Monday February 23, 2009, 12:42 pm
The fox guarding the hen house. The Israeli court system is not a just system.

Monday February 23, 2009, 1:04 pm
There is no excuse for this. The Palestinians can kiss this land good-bye. Israel will be giving nothing it takes back.

Monday February 23, 2009, 2:17 pm
Noted , just not fair !!!

Monday February 23, 2009, 3:31 pm
Israeli thieves and robbers may they never benefit from that which they are stealing!!

Monday February 23, 2009, 4:05 pm
I am not sure how I feel about this. It all depends on who is reporting any story as to what side is being unfair. I do not believe anyone should be able to just take your land. Isreal is not the US and so does have the same rules or laws. I just dont know who is telling the truth or who is right.I have read so much about both countries, and it depends on who is telling the story to how the story is tilted.
If Isreal is truely stealing the land they are wrong no matter what laws they have. thier own religion states they are not to steal.

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:05 pm
“Whoever believes that they want the peace is mad. They say that they want peace, but we want to see facts to support this on the ground. We want to put an end to the bloodshed and we want to live as a free people. But giving a hand to Israel is the same as putting snakes in our pockets. Not one of them dares to say: ‘we want to stop confiscating the land, demolishing houses, building the Wall, etc.’ And the occupation goes on and on, with the robbery of hundreds of dunam.”

So, the point of this story as I see it,
is that Israel hasn't stolen enough land yet.
61 years this sh*t has been going on, and there's
no stopping these people!

"We need breathing room!"
-Adolf Hitler, 1938

Thank you, Zahra.
noted.

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:10 pm
A Tiny Revolution: Meet Israel's next Prime Minister

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 1:33 pm
Julie, this article is as usualy taken from biased and untrustworth pro-Palestinian site. Details of the case are hidden, but usual tricks played by Arabs are claiming ownership on the land which was not theirs.

There is a reason than the court accepted only one petition, and dropped eight others.

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 3:29 pm
Another typical, predictable comment
from a racist Zionist Jew.
Thanks for slamming alternativenews.org,
Sashko. I figure if you hate them, there
must be something to them. I checked them
out, and it looks like a great site.
People hate Israel for some damned-good
reasons, y'know.
I'm one of them.

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 3:48 pm
Tim, I don't hate this site, just really don't care - just another bias source. One day you may create your Web page and write whatver comes to you brain late night - and people will come and read, and the most stupid will even quote. What does it change?

I love Israel. I love The States. I love democracy and freedom. I love free enterprize.

You hate many of that - so what?

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 5:19 pm
Antonio Caso warned us of this, in the language of the beautiful other –
la existencia como economía, implies the use of people as means,
entirely for self interests and gain.
In this case are States, under flags of artificial stars,
maximum gain with minimum effort, and the States whose mantra is this
are Primitive, so Caso himself explained it.

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 5:25 pm
Al-Kurd Family Tent Destroyed for Fifth Time by Jerusalem Municipality
The struggle continues for the al-Kurd family as their tent was destroyed for the fifth time yesterday morning (22 February 2008) by Israeli forces. The family’s tent was hauled away in a truck and the electric company came to cut the electricity that the family had been using. The al-Kurd family was left with their few belongings strewn about the area near where the tent had previously been erected.

Once the Israeli authorities left the scene, the family along with activists began the cleanup process. Many of the belongings were covered with tarps to protect them from the light rain that had been falling throughout the morning. Within the hour, a new, smaller, tent was brought out and the family, along with activists and supporters, began setting up the new tent.

The family has been living in a tent on a friend’s privately owned property since 14 November 2008, following their eviction from their own home on 9 November 2008. This is not the first time the al-Kurd family has been forced by the state of Israel to leave their home. The first time was in 1948, when she and her family were forced out of their home in Talbyieh (Jerusalem).

Since July 2008, the international community has expressed objections to the eviction, including, in July, the US State Department, which brought forward an official complaint to the Israeli government over the eviction of the al-Kurd family, openly questioning the legality of terms on which the Israeli Jewish settler group claimed to have purchased the land.

The family patriarch, Abu Kamel al-Kurd, died on 23 November, two weeks after he and his family were evicted from their home in Sheikh Jarrah.

According to the Jerusalem Municipality, there are plans to use the privately owned land on which the al-Kurd family protest tent stands as a parking lot.

History of Sheik Jarrah Neighborhood

The Sheik Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem was built by the UN and the Jordanian government in 1956, to house Palestinians refugees from the 1948 war. A part of the agreement between the UN and the Jordanian government was that three years after building the housing units (i.e. 15 November 1959) the estate will become owned by the family living in it.

The al-Kurd family moved to the area in 1956, after they had fled from Jaffa and West Jerusalem.
Settlers in the Home

When the al-Kurd family decided in 1999 to build an extension to their house, in order to make it more comfortable for the elder of the family, the Israeli courts declared this construction illegal and fined the family.

Afterwards, settlers occupied this new extension, which measured approximately 80 square meters. Even though the settlers’ claim of the land had been revoked by the Israeli courts in 2006, the Jerusalem Municipality confiscated the key to the extension from the al-Kurd family and gave it to the Israeli settlers. Since that time, armed guards have protected the settlers living in the confiscated section of the al-Kurd home, the settlers’ front door only steps away from that of the al-Kurd family.

In July 2007, the Israeli High Court ruled that the settlers should be evicted from the al-Kurd home, but the settlers refused to leave and the Israeli police failed to enforce this court order.
Opposing the previous decision, on 14 July 2008, the Supreme Court issued a judgment in favor of the settlers, ordering the expulsion of the al-Kurd family. When the al-Kurd family received the eviction order in July 2008, it was for their refusal to pay rent to the settlers for use of the land.

Wednesday February 25, 2009, 5:23 am
Past Member (0)
You are only a lonely and fearful shadow trying to defend his patron israel...a poor man

with fear and no friends

Wednesday February 25, 2009, 9:03 am
This is outrageous and has been going on for far too long. My former brother in law and his family have lost everything and had to flee. Israel's actions cause people to turn against them.
Not Jews, Zionists!
Thanks, Zahra

Thursday February 26, 2009, 12:57 pm
The Israeli government has been manipulating land ownership. They fake papers and evict home owners and demolish their homes. They have been stealing lands - left and right. We own a property in East Jerusalem and in late 1980's e found out that the settlers are about to take over our house. We hired a Jewish lawyer - a peace activist - and we fought for the land and after 10 years we won. Unfortunately, the settlers/Israeli Govt. are very patient and are not giving up. By hook or by crook they wanted our land - and they came up with an idea to build a parking lot (bus depot) for tourist in our land. The case is still pending. How about that? here is a link - check it out - an example of a zionist cursing camera crew and telling them that the land is his because God gave it to him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ek5G6337yU

Thursday February 26, 2009, 1:32 pm
Thanks Jamie, look at this:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/174308940/1032912