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In 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem. It did so lawlessly. Judaization was planned. The city's cultural and spiritual character changed.
Palestinian land was stolen. Settlements were established and expanded. Palestinians were dispossessed and denied. Military occupation controls them.
Transformation continues relentless to this day. Israel wants the entire city Judaized. A greater Jerusalem is planned. Municipal boundaries are extended to achieve it. So does a matrix of control. World leaders do nothing to stop it.
Fundamental international law is ignored. On March 1, 1980, UN Security Council Resolution 465 declared that:
"all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant (Fourth Geneva) violation....and also constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East."On July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and an obstacle to peace and to economic and social development (and) have been established in breach of international law."
Israel spurns UN resolutions, other binding international laws, and ICJ rulings. It does so with impunity. It's been unaccountable for decades. Washington's support affords immunity.
Netanyahu calls Jerusalem sovereign Israeli territory. "Jerusalem was always ours and will always be ours," he claims. "It will never again be partitioned and divided."
He wants Palestinians dispossessed and removed. He wants unobstructed settlement expansions. He wants no restrictions put on Israeli "building in our sovereign capital."
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