Ayed Kastero, a Palestinian living in Al-Qarmi area in the Old City of Jerusalem, has faced since 1987 great pressures from the Israelis to force him to leave his 600 year old house. He was fined several times by Israeli courts where they imposed heavy fines on him for reasons such as claiming that his house obscures the sun from a Jewish family living nearby. In addition, the courts conducted a ‘search’ on his monthly income and threatened to seize his restaurant and sell its contents in an auction if he does not show up at court. The court also refused to allow him to renew his travel papers and his driving licence in addition to moving the ownership of the building from his father’s to his name to make it easy for them to seize and confiscate the three storey building. Meanwhile, the Israeli municipal court prevented him from living in the upper floor of the building claiming that it was not licensed. This story is repeated all over the West Bank and especially in Jerusalem. All this while Richard Goldstone has been busy denying his unwitting part in adding to Israel’s opprobrium just by producing that Report which did no more than list the truth in a dispassionate, disinterested manner. Now he has succumbed to great pressure and apparently cares only for readmittance to the tribe.
Read Ilan Pappe: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11895.shtml and Gilad Atzmon: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-goldstones-u-turn-1.html
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