'Police delaying evacuation of settlers from controversial East Jerusalem building'

keep those rockets shooting hamas if they don't want to live with us in peace then live with us in war but the point is their going to live with us arabs are not going anywhere so make nice or its going to be another 60 years of hell

The very fact of disobeying the law by a state organisation, and the laxity orchestered by the politicans is a conspiracy against the law's authority. In a democratic land the chief of police gets suspended, jailed and indicted if his organisation disobeys to respod to the court order, in Israel this will not happen since the settlers' so-called “price tag” strategy became the law. Oh settlers and conspirators ... more dramatic repercussions are on the horizon ....Viva la muerte !!!

Court: We ORDER that this building be evacuated. Police: Err, what? Were you talking to me? Court: Yes, we were. We ORDER that this building be evacuated. Police: Bite me, bitch, we don't take orders from you.

There are 20,000 Illegal Arab Structures in J-lem -- leave it to Akiva Eldar and Haaratz to obsess on one contested Jewish residence.

This article shows once more that Israel is a state ruled by a minority of 500 000 settlers imposing their rule over a passive majority accepting their dictatorship like a flock of sheep. How can you call yourself a democracy?

It's dangerous signals when the police don't follow democratic elected officials orders. As it is now there is a conflict between secular and religious laws. This can be a sign that the democratic stat of Israel is starting to go dawn, there has to be only one authority ether a democratic secular or a religious non democratic (similar to Iran). I think now is time to deal with this issue otherwise it will be the beginning of the end.

I have never been able to understand how a court or authorized legal authority can give an order to anyone (especially a govrenment official) and not have it carried out without any consequences. They should all be charged with contempt of court and fined or put in jail. It is simply unbelievable and shows Israeli law to be a joke.

I mean you can come over for dinner if you want, but you're gonna have to leave at the end and I hope you don't throw the same temper tantrum again. No one gets immunity from the law by mere birthright, especially not in a so-called Democracy. Were you trying to establish Israel

This has gone on way too long and is unacceptable in our homeland.

This IS discrimination.

that the rule of law does not apply to settlers? this is nothing new.

What exactly are the police afraid of? The settlers? The Jerusalem municipality? The right-wing regime? Their own hide?

israeli citizens building illegal homes in what is internationally recognized as non-israeli land are allowed to stay for as long as they want. palestinians building homes in palestine inexplicably must first obtain permits from israel to do so. then they are kicked out like trash and their homes destroyed, as the jews who build without permits in the same land make themselves cozy. a perfect representation of modern israeli society, to be honest.

NO JEWISH SOUL SHOULD BE EVICTED FROM ANYWHERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL...NO MATTER WHAT SOME LEFTWINGER "COURT" ORDERS...JEWS WEE EVICTED FROM MANY PLACFES FOR MANY CENTURIES.NEVER AGAIN THIS IS THEIR LAND. NO COURT HAS THE RIGHT TO DENYE THEIR BIRTHRIGHT

We delegitimise ourselves, but complain that the whole world is on a campaign to do the same.

Instead of Kicking Jews out of the Building they Bought, an Arab is in Prison for having the audacity to sell land to a Jew, why not focus on 80,000 Illegal Arab Buildings? Ooh, six terrorists had their shacks knocked over, big whoop-de-doo. Eighty Thousand Illegal Arab Buildings are being ignored!

A major difference between the US and Israel is that we are a nation of laws and even when unpopular, are enforced. Israel on the other hand has shown itself time and time again to be a nation without laws, corrupt and prejudiced in its application. Hardly qualifies as a democracy.

with love. The 'only democracy in the middle east"

Israeli police prioritize brutality against Torah carrying, praying Jewish Women of the Wall instead of evacuating illegal settlers from East Jerusalem!

If police do not execute the orders of elected civilian officials you have a police state or a mutiny. The head of the police, whether the chief or commissioner must be replaced and so must any officer who believes that the police don't have to follow civilian or court orders. If the settlers are allowed to stay where they are Israel will have a lawless society.

Two stories in Haaretz today reveal the fundamental problem which Israel refuses to confront, yet cannot deny. That problem is that Israel does not know what it wants. Does it want a unified, Arab free Greater Israel, or an Israel at peace with it's neighbors? Israel destroy Arab homes in Jerusalem while refusing to enforce the law against Settlers. Only Israeli Jews may solve this dilemma.

Let me guess, without even reading this other article it's Arab houses that got demolished? What I find amusing here is this line:" is liable to create harsh feelings of discrimination and serious damage to the rule of law and to the [authorities'] enforcement and deterrence capabilities," Duh, do you really think so? In any case, maybe it escaped the attention of some but the question here is not dismantling Jewish settlements but dismantling something far greater which I hazard to spell out knowing this post won't get posted. It is definitely time to revisit the question of the entire Zionist enterprise. Time to liberate Jews and Arabs from this endless and mindless death spiral. Give them a state that some will hate but all will respect or continue this charade there is such a thing as :rule of law" or "a democratic state" with no borders and no constitution that no one respects.

Equal rights? I think not... This is an embarrassment and just proves that, while maybe on PAPER there is no discrimination, it is clear that there is preferential treatment of some citizens over others based purely on their ethnicity. Just today 9 Palestinian homes were razed with no warning. "Jerusalem's Jewish city council, which ordered the demolitions, insisted that none of the buildings it destroyed were actually houses inhabited by Palestinians. Yet that claim appeared questionable in at least one case. Dalel Rajabi was not at home when the bulldozers arrived -- she had taken her sick 10-month-old daughter to hospital. The demolition team roused her sister, who lives next door, instead. According to Linda Rajabi, she was given half an hour to remove vital documents and school work from her sister's house." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7888177/Israel-bulldozes-Palestinian-homes-in-East-Jerusalem.html But please - lets focus our efforts on helping those citizens who were relocated from Gaza after months of warning, and given money and affordable housing. NOW do some people see why Israel is seen somewhat akin to Apartheid South Africa? Really - if you can't see it after the juxtaposition of this story and the bulldozing (with no warning) of Palestinian homes then you truly are blinded to reality!

And how exactly is the building itself controversial?

Hegemony.