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De Joden keren aan Oostelijk Jeruzalem terug
1 April 2004 -- Voeg deze post aan del.icio.us toeZo veel is gemaakt van „Palestijns land“ - nochtans, onder de ruïnes die de Palestijnen in hun land verlaten is bezit dat door Joden wordt bezeten. Dat is juist! Juridisch gekocht van Arabieren voor Joden. Voor ons in het Westen, het kopen is het land de manier om het te verwerven. Dit is het verhaal van sommige Joden die het land op „Arabisch gebied“ van Oost-Jeruzalem terugwonnen dat door Joden wordt bezeten. Het geeft erachter geschiedenis waarom de Joden moesten weggaan en wij moeten onze geschiedenis OPNIEUW NOOIT vergeten.
Door heimelijke middelen, kocht het Comité voor de Vernieuwing van de Joodse Gemeenschap in Kfar Hashiloach ��� Kfar HaTeimanim een zes-en-a-half vloergebouw dat onder de huizen van Silwan (Shiloach) wordt gevestigd, een hoofdzakelijk Arabische buurt in oostelijk Jeruzalem. In de onlangs voltooide structuur, en in een aangrenzend gebouw, namen 10 Joodse families woonplaats tijdens de nacht op.
The new neighbors were greeted by rocks and bottles, with four policemen lightly injured when they responded to the violence. Police also found firebombs ready for use on the roof of a nearby building. Police arrested six of the rock-throwers.
Arutz-7’s correspondent reports that during the entire period preceding their entry into their new homes, it was forbidden to any Committee members to be seen in the vicinity of the building. Such exposure could have revealed the identity of those behind the project and endangered its completion. The location of the structure, in one of the most hostile Arab neighborhoods in the capital, also held life-threatening danger for any Jew who would have approached the site unprotected.
Despite the violent Arab reaction to Jews moving into the neighborhood, a brief perusal of the history of the area reveals that the project constitutes redemption of Jewish land and property in Kfar Hateimanim (Village of the Yemenites), which was legally acquired 120 years ago.
The dawn of Kfar Hateimanim is in the period of the famous “A’aleh biTamar” immigration of 1882 (5642) from Yemen. When the immigrants arrived in Jerusalem, they found harsh poverty and overcrowding. They eventually found themselves living in caves outside the Old City of Jerusalem, on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. The established Jewish community ultimately pulled together to financially assist the new immigrants in building a neighborhood adjacent to the Shiloach spring.
Rabbi Boaz, son of Rabbi Yehonatan Mizrachi (and known as “Boaz the Babylonian”) - who was one of the most enthusiastic of the lovers of Zion - donated half of his 8,000 sq. meters (about 2 acres) of property on a ridge of the Mount of Olives for the construction of homes for the Jews from Yemen in 1885. Six years later, the neighborhood numbered 65 houses. In 1891, the immigrants from Yemen purchased ten dunams (about 2.5 acres) adjacent to the existing neighborhood from an Arab woman and built at the site, with their own hands, forty-five more houses for their families.
However, the idyllic quiet of the village came to an end in 1929 (5689). The massacre of Jews that the Arabs carried out in Hevron shook the security situation throughout the country. After a short time, the Jews were forced to abandon the village.
The events of 1929 passed and some of the Jews returned to the village, but the atmosphere was already heavy with Arab hatred and hostility. By the summer of 1930, there remained only 20 families. Over time, the local Arabs succeeded in cutting off Kfar HaTeimanim in Shiloach from the rest of the Jerusalem Jewish community.
On August 11, 1938, the British police abandoned the village, leaving the Jewish neighborhood unprotected. Three days later, the Jewish residents received an order from the British authorities to leave the village at once, “for reasons of security.” The British regime’s promises that “the Jewish refugees” would be able to return in the near future came to naught. Arab neighbors pillaged the place, destroying homes and desecrating the synagogue, the Torah scrolls and other holy books.
Kfar HaTeimanim, like other large swaths of Jerusalem, fell into the hands of the Jordanian kingdom in the War of Independence (1948). After the liberation of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War, the descendants of the village’s original inhabitants found silent alleyways and destroyed houses. Among and on top of the ruins of the Jewish property, new Arab construction was evident.
Today, however, Jewish life has returned once again to Kfar HaTeimanim.
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