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Titolo: della impossibilita' di dividere Gerusalemme

Meravigliosa serie di post di Yaakov Lozowick [per i censori in
agguato, ripetiamo che si tratta di un militante di un partito di
sinistra, favorevole al principio due popoli - due Stati].
Trovate qui tutti i suoi documentatissimi post sulla impossibilita'
pratica di dividere Gerusalemme
http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/p/dont-divide-jerusalem.html
Il piu' recente riguarda il quartiere di Bet Safafa. Cito dal post:
A century ago Beit Safafa was a village in the hills north of
Bethlehem and south of Jerusalem. By the time the British Mandate
ended, in 1948, the southern neighborhoods of Jerusalem could be seen
on the slopes to the north of the village. When the war of 1948 was
over, there was an armistice line running straight through the
village, the northern part lying in Israel, the southern part in
Jordan. Over the next decade or so, the fields between the village and
Jerusalem filled with the neighborhoods of Katamonim, populated mostly
by Jewish refugees from Arab countries; eventually the Jewish homes of
Pat were erected right next to the Arab homes of northern Beit Safafa.
During this period the border was sealed. Family members living a
stone's throw apart could shout to each other, but never meet, never
break bread together, never share family events.
In 1967 the Israelis occupied the West Bank and annexed East
Jerusalem. Beit Safafa was united. The villagers were united, too, and
over the coming years they multiplied and moved, some crossing the old
and forgotten line into the Israeli part, some building larger homes
on the hill to the south, which, I remember, used to be mostly empty
and now no longer is.
(If we're splitting logic, by the way, it would be interesting to know
how American or Russian or French citizens who moved to the area after
1967 can be regarded as internationally forbidden. Merely because many
of them took on Israeli citizenship along the way? And if they didn't?
Say some of them retained their original citizenship and never
acquired Israeli citizenship: are they also forbidden by international
law? There are such people, you know. I recognize this sounds silly,
but so does the entire construct if you think about it long enough or
observe its details close up).
In the decades since 1967 thousands of Israeli Arabs from elsewhere -
Nazerath, Jaffa, Sachnin and so on - have moved to Jerusalem. It's a
big city, it's got the country's largest university, it's got
hospitals, government ministries, and all sorts of other things to
encourage migration. Some of them have moved to Beit Hakerem or
Rehavia, and that's all right. Others have moved to Beit Hanina, a
wealthy area on the city's north side, so they're clearly illegally
forbidden settlers. Some have moved to Beit Safafa, because it's the
one part of town that already had a community of Israeli Arabs and it
felt hospitable. Of course, if they moved to the northern part of the
neighborhood (it has long since ceased to be a separate village), no
problem. If they moved to the southern part however, they're illegal
settlers, as we've already seen. The thing is, when you walk through
the neighborhood, there's no way of recognizing which it is, unless
you happen to be old enough or savvy enough to remember where the long-
defunct line ran. Most people aren't. Most people, that is, except for
the teeming millions who know that Jerusalem must be divided
Vale la pena leggersi tutti i post, studiare le mappe e guardare le
foto. Ma naturalmente, per Gnech, c'entra la vacca rossa. Che nelle
fotografie non si vede.

 pratica di dividere Gerusalemme
infatti non va divisa, va all'ONU, come da risoluzione del '48