During a press conference held on September 13, 2004, and in unprecedented move, the Israeli Mayor in Jerusalem, Mr. Uri Lupolianski, disclosed a master plan "Jerusalem 2000" for the City of Jerusalem to serve as a mandatory map for land use and a blueprint for other municipal planning purposes until the year 2020. The plan incorporates occupied East Jerusalem. The last time Israel approved a comprehensive plan for Jerusalem was in 1959. An attempt to issue a plan which incorporated occupied East Jerusalem was foiled in 1978. The public disclosure of the present master plan is politically and ideologically motivated, and comes at a time when Israel is precipitating its measures to undermine any future negotiations over the final status of the city. For the goal of scheme, as pronounced in the executive summary of the plan, is "to create a framework to proceed with the development of the "City of Jerusalem" as a capital for the state of Israel, as a center for the Jewish people and a seat for its government.” And “to achieve a long term goal which reflects the future vision for the city as conceived by the City’s ‘fathers’ ”.
The Coalition for Jerusalem in an attempt to counteract the proposed plan, has successfully translated the plan from Hebrew to English, produced a preliminary report on the implications of the plan on Occupied East Jerusalem, formulated the Coalition's position in a statement and a letter to the Quartet and provided activists with a power point presentation that illustrates the fact that if this plan is implemented it will put an end to possibility of Occupied East Jerusalem becoming the capital of the future Palestinian State.
Jerusalem Master Plan
(unofficial translation)
Preliminary Report on the Implications of the Plan on Occupied East Jerusalem
Call for Action
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Noor, this is really interesting. Who is the the Coalition of Jerusalem that is translating the document? What is the groups' aim?
I wonder what grassroots peace organizations in Israel are saying about this. I know I have read about a new thrust towards settlement in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank. It appears, from this article, that this is a push, sponsored by the government, to incorporate East Jerusalem into all of Israeli Jerusalem. Is this how you see it? Are there specific government-sponsored activities to settle people today?
Coalition of Jerusalem is a Network of Palestinian institute's that work on human rights for the Jerusalemites. And this document starts to develop when Mr. Olmert was the head of Jerusalem municipality. I think that document is part of Israel 2020 plan.
The main thing inside this document that the Israeli's would like to arrive to 12% of Palestinians inside Jerusalem. Which is very bad experience to Jerusalemites and violate all the directions of every humanity thing.
I don’t know if any of the grassroots peace organizations in Israel do anything against that.
Yes the new settlement inside Jerusalem that receive thrust is Ma'ale Adumim one which is in my way to al-Quds University in Abu Dies, and if you enter inside it you will notice the big difference between the care of its infrastructure and the one in East Jerusalem.
No actually the specific government-sponsored activities to settle people today is with unsettle them by not give a lot of permits to build new houses while the people increasing day after day, In addition to that they Demolition the houses that didn’t receive a building permit.
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