What Israel calls a 'real estate dispute' is really ethnic cleansing
by Hayes Brown
For almost a week now, Palestinians have protested in the streets of east Jerusalem. At issue: a years-long effort to evict a group of families from their homes, part of a broader policy of evicting Palestinians and demolishing their homes. The Israeli foreign ministry in a statement said the matter is a "real estate dispute between private parties" that is being exploited to inspire violence. That's a particularly noxious way to obscure a policy of forcing Palestinians to leave the city, Hayes Brown writes.
"For years, the situation in Israel has been painted as a war of survival, the Israelis against the Palestinians, and by proxy their Arab neighbors," Brown writes. "That no longer reflects the realities on the ground, where the ability of one side to harm the other is in no way balanced. This 'real-estate dispute,' as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government calls it, is a microcosm of the wildly unbalanced Israeli-Palestinian situation as it exists today."
more:
http://www.msnbc.com/opinion/what-israel-calls-real-estate-dispute-really-ethnic-cleansing-n1266897?cid=eml_mda_20210511&user_email=d60e03639eee858a9d1f722503050fb5c4c275d9e0d473a7e1f6182e26eccb3c
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