by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News In the next few days, a new Israeli
settlement will be established in the
Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud,
east of Jerusalem, according to the former
Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi.
Map of Ras Al-Amud and nearby areas
Israeli sources reported Monday that the new
Israeli settlement will be constructed on land that
is supposed to be part of future negotiations
between the Israeli government and the Palestinian
Authority. As is the case with most of the 300
settlements that Israel has built in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem, the construction is in
direct violation of Israeli promises made during
negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, in
which Israeli officials promised to halt the
construction of new settlements on stolen
Palestinian land.
But despite Israeli promises to the contrary,
settlement construction has contininued unabated
through all 'negotiation' processes, until nearly
500,000 Israelis live on occupied Palestinian
land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli officials have even made public statements
that they are trying to establish "facts on the ground"
by constructing as many settlements as possible on
Palestinian land, and do not plan to withdraw from
any of the illegally-occupied land.
The new settlement will be in a Palestinian-built building
that was taken over by the Israeli police force, originally
under the pretext of "security reasons", then to establish
a Police Station there.
The right-wing settler group that will be occupying the
place filed an application with the Israeli Jerusalem
municipality to construct a settlement of 110 buildings
on the site. The Police Station will move further into
Palestinian areas in the West Bank, in a new facility
they have constructed on Palestinian land near the
illegal Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
The settlers stated in their application to the Israeli officials
of the Jerusalem municipality (no permit was filed with the
parallel Palestinian officials of the Jerusalem municipality)
that they plan to make the new settlement the center of a
whole new branch of expansion. They will call the colony
"Ma'aleh David", and plan to link it to the "Ma'aleh Zeitim"
colony that was constructed by Irving Moskowitz with the
support of now-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was, at
that time, the Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem. The settlers
stated that they plan to house around 250 Jewish families
in the new settlements (in the midst of an urban center
made up of 14,000 Palestinians). The Israeli military will
be deployed to protect the new colonies.
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