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Jan 15,, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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Actually, it neither suits nor pleases neither side.

The rupture is based in part on a Palestinian boycott of US diplomats in Jérusalem since Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the move of the Embassy and the closing of the Consulate.
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That boycott has softened a bit under Biden, but remains.

The US seeks to express that its relations with the Palestinians are not through its Ambassador to Israel, or its Embassy, but needs be a direct relationship. Hence the demand to re-open the Consulate in Jérusalem.
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Both the US and the Palestinians recognize that there will be no resumption of a pivotal US role without the US putting Jerusalem convincingly “back on the table”.

That cannot be achieved without a US Consulate in Jérusalem.
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Consequently, the current rupture betw. the US and Palestinians in and re Jerusalem is a direct result of Israel’s refusal to allow a Consulate, & US unwillingness to force the issue.

This situation is disturbing to both the US and Palestinians and the Israel Gov’t loves it.

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Jan 18,
An important thread.

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My translation of Nir Hasson.

The story of the Salahia family in Sheikh Jarrah is not as simple as the customary evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah.
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These are generally about the evictions of refugee on properties owned by Jews prior to 1948, and in favor of settlers. That's not the story here. I will try to explain.
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The family home is located in area known as the "Mufti's Vineyard" which in the past belonged to the Husseini family.

Before 1967, the land was purchased by the Western Hotel Company, a Palestinian company that runs the nearby Ambassador Hotel.
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Jun 8, 2021
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Those who roll their eyes toward the heavens over the ultra-right's planned false innocence. You may call it freedom of assembly, here in Jerusalem we call it pyromania.

Were the Peace Now movement or the Gay Pride parade were to go through Mea Shearim, therecwould be blood.
Were Palestinian youth to march those streets there would be blood.

Casting the Temple Mount Mvt as Rosa Parks and Netanyahu as LBJ is pathetic. Ms. Parks did not aspire to through the white out and burn the bus.
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Can Arabs visit the Western Wall Plaza?
If theyr'e Jordanian - yes.
If they're Emirati - yes.
If they're Egyptian

NOT if you're a Palestinian - even one who is living a few meters away.

This is NOT about security. Everybody undergoes a serious security check.
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Jun 3, 2021
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Despair and a sense of futility are part of the zeitgeist.

But the claim that nothing will change with Netanyahu's departure is more than that. It is half true, perhaps more. Importantly true. But not entirely true.
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The deep truth? That Netanyahu's ideology has been spliced into the organizational DNA of official Israel. That ideological embrace of occupation brought Netanyahu to power, and he amplified it significant.
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Occupation needs no marching orders from an Israeli Prime Minister to sustain itself, and to metastasize. In that sense, his departure in and of itself will, as folks are saying, change nothing.

But that is only part of the story, and part of the truth.
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May 28, 2021
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There are a number of highly controversial issues that simultaneously converged on 2 the ultimate radioactive issues of the Israel Palestinian conflict: Jerusalem and displacement.

These issues intersect, interact and resonate.

It's worth taking a hard look how.
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This week the Irish parliament incurred the wrath of official Israel by declaring Israeli rule over the West Bank tantamount to de facto annexation.

Israel often deflects accusations of apartheid by asserting that the status of "Judea/Samaria" is temporary, to be determined.
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This dispute over "de facto" annexation and "temporary" is entirely irrelevant to Israel's position on Jerusalem.

It is Israel that asserts that the annexation of East Jerusalem is not temporary but permanent, even eternal.

It is de jure annexation dating from 1967 &1980,
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May 26, 2021
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Anyone who has read the Trump Plan w/o Illusions knows that every fiber of every clause is based on the diminished humanity of Palestinians.

Israelis having inalienable rights, Palestinians having needs. Rights are inalienable. Needs fulfilled by magnanimity.
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Proposing that Palestinians negotiate on the basis of the Trump Plan is tantamount to requesting they turn their rights, their dignity and their very humanity into a negotiable commodity.

They said no and they we damned right to do so.
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Anything less than recognition of the parity of Palestinian equities in Jerusalem w/ those of Israel - in principle and w/ real indications of being serious -is delusional.

It there is any lesson of these last weeks: don't mess with Jerusalem.

She always has the last word.
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May 18, 2021
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The only Ottoman mosque story I can tell.

Years ago, I attended an absolutely intolerably boring conference in Istanbul on Israel-Palestine.

At one point, a Palestinian friend, a world class expert on Jerusalem and Islamic heritage said: let's get out of here.
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We ended up in the historic core of Istanbul. I am so ignorant - don't ask me to be more precise.

My friend pointed out a mosque to me, which was not, at least to my untrained eye, particularly impressive.

"Does that mosque look familiar to you" he asked.

Nope, I answered.
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"Ignore the minaret. Pretend it's not there" he said. "Now does it look familiar"?

Nope I said.

"The Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City" my Palestinian friend told me. "It's a precise copy, once you lop off the minaret".
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