891 Settlement Housing Units Approved In Jerusalem

Construction is intended to block the contiguity of a Palestinian state, critics say.

By Jerusalem Post | December 18, 2015

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Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. (photo credit:Wikimedia Commons)

The Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee on Wednesday furthered plans for 891 previously approved housing units in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.

In a brief statement, a municipal official said that despite media reports that Wednesday’s meeting approved the units, the homes were in fact approved over two years ago. The meeting, the official said, was technical in nature, to determine boundary lines and other considerations, such as gas services, for the homes.

The Gilo neighborhood is over the 1949 armistice line. Last month, in an apparent effort to deescalate tensions with the US and avert another diplomatic row, the government temporarily and abruptly froze plans for the housing development shortly before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Barack Obama in Washington.

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However, in April, construction already commenced for 708 Jewish homes in the disputed neighborhood, which are being built in a forested area, drawing the ire of Palestinian activists and environmentalists alike.

According to critics, the announcement to build in Gilo last year, while US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Israel, helped derail peace talks and buttressed claims that Netanyahu has no intention of agreeing to a twostate solution.

In June, Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher at the NGO Ir Amim, contended that Israel built the Gilo neighborhood to block the contiguity of a Palestinian state.

April’s groundbreaking came one week after the planned construction of some 1,500 apartments in the capital’s southeastern Har Homa neighborhood were frozen, and two days after preliminary plans for the construction of 2,200 Arab housing units in the capital’s southeastern Jebl Mukaber neighborhood were approved by the Interior Ministry’s District Planning and Building Committee.

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KL Scott

International humanitarian law is very clear that occupation must only
be temporary; the Israeli settlements are in direct violation of this
principle. For instance, the settlements are in breach of Article 49 of
the 4th Geneva Convention, which forbids an occupier from transferring
its own civilians into the territory it occupies. Additionally,
according to Article 55 of the Hague Regulations, the occupying power’s
role is to safeguard occupied properties and maintain the status quo.

As the international development organization Diakonia explains, the
construction of settlements violates this article because of the major
changes it inflicts upon the occupied territory. And, according to
Article 43 of the Hague Regulations, the occupying power must uphold
order and safety while respecting the laws of the occupied country. Yet
as Diakonia also explains, the settlements actually undermine public
order and violate existing laws…
Pin Gin

“preliminary plans for the construction of 2,200 Arab housing units in
the capital’s southeastern Jebl Mukaber neighborhood were approved by
the Interior Ministry’s District Planning and Building Committee.”
We should strongly condemn this decision of Israel.
- TecumsehUnfaced
  
  If that’s true (reference, please), why? Unlike the case of the savage ZioNazi invaders, it’s their country.
- KL Scott
  
  Nowhere did it say ” 2,200 Arab housing units”…or maybe you were quoting a different article?
Fred

This is why entire world peace loving people should not trust these dirty baster Zionist apartheid Israelis pigs.
Zionist=ISIS=Destruction
TecumsehUnfaced

It’s definitely time to push BDS all the more strongly. Until the invader ZioNazis are hurting like the Venezuelans were made to hurt by economic sabotage, we will see no abate of the long-continuing savage ZioNazi land grab.
avenger 3

It’s ALL Israel and there is nothing you can do about it.
- TecumsehUnfaced
  
  You’re right. It is entirely the fault of the invader ZioNazi thugs.
  - Jim Kener
    
    PLO military commander, Zahir Muhsein, interviewed in 1977:
    “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is
    only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our
    Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians,
    Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do
    we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab
    national interests demand that we posit the existence a distinct ‘Palestinian
    people’ to oppose Zionism.
    - TecumsehUnfaced
      
      Who cares what that clown is claimed to have said, other than a ZioNazi disinformation agent? By genetics, the indigenes of Palestine have been in Palestine continuously for over ten thousand years, far longer than anything called “Jewish”, including the last two thousand years, when the savagely invading European ZioNazis certainly weren’t, if they were ever there at all.
      
      Zionism is really ZioNazism, a thug enterprise to invade and steal other people’s homes. It needs no Palestinian state to oppose it to lack all legitimacy.
      - Jim Kener
        
        Facts do not back you up. The dome came after the first 2 Jewish temples.
        
        The Jewish people were on the land prior to the term Palestinian ever existing. PLO military commander, Zahir Muhsein, interviewed in 1977:
        “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state isonly a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our
        Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians,
        Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab
        national interests demand that we posit the existence a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.
        
        TecumsehUnfaced
        
        You are a liar. Your yammer about the putative temples and the dome is a deflection and irrelevant. The people of Palestine by science of genetics and dating have been in Palestine for over ten thousand years under many rulers, names, and religions. Your presentation of this quote is a mendacious attempt to justify the foul European ZioNazi invasion of Palestine often employed by duplicitous hasbara trolls.
        
        Sorry, you have no facts to contradict the truth I present, only hasbara yammer.
        
        (For the curious, you can just do an Internet search on “Palestinian genetics”. You will see a long line of supporting reports.)
        
        Jim Kener
        
        TO bad for you that I can present facts and you only propaganda, most people can see even in the face of facts you ignore them.
        
        JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The history of the ground where the Dome of the Rock
        stands is one of repeated conquest and destruction.
        
        The area was first settled by the Canaanites some 4,000 years ago. Jews
        believe that a temple was built during the reign of King Solomon around 1000
        BC, and then destroyed by the Assyrian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.
        Construction of a second Jewish temple began in 516 BC and that building stood
        – with occasional renovations and additions – until the Romans destroyed it in
        70 AD.
        
        Control traded back and forth between Christians,
        Persians, Arabs and others for a thousand years.
        
        Muslims constructed the Dome of the Rock in 691 AD, and
        Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam, 14 years later. The Dome of
        the Rock is built right at the point where the Prophet Mohammad is said to have
        ascended to heaven. That point also happens to be atop the site of Judaism’s
        Second Temple, and encompasses the Foundation Stone, a rock holy to Muslims,
        Jews and Christians.
        
        When the Christian Crusaders wrested Jerusalem from
        Muslim control in 1099, they turned Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock into a
        palace and stables for the Knights Templar, according to archaeologists.
        
        Saladin recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 and Muslims
        have controlled the site ever since, whether the Mamluks, the Ottomans or the
        Jordanians, who oversee it to this day via a trust known as the Islamic Waqf.
        
        TecumsehUnfaced
        
        You just yammered. That’s all.You didn’t present anything relevant to the fact that the Palestinians have been in Palestine for over ten thousand years, far longer than the mythological presence you claim somehow give the European ZioNazi thugs a right to assault the people of Palestine and steal their homeland, a homeland for which the European ZioNazi thugs and their ancestors certainly haven’t been in for the last two thousand years.
        
        Sorry, you European ZioNzis remain a viciously invading gang of thugs squatting by a flood of war crimes on land not yours.
        
        Too bad for you ZioNazis that the Internet makes it so easy to blow apart the old ZioNazi con game you sick clowns have been playing on us for over a century. Here is only a little bit of that massive evidence freely available.
        
        http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/11/the-battle-for-palestine/
        http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/23/the-battle-for-palestine-part-two/
        http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/24/the-battle-for-palestine-part-three/
        
        by William R. Polk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Polk ), who taught Middle Eastern history and politics at Harvard
        
        —
        
        http://www.1948.org.uk/
        
        http://imeu.org/article/the-nakba-65-years-of-dispossession-and-apartheid
        
        http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41864.htm
        
        http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/11/11/zionist-crimes-against-the-jews
        
        http://www.inminds.co.uk/jews-of-iraq.html
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Plan
        
        http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/lavon.html
        
        http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
        
        Feel free to yammer again. I love tromping on liars like you.
        
        TecumsehUnfaced
        
        Here’s something else you might want to present a lot of irrelevant facts about:
        
        http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons