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November 5, 2021

In the Sheikh Jarrah Affair, Palestinians Decided Getting Nothing Is Better Than Accepting Three-Quarters of a Loaf

The legal case that served as a pretext for the last Gaza war drags on.

In May, the case of Jerusalem property owners seeking to evict four Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood—or at the very least use the courts to force them to pay rent—became an international cause célèbre. Hamas even cited it as a pretext for its war with Israel. Since then, the case has continued to wend its way through the Israeli judicial system, until the Supreme Court this week proposed a compromise. Jonathan Tobin explains what happened:

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