re legality of the jewish purchase in article apr news columbia edu ayr cunixa cc columbia edu amir y rosenblatt writes in article apr bnr ca zbib bnr ca writes it was shafting on the part of the arab land owners for doing it without notifying their tenant farmers and for not being responsible enough to make provisions for them but rather just leaving them to their fate if a landlord sells an apartment building vacant to another landlord and fails to notify his tenants they just might find themselves out on the street all of a sudden the seller may be a scoundrel and a crook but this doesn t make the buyer a thief as israelis are so often called here on tpm it is interesting though that you acknowledge that the palestinians were shafted do many israelis or jews share your opinion do you absolve the purchaser from any ethical commitments just because it wasn t written down i don t know if others share this opinion it is mine and i m sure there are some who agree and some who don t the way i see it the fallahin were caught in circumstances beyond their control in that since they didn t own the land they didn t have a say of course now for the sake of the greater arab unity the arabs are angry that the land was sold to the jews an act that is illegal in jordan but when it happened it was just business the arabs that lived along the coast in western palestine later to be called israel were shafted by their brother arabs just as they ve been shafted for decades since then by their arab bretheren somehow though the arab call has continued to blame israel not only for the syrian landowner sell out in western palestine israel but even for the occupation of eastern palestine jordan by the hashemites this is just more of refusing to take blame for one s own actions infra structure etc imho the palestinians have grounds to contest the legality of the purchase say in world court if your job was eliminated in a corporate takeover you could probably go to court too you d probably lose though jake livni jake bony bony com ten years from now george bush will american occupied new york have replaced jimmy carter as the my opinions only employer has no opinions standard of a failed president
