Professor William A. Jacobson asks "What if Palestinians Were Settlers?" Barack Obama's insistence that Israel cease all building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, calling such neighborhoods "settlements," raises an interesting question. Who are the settlers in Jerusalem.In support of his contention that it isn't quite clear who are the "settlers " in Jerusalem he describes the background of George Bisharat, Professor at Hastings School of Law and a leader in the forces seek to delegitimize Israeli claims to Jerusalem: * Bisharat's grandfather was from what now is Jordan: "My grandfather, whom we all called ‘Papa', was born in 1893 in as-Salt, now in Jordan, although then a part of an Ottoman district called the Belqa', that straddled the Jordan River." * Bisharat's great grandparents were from Nablus, now under Palestinian Authority control, not Jerusulem or any part of what now is Israel: "[Bisharat's grandfather]...(Read Full Post)