OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– An Israeli group known as Saving Jewish Jerusalem called for the immediate establishment of a “security fence” in occupied Jerusalem in order to separate it from its eastern part.
The group was founded by the former cabinet minister Haim Ramon and a number of Knesset members and former army leaders Maariv Hebrew newspaper revealed.
“Saving Jewish Jerusalem’s platform which will also be presented to the public calls for handing control of 28 Palestinian villages in East Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The villages in question had been an integral part of the West Bank until Israel annexed them in 1967.”
By removing some 200000 Palestinians from the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem the city’s Jews will constitute more than 80% of its residents and the percentage of Palestinians will drop to less than 20% from the nearly 40% today according to the newspaper.
Not only that the group stresses revoking the Palestinians’ Israeli residency permits will ease the economic burden these villages impose on the Israeli taxpayer some 2-3 billion Israeli shekels ($500-$750 million) in social and medical care.
Members of the movement argue that the Palestinian villages are massively detrimental to the prosperity of the Israeli capital in terms of security demographic balance standard of living and economic well-being.
