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IMEMC, Thursday March 12, 2009 Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that a group of extremist Jewish settlers attacked dozens of Palestinian homes and stores in East Jerusalem. The settlers were marching in the city and chanting slogans against Arabs and Palestinians, calling for their expulsion from the Holy City. The Israeli police did not attempt to intervene, and allowed the settlers to continue their march, which encouraged them to attack Palestinian property, local sources reported. The settlers chanted “death to Arabs” and other racists slogans while marching in Arab markets and the alleys of the Old City. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that different settler groups marched in different parts of the Old City under heavy protection and presence of the Israeli military and police. The police closed main roads in the Old City barring Palestinians from using them in order to allow the settlers to march. WAFA stated that dozens of extremist Jews arrived in the Old City by special buses, beginning in the early morning hours of Wednesday, and held prayers at the Western Wall before marching in the alleys of Jerusalem. They were accompanied by settlers living in East Jerusalem, especially from Sheikh Jarrah area and other outposts in East Jerusalem. |
Saturday March 07, 2009 04:32
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Peace and Justice Post 
The continuing Nakba
August 4, 2009Timothy Crawley, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 4, 2009
Walk down what was formerly Al-Borj Street in Haifa, Israel, and you might catch sight of an old Jerusalem-stone building with arched doorways and windows cemented-over and a large Re/Max (an international real estate franchise) banner draped across the front. The house belongs to the Kanafani family, most of whom are living in exile in Lebanon but some of whom are now living as far away from home as San Francisco.
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Defined as “absentee property” under Israeli law, the house is one of thousands of properties owned by Palestinian refugees who were forced from their lands by Jewish militias or fled during the war of 1948, in what would be remembered as the Palestinian “Nakba” – the Catastrophe. The Israeli Absentee Property Law of 1950 established the Custodian of Absentee Property to safeguard these homes until a resolution would be reached regarding the right of Palestinian refugees to return.
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