Harriet Sherwood.
Here's three of my observations from her big introductory look at the situation:
a)
Ever since the six day war in 1967, when Israel forcibly took control of the Arab sector...
Just like that Israel took control. Forcibly.
That 1967 war we started, I guess. And Jordan, the illegal occupier (by the way) of "East Jerusalem", sat there doing nothing. The bit about Israel pleading with Hussein not to join the war? Missing.
We simply started a war and forcibly took control.
Nice un-historical narrative.
b)
In Sheikh Jarrah – a historic Palestinian neighbourhood where many of the spacious stone villas, draped with gorgeous bougainvillea, have been leased to foreign consulates and NGOs – a number of families have been evicted from modest homes assigned to them by the UN in 1948.
Actually, if by "Palestinian", she means Jewish and Arab, well, fine. But if not, that neighborhood was also Nahlat Shimon HaTzadik and had close to 50 Jewish families by 1947-48, after purchasing land there in the 1870s.
And those "evicted Arab families"? They were there in homes from which Jews had been evicted, no, ethnically cleansed in 1948. And they actually arrived there a bit later. And they never paid rent as they agreed to do.
And that neighborhood is where Arabs murdered and burnt over 70 Jews in the infamous Hadassah Convoy incident in April 1948.
c)
A short distance away is the Old City...The sound of the muezzin – the Muslim call to prayer – mixes with church bells, chants and song. Greek orthodox clerics brush past Catholic nuns; Jews stride through the souks on their way to pray at the Western Wall; Muslims flock to the magnificent mosques at Haram al-Sharif in the south-eastern corner, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Notice that there are no sounds of Jews on the Temple Mount. We can visit as tourists but not as Jews and we can't pray there.
And many more people other than Jews know the site as the Temple Mount.
Ms. Sherwood has a lot to learn.
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Talk about pre-conceived ideas - she has just cut and pasted from one of Brian Whittaker's hopeless pieces of trash to concoct her own. An insult to the intelligence but unfortunately all to eagerly lapped up by the Guardanista Jew haters.
When any of the MSM sends out young, uninformed and uneducated so-called "journalists", what else can we expect?
My advice - ignore her and all the others like her.
The cut-and-pastes from the Guardian Handbook are so wrong she might have been better off simply making stuff up. Well, why quibble?
As I've previously written, UNRWA, in 1958 (not 1948), participated in housing Arabs in Jewish homes seized by the Jordanians in the War of Independence. This was an audacious act, to say the least, considering that even the UN didn't recognize Jordan's occupation of east Jerusalem. I discuss it in more detail here: http://moreyaltman.blogspot.com/2009/12/jerusalem-jerusalem.html
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