EU Report Accusing Israel of “Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem”

According to Haaretz, the “EU document accuses Israel of using settlement expansion, the security barrier in the West Bank, Palestinian house demolitions and discriminatory housing policies to gain control over East Jerusalem.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Israeli order for the eviction of 1500 Palestinians in East Jerusalem “unhelpful,”  and that is as far as criticism from the United States for Israel’s recent policies in Jerusalem has gone and probably will go.

So I’m glad that the EU pointed out the obvious fact that these evictions, home demolitions, and settlement projects have a larger goal; to continue Israel’s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem and to complete its Judaization of all of Jerusalem.

The report terms Israel’s home demolitions to be ‘illegal under international law.’ The report also accuses Israel of undermining the Palestinian Authority by these unilateral acts that delegitimize the peace process.

According to the Guardian, the idiot Mark Regev (Israeli spokesperson)  has responded to these accusations by saying that : the “conditions for Palestinians living in East Jerusalem were better than in the West Bank. “East Jerusalem residents are under Israeli law and they were offered full Israeli citizenship after that law was passed in 1967,” he said. “We are committed to the continued development of the city for the benefit of all its population.” He clearly was not addressing any of the points in the EU report, but when does he ever really answer any question posed to him?

I’ve searched for the EU report. It’s not online yet.

~ by nollla on March 7, 2009.