The town of Silwan in East Jerusalem is one of the oldest Palestinians centers in the city. It is also one of the most important due to the fact that Silwan is the Arab district closest to the Dome of the Rock, which the third holiest city in Islam.

Even though Jewish residents make up by far the majority with over 60% of the population in Occupied Jerusalem, that is not enough for a state like Israel that is based on ethnic supremacy and privilege. The Israeli government has for years been working to “Judaize” Jerusalem. The Apartheid Wall has been built around the city so as to disconnect it from the West and Arab homes have been routinely demolished to make way for interloping illegal Jewish settlers ; the whole and evident purpose of this is to make it impossible for the Palestinians to establish their capital in East Jerusalem. So Israel thinks.

The latest news is that Israel plans on bulldozing 88 homes in Silwan and evicting 1,500 Palestinians from those homes to make away for a park.

The AP quoted Adnan Husseini, who is the advisor for the collaborator Mahmoud Abbass on Jerusalem Affairs, “They have made a decision to clear out 88 houses, and with about three families living in each of these houses, we’re looking at the eviction of about 1,500 people. But people in Silwan are clinging to their land and will not leave, despite the eviction orders.”

The Israeli authorities claim that this is all legal and not political, citing the fact that the homes were built without a permit. This is non-sense. The same Israeli authorities deny the Palestinians a permit so as to prevent them from building. The Palestinians build anyway, and rightly so since it is their land and they do not need the permission of an occupying state; Israel turns the check initially. But now it has decided that the homes should come down.

Is this how a state that wants peace behave?