About the Shepherd Hotel
Dan Pipes fills in some background about the Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah section, which is being turned into 20 Jewish apartment units by American investor Irwin Moskowitz. Some background: Zionists founded the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood in 1891 by purchasing the land from Arabs, then, due to Arab riots and Jordanian conquest, abandoned the area. Amin al-Husseini, Jerusalem's pro-Nazi mufti, put up a building in the 1930s that later served as the Shepherd Hotel (not to be confused with the renowned Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo). After 1967, the Israelis designated the land "absentee property." Irving Moskowitz, an American businessman, bought the land in 1985 and rented the building to the border police until 2002. His company, C and M Properties, won final permission two weeks ago to renovate the hotel and build apartments on the land.Sounds like Israel is really changing the demographics, doesn't it? (Not that it would make a whit of difference if we were - this is Jerusalem). By the way, this is almost directly across the street from Mrs. Carl's parents' home.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:21 PM
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Jews returning to places they lived before is changing the status quo? Only those ignorant of Jewish history could make such an assumption - and the dispute over the Shepherd's Hotel shows up Obama as a moron. I guess they don't do fact-checking either at State or in the White House.
What could go wrong indeed
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