ESCALATION OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENT AND DISPLACEMENT PLANS IN JERUSALEM
On the occasion of his National Building Planning in Israel-book launch, Professor Jabareen declared he found out, after intensive research, that it was possible for the IOA to strategically hold sway over several Palestinian territories ever since the establishment of the Zionist Movement more than 120 years ago.
But until 1948 it wasn’t possible for the occupation neither to fulfill its long-awaited dream of purchasing the land nor to set up settlement units over large areas of the land, Palestinians Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
Meanwhile the Zionist Movement managed to take control over 7% of the Palestinian territories before resuming its dispossession crusades after Nakba, in the aftermath of which 93% were confiscated as opposed to 2.5% only left for Palestinians.
Jabareen further stated that due to Israeli settlement at the expense of Arabs, native inhabitants and young couples were forced to immigrate to other neighboring Jewish areas. The Jewish Nistrit Illit town has been transformed into a mixed “salad bowl” populated by 31% of Arabs over the last ten decades.
“But things are much more complicated in occupied Jerusalem. Unfortunately Jewish population has gone up to 44% of the overall population rate in Eastern Occupied Jerusalem due to the unwarranted demographic planning policies executed by the IOA.
“Such policies gave birth to a set of unwelcome bi-national geographies in the Eastern Occupied Jerusalem and other settlement units. In my opinion, those policies get in the way of establishing an Independent Palestinian state having Jerusalem as its major capital” Jabareen adds.
Jabreen recommended an urgent decision to resume negotiations on the basis of historical Palestine’s map instead of the 1967 map and to reconsider the establishment of a Palestinian state with delineated borders and territories. (T/P02/E01)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
