Israeli media reports that #Netanyahu agreed to Ben Gvir's proposal to restrict the entry of Palestinians in the 1948-occupied territories into Al-Aqsa #Mosque in occupied Jerusalem during #Ramadan.
Tell me again, is it part of Israel's right to defend itself, or war on #Hamas?
“Prior to her arrest, she had helped form a new collective of #women lawyers to work on the unprecedented number of Palestinians being jailed in the #WestBank and #Jerusalem”
"Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter"
"A Jewish businessman with connections to the radical settler movement is poised to develop a quarter of the neighbourhood’s territory, with plans to build a luxury hotel.
This would "significantly change part of Jerusalem’s Old City & hasten the demographic shift towards the city’s Jewish population which has been happening for some years."
I know by now many of you have seen the Selina Robinson video but here Sarah Alami helps show just how wrong and ignorant Robinson's comments were. Please watch til the end so you can see the archival footage from the documentary Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story by @aljazeeraenglish and share.
"On his first day of his visit to Israel, Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, told Israeli authorities that his country would move its embassy to Jerusalem.
Milei had vowed during his campaign to move the embassy from its current home in Herzliya, in a sign that Argentina recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital."
Had a peculiar occurrence today. I met one of those perennial beggars from Mahane Yehuda in an unusual place, far from the shuk — probably near her house. She caught my friendly glance and, as a true pro, immediately started asking for money. I decided that today was the day to fulfil the mitzvah and reached for the wallet... (01/04)
Occupied Jerusalem, Old Town, Armenian Quarter:
A questionable real estate transaction between Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian and Australian-Israeli settler Dany Rubenstein is testing the resolve of the local community, which opposes the encroachment of settlers on their land.
21 Jan 1188: the kings of #France [Philip II] & #England [Henry II] take the Crusading Cross #otd - a reaction to the fall of #Jerusalem to Saladin the previous October (BNF)
In #Netanyahu’s defense, he *is trying to distract folks from some pretty serious #corruption charges brought by #Israel’s #Jerusalem District Court. So let’s not be so quick to judge.
The Israelites (referred to in the Bible and the Koran) were an ancient people.
Wikipedia: "Archaeology tends to place their origin in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC, after the collapse of the great Egyptian and Hittite empires which dominated the Near East. Societies settled in the highlands between the Palestinian coastal plain and the Jordan River".
The State of Judah had Jerusalem as its capital. It was "defeated and annexed by the Babylonian Empire in 587 BC, and part of its population was deported to Babylonia."