Haaretz: Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem is stolen from a Palestinian family!

The Israeli Haaretz newspaper published a report entitled “Three Families and the Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood”, in which the article reveals the true history of the house in which the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lives in Jerusalem.

According to Haaretz, a Jewish family from the United States arrived in Israel in 1949, and had no place to live.

At that time, Jerusalem was rich in stolen real estate, as Palestinians were expelled or fled from the west of the city.

As for the house, its fate was like thousands of Palestinian houses, as it fell into the possession of a Jewish family that had just immigrated from the United States in 1949, after they bought it for a low price that was certainly not paid to its owners.

The Cana’an house eventually became an inheritance for two Jewish brothers, the first of whom, named Ido, sold his looted share in 2016 to American millionaire Spencer Partridge for 4.24 million shekels ($1.2 million), while the other half of the house, which is now located at 4 Habortzim Street in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, remained in the hands of the second brother, named Benjamin, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister.

Nothing tells more truthfully about Israel’s past, present, and even future than the story of Netanyahu’s home and other looted homes inhabited by Israelis, which remain historical evidence that is difficult to erase or erase.

In his book “The Looting of Arab Property in the 1948 War,” Israeli historian Adam Raz described how various segments of Israeli society were involved in systematic thefts of Palestinian villages and cities between 1948 and 1949, as settlers went out throughout the occupied territories and looted Palestinian shops and household items, in collusion with the Israeli authorities.

They saw in these organized policies of theft a means to empty the land of Palestine of its inhabitants and to achieve one of their most popular myths, which is that Palestine would become a land without a people, for a people without a land.

In the wake of the “Nakba” and displacement, Israeli leaders at the time had to quickly legitimize this exceptional, usurping situation in order to prevent the return of Palestinians to their properties after the war ended.

They based their justifications on a combination of a series of myths and biblical sayings that make every land in which a Jew has urinated or in which he has shed blood his property, and the unjust laws and legislation that were designed specifically to plunder the properties that were forcibly abandoned by their owners, most notably the Absentee Property Law issued in 1950 and the Land Acquisition Law issued in 1953, which represented the most important arms of the Israeli authorities in seizing Palestinian lands since the time of the Nakba.

The custodian of the looted property gave the family an empty house to live in, and at the end of 1959, the family bought it for 16,500 liras, a price considered an amazing bargain for a 581-square-meter villa in the city center, while a three-room apartment in Bat Yam was selling for 32,000 liras at the time.

Who is the rightful owner?

The family’s parents died, and the house was inherited by two of their sons, one of whom sold his 50% share for NIS 4.24 million, while the other brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, kept the other half. Netanyahu recently returned to using the house, which is considered stolen Palestinian property, and is believed to be rightfully owned by the late Palestinian doctor, Tawfiq Cana’an and his family.

In a compromise proposal, the article suggested handing over the Cana’an family home on Haburtsim Street to the Salem family, who live in Sheikh Jarrah, in exchange for handing over the Salem home to the Netanyahu family, considering that this would be a useful step on both the humanitarian and legal levels.

Dr. Tawfiq Cana’an was a well-known physician and researcher, with a long history in the field of medicine and Palestinian folklore.

His family suffered from looting and destruction during the Nakba, and were unable to return to the home they had lost.

The Salem family has lived in Sheikh Jarrah for 70 years, but they are facing eviction from their home in favor of Jewish settlers, as a result of a series of racist laws and legal manipulations within Israel.