Justice involves people receiving what they deserve and having their rights respected. Several discussants express that there is no justice for Palestinians in the Israeli courts, which discriminate against them. They want to live in peace with their families but have been bullied and suffered for generations under Israeli rule. Losing their homes to evictions has taken away their sense of normalcy and freedom. While some obtained their homes legally from Jordan, Israel does not respect these contracts. One says justice does not truly exist as the criteria is applied differently by nationality. Palestinians are paying the price for wrongs committed against Israelis.

1. What is your idea of
justice?

2. Aref Hamad:
Justice is the idea that each person
should get what they deserve

5. Khawla
Hanoun:
Justice is
giving a
right to its
owner.
Neither
Israel nor
the Arab
countries
recognize
that right.
Only God
does.

7. Harbi Muhammad Atiya:
What more do we want but to live in
peace and quiet with our children?

9. We have
Majed been bullied
Hanoun: by the courts
There is no for 37 years.
justice in the Three
Israeli courts
generations
and before the
Israeli judges. have already
To the endured this
contrary: there suffering,
is glaring which is like
discrimination a death
sentence.

11. Nabil Kurd:
What is justice? To get the rights we
deserve, and live in peace and quiet.

13. Muhammad Sabagh:
Justice is to live a normal life. Before the
evictions you could take your wife and
kids for a stroll and change of
atmosphere. Now we don’t feel like
going out. Even if we went for a stroll,
we would just be thinking about our
houses the whole time.

16. Yakoub Abu Orfa:
We got the homes from the Jordanian
government, and the departure of one
government and advent of another
should not change anything. We have a
contract with the Jordanian government
and the Israeli government should honor
it.

19. Maher Aweida:
What happened in 1967?
In 1967 my father said: I am going to
live and die in my house. In 1948 I was
young and could start my life over after
the expulsion, but now I can’t. The
catastrophe of 1948 will not happen
again.

22. Mustafa Nusseibeh:
Justice? There is no such thing.
What kind of justice is it that changes the
criteria by nationality?
You are doing us the same injustice you
suffered from!
Why did you come and take my place and my
house? Why do I have to pay the price for the
wrong that was done to you? Go to whoever
did it to you.

24. Tawfik al-Jaouni:
Every day I wake up to inscriptions
of “Death to Arabs” and “Go Away”
on my house.