Timeline for Why has the Israel-Palestine conflict reignited in May 2021?
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| May 18, 2021 at 6:54 | comment | added | Gabe | It looks like the evictions are due to a rent dispute. Once Israel granted the Israelis ownership of the property, the Palestinian tenants stopped paying rent, which seems like a reason to evict. My understanding is that so long as the tenants paid rent, they could not be evicted. Did I get any part of that wrong? | |
| May 17, 2021 at 16:42 | comment | added | dotancohen | This would be a good answer if it included how the incidents in Jerusalem spilled over into Gaza. I believe that the focus on Gaza began when Hamas (rulers of the Gaza strip) began firing missiles from Gaza into Israel when Israel did not adhere to Hamas' demand to remove police from the Al Aqsa compound from where protesters where hurling stones at the Western Wall below. | |
| May 17, 2021 at 8:59 | comment | added | gerrit | @ItalianPhilosophers4Monica All true. | |
| May 17, 2021 at 6:19 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | @gerrit citing The Economist, hardly a firebrand lefty paper: The court is reviewing a judgment to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. Their homes sit on land that was owned by Jews before Jordan occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1948. Israeli law allows the heirs of the original owners to reclaim property in East Jerusalem. Yet Palestinians cannot claim their former homes in West Jerusalem (or anywhere else in Israel). | |
| May 16, 2021 at 14:23 | history | edited | Pete W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2021 at 14:04 | comment | added | gerrit | @JBentley I agree completely. It's hard to describe the situation neutrally and fairly. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 13:11 | comment | added | JBentley | @gerrit That would be slightly misrepreseting the situation IMO as it gives the impression that the debate is reasonably split 50/50 between two sides. In practice pretty much every country in the world, plus the International Court of Justice and even some of Israel's own courts, agree that the settlements are illegal, and the Israeli government is virtually a lone voice in arguing that they are not. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 12:49 | history | edited | Pete W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2021 at 10:01 | comment | added | gerrit | You could clarify that the Israeli authorities are evicting Palestinian tenants from disputed land. That means: from a Palestinian perspective, a foreign occupation force is forcibly removing Palestinians from their homes to make place for Israelis. From an Israeli perspective, the police is removing tenants from their home in accordance to Israeli law on Israeli territory. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 20:05 | history | edited | Pete W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2021 at 19:52 | history | edited | Pete W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2021 at 19:47 | history | answered | Pete W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |