OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli security sources revealed Israeli intents to expand illegal settlement construction in areas of the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem to absorb an influx of Jewish immigrants from France.
In a letter recently dispatched to the settlement council the Israeli housing minister Uri Ariel has instructed authorities to look at ways to expand existing settlements so as to make room for a wave of French immigration Channel 2 reported Wednesday showing the letter on screen.
“There is no doubt that the Jews of France feel a deep identity with the settlement project” Ariel claimed vowing that his government will do whatever it takes to help France’s Jews set up roots in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli officials have been taking advantage of the latest terror attacks in Paris to urge French Jews to move to Israel amid an outspoken dismay reportedly expressed by French officials over such calls.
The number of French-Jewish immigrants was already predicted to rise sharply from last year’s record number of 6000 after more than doubling since 2013.
The Jewish Agency promoting emigration to Israel said original estimates for 2015 reach up to 15000 French immigrants attributing such an increasing flood to “rising anti-Semitism and rolling setbacks in France’s economic growth.”
