The four Arab families living in Jewish-owned homes in Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik are part of a political game. The “property dispute” is really a war between narratives about Jerusalem.
העליון נגד ג קי בן זקן: זו תביעת הפחדה, עם סכומים כאלה לא ישנים globes.co.il - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globes.co.il Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Arab squatters of Sheikh Jarrah attend the Supreme Court hearing on their eviction, August 2, 2021.
As Israeli leftist protesters and Arab squatters from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem mingled outside the Supreme Court building with foreign diplomats and television news crews, the panel of judges inside was going out of its way to avoid a global tsunami that would follow inevitably should they actually stick to the law.
Needless to say, in their zeal to prove once again that the late Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban was right when he coined the adage, “The Arabs never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” the Arabs of Sheikh Jarrah went about shooting themselves in the leg with astonishing persistence and accuracy.
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