iii) That no party other than Israel should take any negotiating initiative.
 
What is the question really asking?:
“Why doesn’t the US use its Security Aid to Israel as Leverage, to force Israel to give in to Palestinian demands?”
 
The question wording should therefore be challenged, rather than answered ‘to the point’:
 
 
The questioner appears to have worded their question so that their opinion biased against Israel, would be validated.
 
Can it be appropriate to seek to force Israel to negotiate, when Israel concluded an international treaty (below) with the “Palestinian” Arabs.?
 
“Arabs”:
Amended Palestinian National Charter (1968) - English, Article 5: Quote:

Quote:“The Palestinians are those Arab nationals [...]”

Extract source: 
http://ecf.org.il/media_items/677

Quote:'23 August 2019 ... Israeli girl ... Rina Shnerb [age 17 was killed; she] had been hiking with her brother Dvir and her father Eitan near a natural spring outside Dolev when an improvised explosive device blew up.'

Extract source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49447035

Quote:“After crushing the [Jewish] Bar Kokhba revolt [135 CE / 779 BH–778 BH], the Roman Emperor Hadrian applied [imposed] the name Syria Palestina to the entire region, that had formerly included Judea province.”

Extract source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_Palaestina

Quote:'[...] The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between what are now Tel Aviv–Yafo and Gaza. The name was revived by the Romans in the 2nd century CE in “Syria Palaestina,” designating the southern portion of the province of Syria [which included Roman-occupied Israel ...]
it had no official status until after World War I and the end of rule by the Ottoman Empire, when it was adopted for one of the regions mandated to Great Britain. [...]'

Extract source:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine

Of desecrated Torahs and Jewish destiny - Israel National News

The story of the Heter Mechira - Israel National News

After 100 years Turkey occupied The Pearl of the Orient  {Northern Syria}
Now Turkish Army is in Lybia   [trying to snatch the Oil and propel Turkey into SUperpower{?}
Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War - Wikipedia

One good result is that no Jewish Person going to under the "Jurisdiction" of Either Lybians  or the Turkish army
Because Lybia is JUDENFREI

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