West Jerusalem: Jewish streets with Arab houses

border at the Old City

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MIFTAH 26 Sept by Melkam Lidet 
If the two-state solution was to come into effect, west Jerusalem would be the Jewish Israeli side and east Jerusalem would be the Arab Palestinian center. But taking part in a walking tour of some of the most expensive neighborhoods of west Jerusalem last Friday taught me differently: west Jerusalem was home to Palestine’s most affluent Christian and Muslim Arabs before the 1948 war ... Walking on these streets and stopping by some of the houses to listening to the stories of the people that built, furnished, lived and raised families in these houses as recounted in their own journals and memoirs, I realized how the neighborhoods that now look peaceful were battle grounds in the wake of the Nakba. I tried to imagine the fear and terror that drove Palestinians out of their houses: news of the Deir Yassin massacre and the constant patrolling of the Haganah and the Lehi in their neighborhoods warning or forcing them to leave ... What I find appalling is not only the injustice in writing Palestinians off their land, property, history and identity at the wake of the Nakba in the name of Zionism, but the absence of any kind of acknowledgement of this injustice.http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfmDocId=25303&CategoryId=13
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farmland stolen for roads

PA officials: Israel to confiscate 675 dunams of Nablus
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NABLUS (Ma‘an) 12 Sept -- Israeli authorities issued orders late Tuesday to
confiscate 675 dunams of land in Nablus, having issued similar orders
earlier in the day to confiscate 800 acres of land in a western area of the city, a PA official said. Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma‘an that the Israeli decision will confiscate land from Awarta and Burin villages in the centre and east of Nablus. Confiscation orders were delivered to the villages late on Tuesday, Doughlas said, adding that the land set to be annexed consists mainly of olive tree groves.
Israeli forces handed confiscation orders to several farmers in the Nablus villages of Beit Iba, al-Naqura, Zawatta and Ijnisinya on Tuesday, which will see 800 acres of land annexed in order to build an  exclusively Israeli bypass road. The dunam is a measurement unit dating back to the Ottoman empire,  equivalent to 1,000 square metres (1/4 acre)
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