Afrasianet - Ilana Heimerman - Silwan in East Jerusalem is witnessing a massacre these days. The perpetrators are not "hilltop youth", but official government agencies such as the Jerusalem Municipality, armed with judicial orders and bulldozers, escorted by heavy police and border guards who patrol the village daily.
These organizations always put themselves at the service of fascist Jewish associations, the Ateret Cohanim Association and the El-Ad Association, which, like the farms and outposts, are working to carry out the ethnic cleansing process in the West Bank, the Jordan Valley and the southern Hebron Hills, in order to carry out the same mission in Jerusalem, which is to "Judaize" the neighborhoods surrounding the Old City.
The current victims are communities that have been living since the 1960s – even before the occupation of East Jerusalem – in Batn al-Hawa and in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of the village of Silwan, located on the foot of a steep mountain east of Jerusalem. Articles published by Haaretz have described the long legal tragedy of these communities, which have a population of 234 families, 2,200 men, women and children.
It is unfortunate and even fundamental that this is not the real cause of the destruction and displacement that destroys life there; the laws of the State of Israel, many of which were enacted for this very purpose, have predetermined and continue to determine the fate of the lands of all Palestinians living under Israel's rule, both its Arab citizens and subjects of its military rule.
The impact of these court-ruled laws will determine the fate of the "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in the Negev. They are also destroyed and their lands are allocated to the Jews (um al-Hiran) and al-Araqib, and so on.
The fate of Palestinian homes in some neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, which was annexed to the West Bank, is determined by a law enacted in 1970 to displace them from their homes and hand them over to Jews. The law, called the "Legal Arrangements and Administration Law," includes a provision that outlines a mechanism that allows "Jews (or their heirs) to demand that the public custodians of the land release their property in East Jerusalem, which was their property before 1948, and whose administration was transferred to the Jordanian custodian of enemy property during Jordanian rule."
This article settled the complex legal battle of the Sheikh Jarrah families, against them, of course, and according to it, orders were also issued to evict dozens of families from the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood.
What decided the fate of the demolition of all the houses in the Al-Bustan neighborhood was the lack of "building permits", which the "El-Ad" association exploited to achieve its desire to establish a visitors' park on the land called "The King's Park". This association, like the Ateret Cohanim Association, is working to "Judaize" East Jerusalem. (Yes!)From the same family of racist terms used by the Nazis, the Jerusalem Municipality provides the legal basis for this pre-determined legal process.
Any temporary deviation from it is a mirage. All the houses that Palestinian residents build from time to time are also destined for demolition because there are no building permits, which were intended only for Jewish settlers. It is demolished in front of the eyes of those who wish to watch. Few Jews in Jerusalem would like it.
In my opinion, those who saw the piles of rubble in the Al-Bustan neighborhood, saw the pictures of bulldozers being demolished under the protection of the police and military police, and the brutal expulsion of children and their families from their homes in Batn al-Hawa, and saw the settlers who entered the apartments and the armed guards accompanying them with generous funding from the Jerusalem Municipality... They consider what is happening to be a massacre in all its forms, and it also requires "protection." But this does not exist.
Source - Haaretz
