Al Ahram Weekly (Egypte) : "Israel still building settlements" par Khaled Amayreh

Israel still building settlements

Despite US demands to the contrary, Israel continues to expand Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, especially in Arab East Jerusalem, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

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Last week, the Obama administration informed Israel that the demanded freeze on settlement building applied to East Jerusalem as well as to the rest of the West Bank. Israeli sources said the State Department had summoned Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren, informing him that plans for the construction of a vast housing complex in Arab East Jerusalem must be terminated.

The "unusual" American message infuriated the Israeli government, prompting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to declare that East Jerusalem was not occupied territory but rather "part of Israel's eternal and undivided capital". The brazenly mendacious remarks, however, seemed directed at Netanyahu's extreme right-wing partners who are firmly opposed to ending the decades-old Israeli occupation of the West Bank on religious and ideological grounds.

Israel occupied East Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, annexing it shortly afterwards.

Adding to his remarks, Netanyahu argued that...........................
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