good historical background and the author, Avi Bell, law prof at Bar Ilan, might be someone to contact: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/understanding-the-sheikh-jarrah-shimon-hatzadik-property-dispute/2021/05/13/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_children_and_adults,_one_holding_a_Star_of_David_banner,_walking_south_on_Nablus_Road_towards_the_grave_of_Shimon_Hatzadik,_Jerusalem._1918._matpc.11748.jpg
Quote from: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/we-all-live-in-shimon-hatzaddik
Since the mid 1800s, our struggle to wrest back our property has received international legitimacy through the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Conference, to name two examples. However, the Arabs, various anti-Semitic groups, and even the anti-Zionists in our midst have consistently opposed these efforts.
If we cannot uphold our rights against squatters from the 1950s, how can we effectively defend our claims against those of the seventh century?
The very foundation of Zionism has to be that we, as Jews, have been dispossessed of our land and have every legal, historical and moral right to reclaim it, by force if necessary.
Aabout the special needs school: https://honestreporting.com/contrived-sheikh-jarrah-brouhaha-media-diplomats-slam-israel-for-implementing-court-ruling-in-order-to-build-special-needs-school/
Map showing convoy route and newspaper article from 1946: https://myrightword.blogspot.com/2012/05/shimon-hatzadik-neighborhood-early-1948.html
Map of contested area: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karm_Al_Jaouni,_Sheikh_Jarrah.jpg
another version of history: https://www.growthinktank.org/en/savesheikhjarrah-2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sheikh_Jarrah_and_the_American_Colony_in_Jerusalem_-_Survey_of_Palestine-north-east-sheet_(cropped).jpg
One of the addresses in contention: 8 Kundar Street — is actually in Nahalat Shimon, it seems — Shai Glick gave me the phone number of a city counselor who owns the building (Yoseph Yonatan)
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