First of all, I apologize for not believing you. I'll try very hard not to make that mistake again. However, I wasn't completely wrong in what I said. It IS a criminal mindset. This individual is not a native Israeli, is an American Trumper, was convicted of financial fraud, and was likely in prison for several years before joining the episodes, plural, in the occupied territories.
Over the past few weeks, a video has gone viral of a man named Yaakov Fauci, in a New York accent, asserting to a Palestinian woman whose house that he has forcibly taken, “If I don’t steal it, someone else is going to steal it.”
mronline.org
Israeli settler occupying Palestinian home in East Jerusalem is Trump-supporting, anti-vaxxer from Long Island with controversial views
www.middleeasteye.net
And, it's important to note that the Israeli government DID cease evictions in that neighborhood. It took a while, approx. 1 year, but it did happen.
The ruling is a culmination of a decades-long struggle for Palestinian residents to stay in their homes.
www.aljazeera.com
Israel's top court halted on Tuesday the planned evictions of four Palestinian families from a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood pending clarification of claims on their homes.
www.reuters.com
The situation in East Jerusalem is complicted. That house might not belong to those Palestinians. This is hard to fathom from an American perspective, I assume you're American, because most people here mortgage home sales, and the bank or lender requires that an exhaustive search is done to see if there is any potential claimant on that land/property before the sale is finalized. The buyer pays for this service as part of the "closing costs". It's not expensive, but, if there is another claim on the property, legally it becomes very complicated to complete the purchase. And that's why all lenders require that this search is completed prior to finalizing the sale and transferring funds to the owner.
The net result is, that after a period of many years, property disputes where there are multiple claims on the property become very rare. Most property is purchased through a lender. The lender requires that a search is done. Eventually, after enough time has gone by, all property has been bought/sold. All property disputes get pro-actively identified and resolved. And, poof, property ownership disputes are very rare. But that is not the case in East Jerusalem; it's the opposite. The entire area is under dispute.
Below is an article from AlJazeera describing what's happening with those properties in East Jerusalem. They're being sold. And some of those owners, naturally, are not happy to find out that they are being sold to Israelis. But, is that the Israeli buyer's fault? They paid for it. The owner sold it, worked with Palestinians they trusted, the PA appoved it! So now what?
Al Jazeera investigates claims behind the selling of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem to Israeli settlers.
www.aljazeera.com
I'm not excusing what Yaacov the looney-tunes criminal said, "If I don't steal it, someone else will." But, the implication that Israeli settlers are thieves and criminals is not true. The land is being sold, and if there is a dispute about who owns it, that's a very complicated legal issue. Don't Palestinians have a right to sell their property? Don't Israelis have a right to buy it? If the Palestinian refuses to move out, should they be evicted? Yes! If there is a dispute is it complicated? Yes!
And, most important, if the Palestinian Authority is approving the sale, and the Palestinian owner is using a Palestinian real estate broker to sell their property, and an Israeli pays for the property, and the Israeli goes to take possession, and the Palestinian won't leave... does this warrant rockets being fired from Palestine into Israel? That's the most important question to ask. What sort of government approves a sale, then sends rockets when the new owner tries to take possession? A deeply corrupt violent dangerous government. And now a person has a glimpse of what is happening in Israel.
