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August 16, 2021

The 150-Year Back Story to the Sheikh Jarrah Dispute

The problem may not be what the Israeli government is doing, but what it isn’t.

In May, Hamas used a pending eviction case in the Jerusalem neighborhood known in Arabic as Sheikh Jarrah as its pretext for launching a war against Israel. The fighting has ended, but the legal case drags on. Contrary to what one might assume from reports in the Western media or from those tweeting #SaveSheikhJarrah, the Israeli government has no plans to expel anyone from his home. Rather, a corporation has brought a few Palestinians families to court over nonpayment of rent. But the case is a complex one, as Haviv Rettig Gur explains:

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August 16, 2021

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