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Originally Posted by Pointman
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.
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AFC said it best already, but I would be truly embarrassed and disgusted with my neighbours if I were you. Any good, reasonable person can see the issues here and wouldn’t bend over backwards to dismiss them.
Read the article I provided. The only reason not too would be that you’re scared of a legitimate source challenging your far right, ultranationalist world view.