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Article: Israel's Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem.
- Article from:
- The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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By Stephen Lendman -- Chicago
So says a confidential EU report revealed on March 7 by The London Guardian's Rory McCarthy. It accuses Israel "of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank (Separation) barrier as a way of 'actively pursuing the illegal annexation' of East Jerusalem." More still, including restrictive permits, "closure of Palestinian institutions," and various other ways to "increase Jewish presence in" the city, "impede Palestinian urban development, and separate East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank" incrementally to annex it.
It says plans are now accelerated and have ...