New Jersey Herald · 14 April 2017
CP-2017-001
50 years after war, settlements blur future borders
Israel and the Palestinians
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“For many Israelis, Har Homa is another neighborhood in Jerusalem, served by city bus lines and schools… But for Palestinians and much of the world, this unassuming neighborhood is far more.
It is an illegal settlement in east Jerusalem, and in some ways, the most damaging… ‘It’s a feeling of helplessness,’ said Aziz Abu Teir, the mukhtar, or community leader, of Umm Tuba, a neighboring Palestinian village, as he stared from his balcony at the sprawling rows of apartment buildings across a ravine.
‘You can do nothing.’… ‘This is our homeland,’ said Herzl Yechezkel, one of the founding fathers of Har Homa. ‘And we have to build it up.’… These settlements today are home to over 600,000 Israelis, roughly one-third of them in east Jerusalem… The Palestinians lost more than 150 acres of land to Har Homa.
Abu Teir, a 55-year-old British-educated civil engineer, said his village’s lands were passed down from generation to generation, and ownership is difficult to document, making it impossible to stop settlement… ‘The land that used to belong to my forefathers suddenly became a settlement specifically for Jewish people.
It’s not a fair thing,’ he said. ‘When did the Israeli government build a housing development for the Arabs?’”
Context added by this archive
A named Palestinian community leader and a named settler founder, each given the same room on the same page.
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"50 years after war, settlements blur future borders," New Jersey Herald, 14 April 2017, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-001
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