Middle East News Service comments: Sometimes it is the role of a news service to report the news of the future. The name Silwan is not all that well known outside the circle of those who have an intensive interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But it is a name to remember. As the Ir Amim [city of nations] people explained it to me last year in Jerusalem this is where there is an intensive effort by settlers to move in the middle of an Arab neighbourhood. The project is tied in with a lot of archeological work exploring the “City of David” as it is known in Hebrew. Just how much hatred is there already is explored by Meron Rapoport in an article he contributed to Haokets [The Sting], a left-wing website concerned primarily with issues of social inequality and human rights. Until about a year ago Rapoport was a leading reporter for Haaretz – Sol Salbe
[Thanks to Keren Rubinstein for translating this article.]
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