On the legal fatigue of Sheikh Jarrah (and Palestinian cigarettes)

Tonight, one of the settlers came to our tent and was so desperate for a cigarette that he would even accept a Palestinian one. That guy normally claims that there is no place called Palestine, so we noted a slightly positive development.

The struggle of residents, activists and human rights organizations to stop the ethnic cleansing in Palestine is massive and indispensable. The efforts have a strong focus on certain areas in East Jerusalem, including Sheikh Jarrah. The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement arranges frequented demonstrations every week, an information center was recently inaugurated, and since two years the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) has a tent outside the Al-Kurd family's house from where those nightly reports are written. The reason for this attention is that the Israeli political strategy for East Jerusalem serve the Zionist agenda to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. According to Peace Now, the geographic and demographic map of Jerusalem will become so Balkanized within 2-3 years