Yamina MK to Blinken: Jewish people not an 'occupier'

Newsrael News Desk 26.05.2021

Yamina MK Matan Kahana replied to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's references to the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood, contested by Palestinian Arabs.

"Mr. Blinken, Shimon HaTzaddik - which you referred to as Sheikh Jarrah - has been Jewish-owned property since 1876. All our courts have ruled in favor of our presence there. The Jewish people are not an occupying power in our homeland," he said.

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G Andrew 18:27 26.05.2021 3 years ago

You are correct . . . This is a red herring. The REAL issue is that without a separate Muslim state roughly approximating Palestine, there will be no peace -and no legal, contractual progress.

[Anonymous] 15:10 26.05.2021 3 years ago

So folks as you can see this information has to be put out there to stop the “settler” troupe that the world is fed that the Jews are stealing Jerusalem

[Anonymous] 15:09 26.05.2021 3 years ago

The author apparently obtained these numbers from the Ottoman Empire government

[Anonymous] 15:06 26.05.2021 3 years ago

Muslims and 3000 Christians of varying sects

[Anonymous] 15:06 26.05.2021 3 years ago

Reports is the chapter on Jerusalem. This author had no agenda or reason to falsify his population figures. He states that in 1850 there were 39,000 Jews living in Jerusalem at that time, 13,000 Musli

[Anonymous] 15:04 26.05.2021 3 years ago

I have an antique British travelogue, which was a popular book genre in the first half of the 1800s. The author provided steel point engravingsof the key cities of the ancient world. Among the chapter

[Anonymous] 15:01 26.05.2021 3 years ago

All other Palestinians that came after the 1850s were migrant works from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

[Anonymous] 14:59 26.05.2021 3 years ago

For those Palestinians whose family were in Palestine (the Roman name) since at least the 1850s, your Families are actually Jews who were forcibly converted to Islam

[Anonymous] 14:55 26.05.2021 3 years ago

By the way, I am part Arab myself but recognize the truth when I see it. For those Palestinians who will live in peace in Israel with their Jewish cousins, welcome to the Jewish nation Israel

[Anonymous] 14:53 26.05.2021 3 years ago

The Palestinians are Arabs not Canaanites as they falsely tell the world. They are the interlopers with 22 Arab countries where they can live with their Arab brothers who never accept them

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