JERUSALEM – The house, the accommodations, the houses are a central theme in every election campaign, all over the world: A propaganda tool for the powerful. In Israel it is even more true, and the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu less than two weeks from the elections, could not play a card “building”. The government of Israel announced Thursday the construction of a thousand new homes for the residents of the arabs in the palestinian area of Beit Safafa, but also 2.610 homes for jewish residents in the Givat Hamatos and other 2200 Har Homa. Are new buildings in east Jerusalem, but this is a project frozen in time because it interrupts the territorial continuity of the areas the palestinians, making it more difficult for peace with two States on the basis of the 1967 borders.
The new houses in the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos are a project that is very controversial: the plan was presented in 2012, causing international protests, since it would, in effect, cut the neighborhood palestinians of Beit Safafa and Sharafat from the west bank. Now Netanyahu has declared that they have removed every restriction for these buildings, evidently also strong political support that it offers to the administration Trump that with the “plan of the century” allows the government of Israel to annex part of the palestinian territories without passing by a negotiation with the palestinians, and putting aside for the moment the subject of an approval of the United Nations.
Speaking with reporters in Har Homa, another settlement, Netanyahu said “we are building and expanding of Jerusalem, we are linking all the parts of Jerusalem united: I have removed all restrictions, and now Jerusalem is built under my authority”.
The organization is pacifist, israeli “Peace Now” has harshly criticized the ad, called “a serious blow to a peace with two states: Givat Hamados is the only point that can allow a contiguity spatial between Bethlehem and East Jerusalem, the greater metropolitan area of palestine. If this neighbourhood will be built, says Peace Now – it will not be possible to connect these two cities. Peace Now also asked if a prime minister ad interim, as is Netanyahu, to be able to start a similar project.
palestinians react by criticizing Netanyahu for this move that they judge the election: “Israel try to win the next elections at the expense of the rights of the palestinians”, says Nabil Abu Rudeina, the spokesman for the presidency of palestine. “Those are the lands of the palestinian State, and that the project will separate completely Jerusalem from Bethlehem”.
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