Shusha
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- Dec 14, 2015
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This case, in many ways, represents the impossibility of reconciling and making sense of the complex nature of the conflict and the balance between property rights, human rights and political rights.
For those who don't know, a family in Jerusalem has been evicted from their home of more than 50 years. The family moved into the home in 1964, and have been paying rent on a lease since then. In 2009, the heirs of the home's owner, expelled in 1948, made a legal application to re-assert their property rights. A long legal battle ensued, pitting the rights of the tenants against the rights of the owners. The owners eventually won the case, but the eviction was delayed on humanitarian grounds due to the age of two of the tenants. However, after a delay of nearly two years, the eviction finally occurred.
There are a number of points to discuss here, but the two I think I want to focus on are
1. the impossibility of restoring individuals to where they were 50+ years ago, without creating new humanitarian crises.
2. the impossibility of reconciling individual rights within the greater political conflict.
For those who don't know, a family in Jerusalem has been evicted from their home of more than 50 years. The family moved into the home in 1964, and have been paying rent on a lease since then. In 2009, the heirs of the home's owner, expelled in 1948, made a legal application to re-assert their property rights. A long legal battle ensued, pitting the rights of the tenants against the rights of the owners. The owners eventually won the case, but the eviction was delayed on humanitarian grounds due to the age of two of the tenants. However, after a delay of nearly two years, the eviction finally occurred.
There are a number of points to discuss here, but the two I think I want to focus on are
1. the impossibility of restoring individuals to where they were 50+ years ago, without creating new humanitarian crises.
2. the impossibility of reconciling individual rights within the greater political conflict.