Jerusalem, West Jerusalem, East Jerusalem are all terms thrown around here daily, but how many know what we are really talking about?
I think all to often these threads get lost in games of words and the idea that loving Israel must translate into supporting her actions no matter what.
This short video shows what has and is happening and speaks to many, if not all of our threads here (occupation, supremacism and prejudice in the laws themselves, state policy of ethnic cleansing). If anything is factually incorrect, I would be interested to know what and why.
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As usual with these big claims -they're racist lies. They're not settlers and they're definitely not thieves.
Why? Because this already was land legally owned by Jews who donated it to immigrants from Yemen - who were later massacred and evicted during the Arab riots.
The history of Village of the Yemenites:
Israel Dov Frumkin , owner of the
Havatzelet newspaper, founded an association called "Ezrat Nidahim" which worked for the Yemenites who lived on the Mount of Olives, aided by Baroness Hirsh and others from abroad, with land donated on the western side of the Mount of Olives. The land was donated by a man named Boaz the Babylonian and on it was founded a Jewish
settlement of
immigrants from Yemen called "the village of the Yemenites " or the village of Shiloah .
Due to the problems of registration and conduct vis-a-vis the Turkish authorities, the Waqf was established in the name of the "Mushon Benvenisti sanctuary." The Mikdash was founded by the children of Moshe Benvenisti and the land donated by Boaz HaBavli...
At the height of the village's flowering, the village was home to some 160 families, some of whom were not Yemenite.
The residents of the Jewish village and its houses were damaged during riots by the Arabs in the
1921 riots , and in
1929 (the
1929 Arab
riots ) the Arabs attacked, harmed, and robbed their property. The majority of the residents left under
the British Mandate . The village's residents, led by Rabbi
Joseph Madmoni , the son of the village's founder, returned to the village for a number of years, but following the riots during
the Great Arab Revolt and the unwillingness of the mandatory government to protect the village's Jews from the Arab rioters, . Despite promises by the British governor to allow the return of the Jews to the village with the return of quiet, the Mandate authorities refused to do so, and the village remained empty of Jews.
Following the riots and deportation of the Jews, their property was plundered by the Arabs and their homes were almost completely destroyed.
Shlomo Madmoni , a resident of the village, was even murdered on his way to the village where he went in an attempt to save
a Torah scroll . Later, a Torah scroll was desecrated.
[1] All this despite countless requests to
the British Mandate authorities, both from the Zionist leadership, and from the Yemenites, the Sephardim and the
Chief Rabbinate , requesting that they be allowed to return or to place a guard force there.
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Q. How many times do Jews have to BUY the same land not to be called "settlers" ?