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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Maybe you should learn what is and isn’t legal under international law and what displacement means. Until you do, there isn’t really anything discuss. And I’m actually shocked you don’t, since you pretend to be knowledgeable about these issues.
If the people who the homes were built for and who lived in the homes didn’t own them, then who did between 1967 and when they were kicked out half a century later? Use your brain here.
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Once again confusing private ownership of the land vs state that governs it. The story goes like this:
UN built homes for refugees in East Jerusalem, when it was a part of Jordan.
UN never registered ownership of those homes in the name of refugees.
Now Israelis come over and say that the land on which homes were built belongs to some citizen of Israel.
The families try to counter that by some papers produced from archive of Ankara.
Ankara is a Turkey city, which means that the transaction in the paper was made during Ottoman empire times that were before UN even existed. This means that UN never bought out the land in question from the Jew who owned it. UN just built houses on the land owned by a Jew. Otherwise, the lawyers could produce or at least claim a paper that indicates a transaction from Jewish owner into UN. Or from at least from anyone who pretends to be the owner into UN. Instead, all they have is something from Ottoman empire. I'm talking private ownership here, not statehood governance. UN effectively built houses on someone's land without buying the land first.