Tag: Jerusalem

  • ‘No difference to U.S. between outpost, East Jerusalem construction’

    Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid & Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 20 July 2009 The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze on settlement construction, American sources have informed both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This clarification came in the context of…

  • Dozens protest east Jerusalem eviction plans

    Ronen Medzini | YNet News 19 July 2009 Maher Hanoun, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem, has been ordered by court to vacate his home. Dozens of the neighborhood’s residents, as well as Jewish and Arab politicians and human rights activists arrived at Hanoun’s house on Sunday to protest the court’s…

  • Wiping Arabic names off the map

    Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch 18 July 2009 Thousands of road signs are the latest front in Israel’s battle to erase Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land. Israel Katz, the transport minister, announced this week that signs on all major roads in Israel, East Jerusalem and possibly parts of the West Bank would be…