Israel's plan for the West Bank and Jerusalem: Empty the land of its inhabitants and bring in more settlers

Israeli leftists: Jerusalem mayor is handing the city to settlers
Peace Now and Meretz launch a campaign against Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who recently backed a plan to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in Silwan to make way for a tourist center.
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Yossi Sarid: Jerusalem needs mayor who will divide it
Peace Now conference slams plan to demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem, says Barkat 'handing capital to settlers'.
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Israel steps up forced evictions of West Bank Palestinians
Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to halt forced evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank after a recent spate of military eviction orders were served on Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley.Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to halt forced evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank after a recent spate of military eviction orders were served on Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley. Seventeen families in the Jordan Valley area are at imminent risk of forced eviction after being issued with eviction orders last week.
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UN chief says Israeli settlements 'undermine trust' (AFP)
AFP - Israeli settlement building in the Occupied Territories is undermining trust in the peace process, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said in a letter made public Thursday.
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Home demolitions, arrest raids as Israel implements Jerusalem "Master Plan"
Barkat's "Master Plan" for the city includes accelerated Palestinian home demolitions, illustrated by his recently-announced plan to destroy 22 homes in Silwan, a neighborhood already ravaged by frequent house demolitions and takeovers of homes by armed Jewish settlers under protection from Israeli forces. "Earlier this week, after several years of controversy," reported the Palestine Monitor on 26 June, "the city formally approved an incendiary plan to raze 22 homes in the al-Bustan block of Silwan to make way for tourist sites and urban development ... Jewish development companies have wedged settlers into the Palestinian neighborhood and funded archaeological digging where Palestinian buildings once stood" ("Israelis, Internationals Take Action Against Silwan Demolitions").
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Deleting The East
Three months ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “spat in Obama's eye” by timing high-level diplomatic visits with the announcement of sweeping development plans in East Jerusalem. Now history repeats itself as Jerusalem announced its intention to implement an even more ambitious master plan, giving Israelis unprecedented residency rights in the prospective Palestinian capital. And once again, Bibi is off to Washington. Written by Michael Carpenter.
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Jerusalem Expulsions, JONATHAN COOK
Israeli human-rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week. The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, after claiming they were “in breach of trust” for belonging to a “foreign parliament”, a reference to the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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Ir Amim: Price Tag In Silwan
The latest intention of realizing the three-year-old eviction and sealing order against Beit Yohanatan, located in the Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem, led Knesset member Uri Ariel to express his deep concern for the value of equality in the face of the law: in parallel to the eviction and sealing orders against Beit Yohanatan, Ariel demanded that the city destroy hundreds of Palestinian houses in Silwan that also have had demolition orders served against them.
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