Over A House

There are many outrages in this world, and many of them get buried beneath various facades that justify them. The Israeli expansion in the West Bank is a prime example of this phenomenon. After all – how dare we speak out against the Israelis? As far as many are concerned, to do so insinuates anti-Semitism, terrorist sympathies, and so forth. But what people forget is that at the heart of the matter there are ordinary human beings involved, many of whom just want to live their lives in peace and security, which is why things of this nature make my blood boil…

“Fawzia al-Kurd, 52, raises her black cloak to show the bottoms of the pyjamas she is still wearing several days after she and her wheelchair-bound husband were forced from the home he had lived in for five decades.

She had no time to change or gather her possessions when the Israeli police arrived in the early hours of Sunday morning.

In borrowed shoes, she shows us around the tent that she now calls home near the single-storey, two room house in East Jerusalem.
Jewish Israelis who had already moved into the extension the Kurd family had built for their son, have now taken over the rest of the flat.

Mohammad al-Kurd, 55, who is partially paralysed and suffers from heart and kidney problems, diabetes and high blood pressure, is now staying with relatives.

He had lived in the house for 52 years when the Israeli Supreme Court served an eviction order on him in July.

“I will never forgive the Israelis for what they have done to me and my sick husband, kicking us out of our own house in the early hours of the morning. I may forgive other things they have done, but not this,” said Mrs Kurd.

The Jewish-occupied houses are adorned with Israeli flags
The eviction is the culmination of a decades-long legal dispute between the Kurd family and organisations seeking to boost Jewish residency in the Israeli-occupied east of the city.”

It seems to me that such things once happened to Jewish people. Their homes were also taken, they were also forced to move. The fact that they consider such behaviour acceptable given their own past simply astounds me.