The experience of demolishing his own family’s home and history had drained al-Tawil, but it came down to brutal economics. The Jerusalem municipality had told him it would cost him 280,000 shekels (£72,000) if its workers demolished the house. Hiring his own equipment and labour would cost al-Tawil less than a tenth of that.
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More than 57 homes in al-Bustan, part of the larger Silwan district of East Jerusalem, have been demolished in the past two years with at least eight designated for demolition in the next few weeks. On the site a biblical theme park called the Kings Garden is to be built, supposedly where King Solomon took his leisure three millennia ago.
The park is designed to be part of a spreading, largely settler-driven, archaeological project focusing exclusively on Jerusalem’s Jewish past and centred on what has been called the City of David – despite the view of many Israeli archaeologists that the visible remains date to other eras, before and after King David’s iron-age reign.
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Two doors down, Fakhri Abu Diab, the al-Bustan community leader, took the same decision when his family house was demolished in 2024. Now he and his wife, Amina, live in a portable cabin amid the rubble of what was once their family home of four generations. Only part of the kitchen of the old house has been left standing among the ruins.
“This is where we used to eat with my children, my grandchildren,” Abu Diab said. “They demolished our past. They demolished our memories. They demolished our dreams. They demolished my childhood, our childhood, and they demolished our future.”
He compared the torture of living in the wreckage of his family’s history to a physiological illness. “My heart is burning,” he said. “Maybe you see me sitting with you, talking to you, but from inside, I am burning.”
Jesus fuck
What will you do with that hatred? Nothing, probably.
Not sure I understand your goal with your comment, but you don’t know me. If you want to encourage people to organise, being presumptuous and/or snarky is a bad way of going about it.
You’re probably right. But just let me steam out some frustration, comrade.
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Got it.
Thank you, USAmericans!
If I ever came across an Israeli bleeding to death in an alleyway, I’d piss on them and leave them to die.
Fuck these sub-human monsters.
"Well, clearly the Guardian is Hamas for reporting on this!! This is blood libel and the same as the Holocaust!! :smuglord: "
