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Posted on 05/02/2005 6:06:18 AM PDT by Alouette
In the summer of 2001, less than four years ago, the Israeli government issued an order to shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization offices in Orient House in East Jerusalem. The offices had been operating with Israel's consent since the beginning of the peace process and in keeping with the Oslo agreement. They were run by Faisal al-Husseini, who held the PLO's Jerusalem portfolio and died a few weeks before they were closed down.
Perhaps the most important department in the Orient House was the one in charge of preserving and developing the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian national movement always placed the Jerusalem issue at the center of its being, and after 1967 Al-Husseini used to say that "we cannot liberate Jerusalem with tanks." He meant that the Palestinian public should take nonviolent action to protect its properties in the city.
During the office's closure, Israel's defense establishment confiscated numerous documents, which the Palestinians now say Israel exploited to take over more properties in East Jerusalem. The Orient House papers consisted of Palestinian ideas, data and plans to develop what they considered as areas threatened by a Jewish takeover. One of these areas was the Jaffa Gate plaza, for which the Palestinians had prepared plans. They found foreign investors who were thinking of investing in the property and even the king of Morocco, who is the chairman of the Islamic states' Jerusalem committee, was advised about developments.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
With self-haters like Danny Rubinstein, who needs anti-Semites?
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Lets me see if I get this right this terrorist front is complaining about a Jewish city that has been such for thousands of years getting more jewish. Give me a break.
If scumbags like this guy are mad, then you know Israel is doing something right. Jerusalem is a holy city to Jews and Christians. Think of all the events in the Bible which take place there, the psalms that praise its name. But Jerusalem is not mentioned EVEN ONCE in the Koran. It has no significance to Islam except as yet more land to conquer. No Muslim should be permitted to own any parcel of land in Jersulaem.
He lie's too. They were running terror operations (and entertaining reporters) from Orient House. That aside, The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip clearly states where the PA's political offices are to be located, in article 1.7
The offices of the Council, and the offices of its Ra'ees and its Executive Authority and other committees, shall be located in areas under Palestinian territorial jurisdiction in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
not to mention the fact that the PA couldn't conduct "foreign relations" under Oslo to begin with.
9-5-a In accordance with the DOP, the Council will not have powers and responsibilities in the sphere of foreign relations, which sphere includes the establishment abroad of embassies, consulates or other types of foreign missions and posts or permitting their establishment in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, the appointment of or admission of diplomatic and consular staff, and the exercise of diplomatic functions.
Orient House was illegal under Oslo from the start. A classic case of how ignoring violations legitimizes them to palis and their cohorts.
Some of these self-haters remind me of Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottag; they value very little their inheritance. If their fantasy came true, they'd be the first to be kicked out, if not killed, by the "new state" they desire so much.
GAG, now how did I KNOW (before even looking) that this article was going to be from HahaLeft, I mean Haaretz?
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