JNF's Moral Land Mine: Drive to evict Arab family from historic East Jerusalem site poses troubling choice to Zionist group better known for planting trees.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: July 31, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

JNF's Moral Land Mine: Drive to evict Arab family from historic East Jerusalem site poses troubling choice to Zionist group better known for planting trees.

MICHELE CHABIN

Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem -- In a large but simple house in Silwan, a hilly Arab village just outside the walls of the Old City, the Ghuzlan family sits and waits for the police to come and evict them.

"We didn't dare go to sleep last night because we were afraid someone would come and force us out," said Riad Ghuzlan, 40, who shares the house with three of his brothers and their wives, 18 children and an elderly ...

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