The Obama administration – like its predecessors for the past three decades – has turned a blind eye to what makes illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem possible: donations from American charities.
Emily Dische-Becker, Menassat, 5 August 2009
BEIRUT, August 5, 2009 (MENASSAT) – In a pre-dawn raid on Sunday (August 2) Israeli police clad in black riot gear evicted two Palestinian families—53 people in total—from two buildings in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The evictions followed a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court that claimed Jewish families had owned the land before 1948. Two Jewish families moved in immediately after the evictions, on the same site that Israel plans to build a 200-unit settlement.