Jerusalem settlements plan to isolate Palestinians
Israel-Palestine, Politics, 1/20/1998

Diplomatic sources disclosed that a team formed by the Municipality of Jerusalem recommended that complete Arab areas should be established outside the borders of greater Jerusalem and to annex some of the Jewish settlements that had been set up around the city in order to keep a Jewish majority in the city.

The sources added that a planning team in the city is currently trying to develop a strategic map of the city of Jerusalem and that it submitted its recommendations that will modify the city's borders in order to remove the Arab areas which lie in the northern and southeast parts of the city.

The Israeli director of the municipality who is responsible for creating this map refuted the idea that the Palestinian areas would be placed under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

The recommendations of the team included preserving the Jewish secular and religious topography of the city and to ensure the existence of Jewish religious majority of 65% against 35% of religious extremists. According to those recommendations, some of the religious settlements were excluded from the new borders of the city.

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