Israeli Ethnic Cleansing Undiminished in Jerusalem, by Katherine Metres, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September/ October 1994.

Special report on the Israeli war on demography – consistent policies aimed at reducing the number of Palestinians living in Jerusalem.   

"[T]he Israeli government redrew the boundaries of the Jerusalem municipality to include as much undeveloped West Bank land as possible, thus providing sites for construction of housing for enough Jews to offset the Arab population of East Jerusalem. However, some Arab villages which had belonged to Jerusalem according to the Jordanian authorities who governed East Jerusalem from 1949-1967 found themselves excluded. In this way, the Israelis hoped to 'Judaize' Jerusalem, crushing any Palestinian hope of regaining control even of East Jerusalem to make it the capital of a Palestinian state."

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