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Israel building Jewish homes with one hand, destroying Arab homes with the other
By Nir Hasson
Tags: Israel News, East Jerusalem 

The World Likud movement held a cornerstone-laying ceremony yesterday for the expansion of the neighborhood of Nof Zion, despite - or possibly because of - American pressure against building in East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement is in the middle of the Arab village of Jabal Mukkaber. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem municipality razed two Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem yesterday.

The plan is to add to Nof Zion 105 new apartments to the 90 ones that are already there, most of which are already occupied. The neighborhood is considered "prestigious," but the developers ran into trouble a few years ago after they failed to sell the apartments to Jews from overseas. About a year ago the developers changed their marketing strategy to target the local national-religious market - and the apartments began selling quickly. The developers expect the same for the new part of the neighborhood.

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The World Likud's announcement of the ceremony said the neighborhood was near Jabal Mukkaber, "bounded by terraces and with olive trees and grapevines."

In fact, however, Nof Zion is in the middle of the village, near Palestinian homes. In September Haaretz reported that the family of the late actor-comedian Shaike Ophir criticized the municipality's decision to name a street in Nof Zion after him.

A group of American Jews interested in buying apartments in Nof Zion attended yesterday's ceremony. New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who is considered a staunch supporter of the settlers, headed the group.

Addressing the ceremony, MK Danny Danon (Likud) said that Jerusalem will never be a part of negotiations with the Palestinians. He called Barack Obama "naive" and said the U.S. president still does not seem to understand who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in the conflict.

Yesterday the Jerusalem municipality razed two Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, one in Isawiyah and one in Silwan. In both cases, local residents battled security forces.

In Isawiyah villagers tried to block the entrance to the village with cars, while in Silwan local residents threw rocks at police officers after the house was destroyed.
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  2.   EXODUS 22:28,ACTS 23:5 03:01  |  glenn youngberg 19/11/09
  3.   End of Two State Solution-- End of Jewish State 03:23  |  Dolphin 19/11/09
  4.   This is what ethnic cleansing by bureaucracy looks like 04:12  |  peacelover 19/11/09
  5.   So the "good guys" are the ones stealing land? 04:14  |  peacelover 19/11/09
  6.   Obama isn`t naive 07:23  |  Bandar Michaels 19/11/09
  7.   the Lord giveth and taketh away... 08:00  |  Mark 19/11/09
  8.   destroy arab homes 08:05  |  steveo 19/11/09
  9.   Demolitions 08:26  |  fredyr 19/11/09
  10.   The questions still remain 08:37  |  *BEN JABO 19/11/09
  11.   Israel is doing both with the same hand 08:40  |  sh 19/11/09
  12.   Good Guys and Bad Guys... 09:22  |  David James Vickery 19/11/09
  13.   srael building Jewish homes and, destroying Arab homes 10:18  |  Gerald Zang 19/11/09
  14.   to ben Jabo 11:13  |  outsider 19/11/09
  15.   Israel will get away with anything 11:28  |  Kathy 19/11/09
  16.   Gerald Zang #13 `legal-illegal` mishigas 12:07  |  Roo 19/11/09
  17.   housing 12:55  |  JimUSA 19/11/09
  18.   20 permits to Arabs in whole of 2007 13:10  |  Eva SK 19/11/09
  19.   #16 Roo 13:32  |  Gerald Zang 19/11/09
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  21.   Building for Jews and demolishing for Pals epritomizes situation 13:45  |  Esther 19/11/09
  22.   #10 The point BEN still won`t address. 14:12  |  Johnboy 19/11/09
  23.   #13, #16 legal/illegal? 15:01  |  legal freak 19/11/09
  24.   #10, Ben Jabo... 16:13  |  Silvienne 19/11/09
  25.   fredyr Israeli law is illegal in NON- Israeli territory 19:15  |  CJ 19/11/09
  26.   Would not be nearly so controversial 22:40  |  Dave Duncan 19/11/09
  27.   Another clear sign of Zionism`s moral bankruptcy! 01:12  |  ~Jaap 20/11/09
  28.   The questions still remain (*BEN JABO) 01:24  |  sh 20/11/09
  29.   21, Esther, Thank you.... 01:31  |  Dutch 20/11/09
  30.   No surprises! 01:34  |  K P Ryan 20/11/09
  31.   looks like Israel can;t be stopped 02:05  |  Jim 20/11/09
  32.   #7 Mark 02:53  |  Jim 20/11/09
  33.   Dust In The Wind 04:47  |  sfg 20/11/09
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  35.   on *BEN JABO #10 and the 4 sons 00:17  |  zeev 22/11/09
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