East Jerusalem: no state in sight..& more from IMEU
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East Jerusalem: no state in sight
Stuart Reigeluth, Al-Ahram Weekly, May 18, 2007
This article was originally published by Al-Ahram Weekly and is republished with permission.
Another Jewish settlement is being built. It is called Nev Tzion/ Manthar Al-Thahabi (the Golden View) because it overlooks Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock. The settlement is located in the middle of the Arab neighbourhood of Jabal Mukabir.
On the back of Israeli buses, advertisements claim that the prices for apartments at Nev Tzion have reached $200,000, providing a bargain for European and American Jews who might possibly desire a vacation home in the Holy Land, the "Eternal Capital of Israel", as the former Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin (who also annexed the Golan Heights in 1981) once called Jerusalem.
As a result of the Six-Day June 1967 War, Israel conquered East Jerusalem from Jordan, the barb wire separating east and west Jerusalem was torn down and the city was "reunited".
Meanwhile, a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) leaked to the media, has separately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law.
According to the report, Israeli policy has far reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in east Jerusalem.
The confidential report transmitted to Israel on February 2007 showed Israel's "general disregard" for its obligations under international humanitarian law and the law of military occupation in particular.
Yet, Israel rejected the report, "we reject the premise of the report, East Jerusalem is not occupied land, it is part of Israel," said Israeli foreign Minister spokesman Mark Regev.
Furthermore, according to the authors of a new book, Separate and Unequal, Israel's Judaisation and discriminatory policy towards East Jerusalem has become a "d e facto " one. The authors, Amir Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, go to great lengths to describe how, since 1967, the Arab population has fared badly under the supposed "re-unification" of Jerusalem.
Treated as an "ethnic minority" with lesser political rights and social privileges, Arabs in East Jerusalem are also subject to inferior quality social services such as water, postal services, electricity and garbage collection. The first Palestinian Intifada exacerbated the divisions between the east and west, while the second reinforced and militarised Palestinian frustration, following decades of Israeli mistreatment. ...[more]
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East Jerusalem: no state in sight
Stuart Reigeluth, Al-Ahram Weekly, May 18, 2007
This article was originally published by Al-Ahram Weekly and is republished with permission.
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A Palestinian man shows his identity papers to an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. (Maan Images) |
On the back of Israeli buses, advertisements claim that the prices for apartments at Nev Tzion have reached $200,000, providing a bargain for European and American Jews who might possibly desire a vacation home in the Holy Land, the "Eternal Capital of Israel", as the former Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin (who also annexed the Golan Heights in 1981) once called Jerusalem.
As a result of the Six-Day June 1967 War, Israel conquered East Jerusalem from Jordan, the barb wire separating east and west Jerusalem was torn down and the city was "reunited".
Meanwhile, a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) leaked to the media, has separately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law.
According to the report, Israeli policy has far reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in east Jerusalem.
The confidential report transmitted to Israel on February 2007 showed Israel's "general disregard" for its obligations under international humanitarian law and the law of military occupation in particular.
Yet, Israel rejected the report, "we reject the premise of the report, East Jerusalem is not occupied land, it is part of Israel," said Israeli foreign Minister spokesman Mark Regev.
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Furthermore, according to the authors of a new book, Separate and Unequal, Israel's Judaisation and discriminatory policy towards East Jerusalem has become a "d e facto " one. The authors, Amir Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, go to great lengths to describe how, since 1967, the Arab population has fared badly under the supposed "re-unification" of Jerusalem.
Treated as an "ethnic minority" with lesser political rights and social privileges, Arabs in East Jerusalem are also subject to inferior quality social services such as water, postal services, electricity and garbage collection. The first Palestinian Intifada exacerbated the divisions between the east and west, while the second reinforced and militarised Palestinian frustration, following decades of Israeli mistreatment. ...[more]
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