By James Kitfield 4/4/09
JERUSALEM-When Jewish settlers evicted an elderly Palestinian couple from the house in East Jerusalem where they had lived for more than 50 years, the evictors came in the middle of the night and were backed by the full force of the Israeli government and security forces. n As reported in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz and verified by witnesses who talked to National Journal, about 20 vehicles from the Israel Defense Forces cordoned off the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood in the Arab section of the city at 4:45 a.m. on a Sunday last September.
