Divided Jerusalem : An Arab haven dissected | The Economist
De mieux en mieux : les colons auront donc une auront donc une autoroute à trois voies qui coupera en deux Beit Safafa
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An Arab haven dissected : An Arab village is asked to bow to the wishes of Jewish settlers
Feb 16th 2013 | EAST JERUSALEM
BEIT SAFAFA, Arabic for “summertime home”, was the only one of some 40 Arab villages in the district of West Jerusalem to survive the war of 1948 that created Israel; the others were more or less emptied of their inhabitants, who mostly fled the killing and found their return barred by the victorious Israelis. As a result, the people of Beit Safafa have generally been loyal to the state of Israel. Many of its townsfolk welcomed the 1967 war, when Israel captured what was left of Palestine, because it reunited the town which for 20 years had been divided by the armistice line running down the middle of it. When other Palestinians rose up in protest against Israel’s occupation of the entire city, Beit Safafa remained a picture of harmony.