I was not blaming you for not knowing. It seems to me that MOST people in the USAI am only familiar with the name as being land in Palestine or something, Forgive me for not studying specific middle eastern geography...
By the idea of "land taken over in battle" I mean this. In ancient times, when the Romans conquered everything, were separate countries seen as separate and independent? No, it was all considered a part of Rome. The same way for Greece. If an army takes over a land, and claims it as their own, and has people moving in there and living, it is now the conquerors land. The original inhabitants have two choices; fight back and take back the land, or accept the loss. They cannot call it their own and have no control over it.
do not know that the houses in question in Sheikh Jarrah are on land purchased by
jews in the 1800s from Ottoman land owners. It was in 1948 that the Jewish house
owners (on land owned by the "JNF" or some other entity) were forcibly thrown out
by JORDAN in a starvation siege (of some local fame). In 1967 Israel won the next battle.
but the land and houses were already handed over, lock stock and barrel, to Jordanians.
Thus the question of ownership. For some reason the reports on the situation seem to
imply that the place was arab owned for MILLENNIA ------sorta like the forever ownership
of the MUGHAL EMPIRE ----by muslims------and Spain (Brooklyn is next)