How do we know Benjamin Netanyahu reads Haaretz? Because if he didn’t, he would not know that Sayed Kashua lives in West Jerusalem. But Kashua is an Israeli citizen, conceived and born in the Israeli town of Tira, in the Triangle region.
So what is Netanyahu talking about when he refers to a constant flow of residents, in both directions, between the city’s eastern and western parts? Where does he live, and where does he think we live? Have we not been here for the last 42 years, and have we not closely followed the deliberate, systematic effort by official Israeli agencies to take over Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem? To take them over, and push out their regular residents – a kind of ethnic cleansing, with the goal of Judaizing all of Jerusalem and leaving the marketplace empty of Arabs, as in Naomi Shemer’s song?
What is Netanyahu talking about when he talks about “the right of every Jew to live anywhere in Jerusalem,” as if it were a free city with a free market of voluntary buyers and sellers? In a place where the rights of one people are oppressed, the rights of the other people will also be oppressed. Someday, there will be an agreement, and only then will this mutual right exist.
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And what is he talking about, this Netanyahu, when he talks about “private land,” which – what can you do? – leaves the government powerless? The truth is known to everyon…
