Palestinian Apartheid or the death fatwa time again

I doubt very much this story will make as much as a blip on the radar of the wire services because the world is only is concerned about what Jews do to Arabs. Jerusalem Post:

The Palestinian Authority has issued yet another warning to Palestinians against selling their homes or properties to Jews, saying those who violate the order would be accused of "high treason" - a charge that carries the death penalty.

The latest warning was issued on Wednesday by the Chief [Islamic] Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, who reminded the Palestinians of an existing fatwa [religious decree] than bans them from selling property to Jews. Sheikh Tamimi's warning came in response to reports that Jewish businessmen from the US had purchased 20 dunams of land from Palestinians on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Warning the Palestinians against engaging in "suspicious real estate deeds," the religious leader said that according to Islamic teachings it was a "grave sin" to sell houses and lands to Jews. He said that the ban also applies to real estate agents or middlemen who are involved in such transactions.

He warned that anyone who ignores the warning would be punished in accordance with Islamic teachings and would also be ostracized by his community and family. Sheikh Tamimi also issued a ban on renting out property to Jewish individuals and organizations under the pretext that they would spread moral, political and security corruption there.

Of course, there was the standard bit to deny the reality of Jerusalem.

The city of Jerusalem is the religious, political and spiritual capital of the Palestinians," he said. "The Jews have no rights in Jerusalem. This is an occupied city like the rest of the territories that were occupied in 1967."

Scores of Palestinians have been murdered over the past three decades for allegedly selling their property to Jews or for acting as intermediaries in real estate deeds involving Jews. Several fatwas issued by PA Islamic clerics have ruled that any Palestinian who sells his property to Jews would face the death sentence.

And remember the Palestinian talking points – Netanyahu and Lieberman are the obstacles for peace. What the Palestinians refuse to acknowledge is that Jerusalem is an ancient Jewish city. Imagine the world outcry if sraeli-Jews started to murder anyone who sold or rented a building to an Arab in Israel -my ears burn with just the thought of it. Furthermore, what is commonly referred to as “Arab’ East Jerusalem possessed a thriving ancient Jewish Quarter until the Jordanians ethnically cleansed the area in 1948 with tactics no Israeli government has ever dreamed of implementing in the Gaza Strip.