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Article: U.N. Finds 60,000 Palestinians Risk Eviction in East Jerusalem
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- The Washington Post
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- May 2, 2009
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Since he was a boy in the 1940s, Mazen Abu Diab has seen houses
pop up steadily in the Bustan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, slowly
filling a strip of land just outside the walled Old City with what
are now about 88 homes.
Some were built with the proper permits. Others were not,
particularly after Israel annexed the Arab neighborhood in the wake
of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. But while Abu Diab, 63, acknowledges
that some of the houses are unauthorized, he argues that the Israeli
response -- the threatened demolition of dozens of buildings --
is an unfair slap at his community.
"I don't know what the Israeli government teaches a child by
demolishing their home," he said.
On Friday, a ...