A New Era of Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem and Environs Begins
Settlement Report Vol. 17 No. 2 March - April 2007
Israel is stepping up its effort to enclose Jerusalem with a ring of barriers and settlements designed to sever Palestinian East Jerusalem from the West Bank. Recent announcements of significant settlement expansion in the areas in and around Neve Ya'acov and the former siteof the airport at Atarot signify a major push by Israel to link East Jerusalem area settlements on both sides of the separation barrier, to establish an unbroken belt of settlement along East Jerusalem's northern perimeter, and perhaps of most significance, to tie Road 60 settlements--from Ma'ale Adumim north to Shilo and Eli--to the Tel Aviv metropolis and the coastal plain.
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