Actually Akiva Eldar should learn a little history before he comments on the legitimacy of Har Homa. The following is taken from Wilkepaedia
In the 1940s a Jewish group purchased 130 dunams (32 acres) of land on the hill between Jerusalem and Bethlehem known in Arabic as Jabal Abu Ghneim, and the Jewish National Fund the planted a forest on the site. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war the hill was a base for the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood, a position taken over by Jordan`s Arab Legion. The Hebrew name "Har Homa"...stems from the structure built on the remains of a Byzantine church there. .... After Israel captured the hill from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, a group was set up to purchase land on the hill from Arabs. |
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