New settlement in East Jerusalem

a_unique_person said:
Marksman

The land agency is not allowed to lease to anyone other than someone who is Jewish. State sponsored racism. There is also the process of declaring land that was previously Arab land, state land, then it can be handed over to the ILA.
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Could you give me a cite? Because that's the opposite of what is stated in the article I quoted (and linked). It appears that the ILA cannot descriminate on the basis of race or religion. But the JNF, a private organization that owns its own land privately, can and does. (Just as all private owners of land may decide to whom they lease or sell.)

I say "it appears" because my knowledge is limited to what I read in articles. If you have an article with contrary information, please provide it.
 
steverino said:
You're weird.
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Just trying to point out that apologists for these racist setups often try to compare them to things that are targeted to particular age groups....like old people's homes etc...They are completely irrelevant to the racist systems that you are aparently so keen to rationalize.
 
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How the land building/demolishing process works.

LAST Thursday, as Jerusalem prepared for this week's celebration of the 40th anniversary of the city's "reunification" by Israeli forces, two very different articles appeared in Ha'aretz newspaper.
The more prominent of the two concerned a proposal by the council's planning committee to build three "Jewish neighbourhoods" in East Jerusalem, the Arab part of the city seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of June 1967.
The other piece told how shortly before dawn last Tuesday, the council sent bulldozers and police to demolish a small house in East Jerusalem used as a rehabilitation centre for disabled Palestinian children.
"They came at four in the morning, when it was too early for us to try and get a court order to stop it," said Hani Totah, 45, the building's owner.
"When they came, some children were sleeping there. The manager said he wouldn't open the door for them so they started to break it down. The children were crying and screaming. I pushed myself to the door and said, OK, you've broken the door, so let us get the kids out. Some of them can't even walk. So we got them out and took them down the road until their parents could come for them."
The house was the second built by Mr Totah without a municipal permit on a plot of land that, he says, his family has owned for more than 300 years. The first, built in 1990, was his family home until the council demolished it two years ago. It was then rebuilt with the help of the Israeli Campaign Against House Demolitions, a mainly Jewish non-governmental organisation, and turned over to the Jerusalem Stars, a charity that teaches disabled Arab children to walk.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world...ld-and-demolish/2007/05/15/1178995153978.html

There is a lot more information on the policy and it's results. I'm predicting there will be no new Arab neighborhood going up around Jerusalam.
 
Ok. Well, if you ever find an article supporting your contention that the ILA is allowed to discriminate based on religion or enthnicity, I'd be interested in seeing it.
 
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