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| | "The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular."<ref> | | "The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular."<ref> |
| | Avi Bell,[https://www.jns.org/the-sheikh-jarrah-property-dispute-and-the-false-claim-of-israeli-land-discrimination/ The Sheikh Jarrah property dispute and the false claim of Israeli land discrimination], JNS, May 23, 2021.</ref> | | Avi Bell,[https://www.jns.org/the-sheikh-jarrah-property-dispute-and-the-false-claim-of-israeli-land-discrimination/ The Sheikh Jarrah property dispute and the false claim of Israeli land discrimination], JNS, May 23, 2021.</ref> |
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| | + | Fact, it was the Arabs who uprooted the Jews in the old city oF Jerusalem in 1948. The were was a cruel ethnic cleansing by the armed Arabs of the pious Jews in Jerusalem. The Jews of the old city, the dwelling of their families in Jerusalem going back for generations, were given one hour to pack.<ref>Richard Pollock, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/a-will-to-survive-recalls-arab-ethnic-cleansing-of-jerusalems-jews A Will to Survive’ recalls Arab ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Jews]", JNS, August 12, 2021. |
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| | + | A “Life” magazine photojournalist rekindles the 1948 Arab destruction of the city’s Jewish Quarter, along with the eviction of its residents. |
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| | + | I recently stumbled upon a photography book shot by the acclaimed Life magazine wartime photographer John Phillips. The large, innocuous-looking book was simply titled, A Will to Survive. After flipping through the pages, I realized I entered a time capsule that memorializes the Arab destruction of Jerusalem’s ancient Jewish Quarter in 1948. |
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| | + | Not only is it a dramatic firsthand account of the fall of the Jewish Quarter in 1948, but it documents the Arab Legion’s scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city’s residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | Arab-Palestinian long-time human rights activist:<ref>"This has nothing to do with Sheikh Jarrah." ToI, May 12, 2021. | | Arab-Palestinian long-time human rights activist:<ref>"This has nothing to do with Sheikh Jarrah." ToI, May 12, 2021. |