Mohammed El-Kurd
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So obviously they're gonna allow settlements to expand, but according to international law, according to even US policy, Israel occupies the Eastern part of Jerusalem. Its jurisdiction there is illegitimate. We shouldn't even be going to their courts in the first place, but we have no other option.
We're talking about Sheikh Jaraha, we're talking about Jerusalem, we're talking about generations and generations and generations of people who have lived there for the longest time, who now, even though, for example me, I don't have a citizenship. I'm a resident, a mere resident.
We're talking about Sheikh Jaraha, we're talking about Jerusalem, we're talking about generations and generations and generations of people who have lived there for the longest time, who now, even though, for example me, I don't have a citizenship. I'm a resident, a mere resident.
We're talking about Sheikh Jaraha, we're talking about Jerusalem, we're talking about generations and generations and generations of people who have lived there for the longest time, who now, even though, for example me, I don't have a citizenship. I'm a resident, a mere resident.
I have a blue ID card, even though my grandmother and my grandfather were born in Jerusalem, their grandparents were born in Jerusalem. even though we've lived there for generations, but Palestinians in Jerusalem, we are not citizens, we're just mere residents. Same thing with residents of the occupied Syrian Golan. They are not citizens, they are just residents in their own hometowns.
I have a blue ID card, even though my grandmother and my grandfather were born in Jerusalem, their grandparents were born in Jerusalem. even though we've lived there for generations, but Palestinians in Jerusalem, we are not citizens, we're just mere residents. Same thing with residents of the occupied Syrian Golan. They are not citizens, they are just residents in their own hometowns.
I have a blue ID card, even though my grandmother and my grandfather were born in Jerusalem, their grandparents were born in Jerusalem. even though we've lived there for generations, but Palestinians in Jerusalem, we are not citizens, we're just mere residents. Same thing with residents of the occupied Syrian Golan. They are not citizens, they are just residents in their own hometowns.
This is an important piece, but all of this gets convoluted and lost in translation, and I think I would argue a lot of the time it's dubious, it's malicious, the fact that these little pieces of context that frame the entire story get lost. You know, I'll talk to you about something else. Just 10 minutes across from my neighborhood, there's another neighborhood called Silwan.
This is an important piece, but all of this gets convoluted and lost in translation, and I think I would argue a lot of the time it's dubious, it's malicious, the fact that these little pieces of context that frame the entire story get lost. You know, I'll talk to you about something else. Just 10 minutes across from my neighborhood, there's another neighborhood called Silwan.
This is an important piece, but all of this gets convoluted and lost in translation, and I think I would argue a lot of the time it's dubious, it's malicious, the fact that these little pieces of context that frame the entire story get lost. You know, I'll talk to you about something else. Just 10 minutes across from my neighborhood, there's another neighborhood called Silwan.
And the people in Silwan are also threatened with expulsion, but not through evictions, but through home demolitions. And if you look at American media or Israeli state media, you would read the headlines, you know, Palestinians living in homes built illegally are going to face, you know, their homes are going to be torn apart.
And the people in Silwan are also threatened with expulsion, but not through evictions, but through home demolitions. And if you look at American media or Israeli state media, you would read the headlines, you know, Palestinians living in homes built illegally are going to face, you know, their homes are going to be torn apart.
And the people in Silwan are also threatened with expulsion, but not through evictions, but through home demolitions. And if you look at American media or Israeli state media, you would read the headlines, you know, Palestinians living in homes built illegally are going to face, you know, their homes are going to be torn apart.
what these headlines don't tell you, and even sometimes, most of the time the substance doesn't tell you, that Palestinians seldom ever get building permit applications. In fact, recently a spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed that it was 95% of building permits applications submitted by Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are rejected by the Israeli authorities.
what these headlines don't tell you, and even sometimes, most of the time the substance doesn't tell you, that Palestinians seldom ever get building permit applications. In fact, recently a spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed that it was 95% of building permits applications submitted by Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are rejected by the Israeli authorities.
what these headlines don't tell you, and even sometimes, most of the time the substance doesn't tell you, that Palestinians seldom ever get building permit applications. In fact, recently a spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed that it was 95% of building permits applications submitted by Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are rejected by the Israeli authorities.
And to make this even more absurd, the guy the councilman who is responsible for rejecting and accepting building permit applications, his name is Yonatan Youssef, and he's an activist in the settler movements, and he's a Jerusalem council member.
And to make this even more absurd, the guy the councilman who is responsible for rejecting and accepting building permit applications, his name is Yonatan Youssef, and he's an activist in the settler movements, and he's a Jerusalem council member.
And to make this even more absurd, the guy the councilman who is responsible for rejecting and accepting building permit applications, his name is Yonatan Youssef, and he's an activist in the settler movements, and he's a Jerusalem council member.
And he, last week, following the expulsion of a subloban family in the Old City of Jerusalem, he posted to his official Facebook account, Nakba Now, demanding a second Nakba, promising another Nakba. He has done so on many occasions. He has chanted with a megaphone just a few months ago, walking down the street in my neighborhood. chanting, we want Nakba now.