The rural community is divided between the surrounding villages and close to the old town such as Silwan, and between the remote villages located in the south and north of Jerusalem, including differ- ences in the level of urbanization and the city and the polarization and absorp- tion of migration, as the villages/neighborhoods southeast of East Jerusalem (Sur Baher and Sawahra) are the more trad. [...] Although the Jerusalem scheme of 1968 was not officially approved under the Israeli Planning and Building Law, it set the direction for the policies and trends of the development of the city after the annexation of 1967, and estab- lished a basis for the confiscation of land in East Jerusalem and the estab- lishment of Israeli settlements thereon (Felner 1995). [...] Khamaisi | The Trap of Urban Planning Development in Jerusalem 121 Palestinian population exceeded one-third of the population, the expectations of the Jerusalem 2000 plan are that the ratio of the Jewish population to the Arabs in Jerusalem is forty:sixty; the ratio thirty:seventy was determined ten years into the occupation according to the decision of the Jaffni Committee (Ministerial Committee. [...] The integration of the plans of these sectoral institutions, which translate the process of localization and the empowerment of the Israeli pres- ence and development in East Jerusalem, narrow the opportunities for Pales- tinian development, even if the Palestinians do accept the course of planning and enter the framework of the planning trap. [...] As part of the plan to reduce the number of Palestinians within the boundaries of the Jerusalem Municipality, the location of the wall was designed with the intention to “remove” some fifty thousand Palestinian Jerusalemites behind the wall without changing the status of individuals and the administrative Khamaisi | The Trap of Urban Planning Development in Jerusalem 131 and geopolitical boundarie.
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