The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues his efforts to improve the settlement in Jerusalem, which raises questions on the real Israeli objectives and required to face this settlement.
According to the expert in Jerusalem and colonization affairs, Khalil Al -Takbakji, Israeli policy is based on the Palestinian districts of the Jewish colonies, then established colony households in the Palestinian districts.
After that, the Palestinian districts are transformed into mosaic inside the Jewish districts to dissolve East Jerusalem with Western Jerusalem, according to Al -Takfji.
He stressed that Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967 was a marginal city, but the situation differs after that, because Israel wanted to place it now in the heart of the Hebrew state.
The Israeli authorities intend to ratify the creation of more than a thousand settlement units in East Jerusalem, and the plan includes the construction of 380 settlement units in the “Nouf Tsion” regulation near Jabal Al -Mukaber, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
The plan also includes the construction of 650 settlement units between the colony “Har Homa” and the “Rama Ramhel” district near Baher Tire.
The expert in Jerusalem and business expressed Israeli regulation practices in Jerusalem and expand the borders of his municipality by controlling geography and demography and the formation of Jerusalem in the Israeli concept.
He also underlined what is happening inside the old town of Jerusalem and the chronology of the expansion of the Jewish district inside 5 dunums to 130 dunums and trying to increase the Israeli population, stressing that it is surrounded by colony homes and biblical gardens.
The Israeli broadcasting corporation said that the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem had presented a proposal to the government calling for the expansion of the region of the Municipality of Jerusalem to include colonies based on land classified as the West Bank.
The proposal aims – according to the mayor – to strengthen the Jewish majority in Jerusalem and devote it to the capital of the State of Israel “, as he said.
In turn, the secretary general of the Palestinian national initiative, Mustafa Al -Barghouthi, said that Israel had 3 goals in Jerusalem which explains the audacity of his settlement plans, namely:
- Judaïser Jerusalem and prudence in the old town by creating colonies around it.
- Use Jerusalem Judaïsation for the expansion of regulations and the control of the greatest number of land.
- The share of the West Bank is part of the colonies in Jerusalem and in the Jordan valley and by cutting all geographic communication between the components of the West Bank in a plan to blow up any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.
According to Al -Barghouti, Israel works to modify the characteristics and geography of the West Bank by including land and expansion of settlement through tools, in particular the apartheid wall, Israeli barriers and around the outline.
He concluded that Israel repeats what he did in the lands of 1948 in the regions of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Consequently, Israel aims – according to Al -Barghouthhi – weaken the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by Judaïsation and confiscate the goods of the Palestinians, and create difficult economic conditions to force them to leave, as well as social and economic vandalism.
According to Israeli estimates, the Palestinians represent 39% of the population of the city of Jerusalem with its eastern and Western parts, a concern rate for Israel, according to declarations of its civil servants.
The secretary general of the Palestinian national initiative thought that the response to the Israeli stages is in 3 steps, namely:
- Install and support people’s consistency in the field.
- Support the rest of the inhabitants of the country of Palestine through plans to ensure that all those who have the ingredients of the contribution.
- Palestinian unity and the application of what has been agreed in Beijing to establish a unified national government.
He expressed his regret that all legal measures or negotiation solutions were not effective in stopping the Israeli plans, indicating that the response lies in the fight, struggle and resistance to change the balance of powers, support the consistency and survival of people, in addition to the boycott movement and the taxation of sanctions.
He concluded that the colonists have become a political, electoral and economic force in Israel, and they also formed a lobby that works in different countries.
In turn, the Israeli journalist, Ihab Jabareen, was not surprised by the acceleration of Israeli settlement plans in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and said that what is more dangerous and not calculated must be expected.
Jabareen stressed that these plans constitute satisfaction of the extreme right and fall into the context of the promises of the government coalition before October 20, 2023, as well as in the context of the distraction of attention against what the government of Netanyahu does.
Jerusalem – According to Jabareen – is one of the poorest cities in Israel and it is difficult for the Jews to live there, so such Aviv tries to “build a settlement strategy to improve the Jewish presence”.
He underlined the visit of Israeli officials who have a long regulation in the regulation, led by the Minister of Finance at Salafel Smotrich in the United States, stressing that the settlers are today economically and culturally strong.