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Funding to Stop Palestinians from Renting in Jerusalem Settlement

By Alternative Information Center (AIC)
8.8.10
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/jerusalem/2795-funding-to-stop-palestinians-from-renting-in-jerusalem-settlement


Jewish couples who move to the East Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Zeev will receive rent assistance in order to discourage Palestinians from renting flats in the area. `The idea is to halt the plague of Arabs renting flats throughout Pisgat Zeev,` notes `A`, coordinator of this initiative, who refused to give his name or that of the funding organization. The local Hebrew-language newspaper Mynet noted that the target population of this initiative is national-religious couples and primarily settlers. According to `A,` `the more settlers, the better. The Arabs get angrier when they see a settler who rents a flat here.`

Rising housing costs in Jerusalem, propelled largely by Israel`s construction of the Separation Wall around the city and its refusal to provide building permits to Palestinian Jerusalemites, have compelled Palestinian residents of Jerusalem and Palestinian citizens of Israel to increasingly seek more affordable housing in the city`s Israeli settlements. Settlements in northern Jerusalem, including French Hill and Ramat Eshkol, serve as temporary residence for a number of Palestinian citizens of Israel attending the nearby Hebrew University. According to the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights, at least 30,000 Palestinians with Jerusalem residency returned to the city following Israel`s construction of the Separation Wall and its attendant restrictions on freedom of movement, employment and worship, amongst other human rights violations.

Support for the racist funding for Jewish couples to push Palestinian residents out of Pisgat Zeev is provided by Eli Ben Hamo, Head of the state-funded Community Administration of the settlement. `Recently there has been a decline of rentals to Arabs as there is no supply, but new building is now being carried out in Pisgat Zeev and better that national religious (Jewish) people enter and not Arabs,` he told Mynet.






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