OBAMA IS FORMALLY SIDING WITH ARABS AGAINST ISRAEL

IT HAS BEGUN: OBAMA IS FORMALLY SIDING WITH ARABS AGAINST ISRAEL:

HAARETZ: U.S. condemns eviction of Arab families from East Jerusalem

The United States and the United Nations sharply condemned the eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and their replacement with Jewish families on Sunday.

Diplomats from the U.S. Embassy sent a protest letter to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, stressing the move went against the spirit of the road map. The diplomats said a high-level protest will be communicated to Israel later on Monday.

A large force of several hundred police officers evicted the two families from their homes in the early Sunday morning. Hours later the families' possessions were cleared from the homes and two Jewish families moved in.

The eviction came at the end of a long legal process. The families, Hannun and Gawi, say they are refugees from Palestinian neighborhoods in West Jerusalem who lost their homes in the War of Independence.

They were housed by the UN and the Jordanian authorities in East Jerusalem homes that previously belonged to a Sephardic community committee. Israeli courts acknowledged the committee's ownership of the houses, but provided a protected tenant status for the residents.

However, the committee, which supports the Jewish families' bid for the homes, had since claimed that the Palestinian families violated the agreement and demanded their eviction. Several families have been evicted over the years, the last - before Sunday - in November 2008. That family's protest tent was demolished during Sunday's eviction.

WHAT'S NEXT, OBAMA VOTING AT THE UNScR TO PUT SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL?

• I HAVE LONG BELIEVED THIS WOULD HAPPEN; TODAY'S EVENTS SOLIDIFY THAT BELIEF.

• THESE EVICTIONS HAVE COME AFTER A LONG LEGAL PROCESS GOING ALL THE WAY TO THE ISRAELI SUPREME COURT - WHICH HAS AN ARAB ON IT!

• THE PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED BY JEWS; THE ARABS LIVING THERE HAD NO RIGHT TO LIVE THERE.

• AS IN THE CASE OF HONDURAS, OBAMA CARES NOT ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW - ONLY AIDING HIS COMRADES ON THE LEFT AND IN THE JIHAD.