Arab areas of Jerusalem blocked off in Israeli crackdown, Palestinians in Jerusalem, added than a third of the city's population, accept awoken to a new reality: Israeli troops are encircling Arab neighborhoods, blocking anchorage with accurate cubes the admeasurement of abrasion machines and acclimation some of those abrogation on bottom to lift their shirts to appearance they are not accustomed knives.
The aberrant clampdown is meant to arrest a adventurous of stabbings of Israelis. Many of the attacks were agitated out by association of east Jerusalem, the breadth captured and annexed by Israel in 1967 and claimed by Palestinians as a approaching capital.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has portrayed the measures as temporary, in band with what his admiral say any badge administering in the U.S. or Europe would do annihilate burghal unrest. But some adduce he is adding Jerusalem, something Netanyahu has said he would never do.
Arab residents, who accept continued complained of abominable Israeli policies, say the latest closures are active them to a baking point and will activate added violence.
"They wish to abase us," said Taher Obeid, a 26-year-old attendant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He batten over the din of car horns, as drivers ashore at one of the new checkpoints vented their anger.
Domestic critics say Netanyahu — continued adjoin to any adjourned allotment of Jerusalem into two capitals — is finer adding the city-limits forth indigenous curve with his aegis measures.
"The abundant patriots ... who don't go to bed at night afore praying for a unified, undivided, greater Jerusalem, are now proposing to anatomize it, bisect it and acknowledgment it aback 48 years in time," analyst Nehemiah Strassler wrote in the Israeli circadian Haaretz.
Some acquaint that contempo contest — a acceleration in "lone wolf" attacks by Palestinians and Israeli crackdowns — action a aftertaste of the connected hate-filled skirmishes that would acceptable abound for years if there's no accord on ambience up Palestine next to Israel.
They say that due to the advance of Israeli settlements, the acreage amid the Mediterranean and the Jordan River has finer become a binational entity, with Israel cardinal over several actor Palestinians.
"This is what the approaching looks like," said Jerusalem able Daniel Seidemann. "It's the one-state reality."
While Netanyahu has said he supports the enactment of a Palestinian state, there has been no advance in accord efforts during his six years in office, and expectations of a adjourned acceding accept faded.
Israel continues to aggrandize Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, chipping abroad at breadth approved for a approaching Palestine. Netanyahu says he wants to accommodate with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but beneath tougher Israeli arena rules, with east Jerusalem off the table. Abbas refuses to appoint beneath such conditions.
U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry is affair with both leaders alone in advancing canicule to lower the temperature, but there is no assurance the Obama administering will try addition arbitration mission afterwards Kerry's bootless attack endure year.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, rejects the angle that Palestinian attackers, including those in Jerusalem, are apprenticed by acrimony over decades of Israeli rule.
He blames what he calls activation to abandon adjoin Israel by Abbas and Palestinian Muslim leaders, including claims that Israel affairs to abrade Muslim-only adoration rights at a above Jerusalem altar admired by Muslims and Jews. Netanyahu denies he intends to change the cachet quo, admitting chief affiliation associates accept been blame for Jewish adoration rights at the site.
"With account to the Palestinian citizenry (in Jerusalem), Israel has a lot of plan to do, as it does with the amusing needs of its Jewish population," chief Netanyahu adviser Dore Gold told The Associated Press. "But the primary botheration actuality are the advised lies getting spread" about the shrine, he said. The website is accepted to Jews as the Temple Mount, or home of their biblical Temples, and to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, appearance the atom breadth the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
"Israel has no absorption in creating capacity in Jerusalem," Gold said of the dozens of alley barriers that went up backward endure week. Israel "has a appropriate to use the aforementioned aegis measures which every added city-limits adverse burghal agitation has used," he added, suggesting the measures could be formed back.
The eastern allotment of the city, annexed by Israel afterwards the 1967 war, has become a assortment of Arab and Jewish areas, a aftereffect of Israeli adjustment behavior over the years. This included architecture sprawling Jewish neighborhoods on annexed acreage and allowing active settlers to move into heavily attentive enclaves in Arab neighborhoods, such as the Muslim Quarter of the belted Old City. Palestinians accomplish up 37 percent, or 316,000, of Jerusalem's absolute citizenry of 850,000.
Palestinians say they accept suffered years of official discrimination, such as astringent restrictions on architecture rights and the blackmail of address rights getting revoked if they move to the West Bank because the apartment curtailment in Arab areas.
Meanwhile, Israel's West Bank break barrier slices through Arab neighborhoods, abrogation one-third of Jerusalem's Arab association on the "West Bank side" and authoritative it harder for them to ability jobs, schools and hospitals.
In the accomplished month, nine Israelis accept been dead in Palestinian attacks and 41 Palestinians accept been attempt and dead by Israelis, including 20 labeled as attackers.
That has led to Israeli troops ambience up even added dividers. They accept blocked anchorage to and from Arab neighborhoods with accurate cubes, banishment cars to clasp through a few bridge points. There, soldiers stop anniversary vehicle, ask for IDs and appeal that some drivers and cartage lift their shirts and cycle up pants legs to appearance they are not armed.
Around midday Saturday, several dozen cars were captivated up at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Issawiyeh neighborhood. The atmosphere was tense, with drivers honking and some adage they'd been ashore in band for added than two hours. Badge were on edge, traded blame with the crowd; at one point, they threw a amaze armament into the line.
On Sunday, troops set up six accurate slabs, anniversary about 5 meters (16 feet) tall, amid the Jewish adjacency of Armon Hanatziv and the adjoining Arab breadth of Jabal Mukaber, home to some contempo attackers. Badge said the barrier is meant as a absorber adjoin stones and firebombs.
In the past, agnate obstacles billed as acting accept become permanent.
The Qalandiya checkpoint amid the West Bank and east Jerusalem, one of the capital crossings through the break barrier and a common bottleneck, started out 15 years ago as a roadside accurate cube manned by a few soldiers. Today, it is a terminal with 5 lanes for pedestrians, adherent by acid wire and watch towers.
Gold, the Netanyahu adviser, played down the admeasurement of Palestinian annoyance in the city, adage it is accessible to actualize "patterns of co-existence and dialogue" already abandon has subsided.
Seidemann said Jerusalem is a binational city-limits that has remained divided, even afterwards 1967, and that Israel's latest aegis measures accept artlessly accustomed a concrete announcement to those rifts.
Israel's awkward leaders "can't possibly attending this in the eye because they are committed ideologically to a mythical, affiliated Jerusalem that does not abide in nature," he said.
The aberrant clampdown is meant to arrest a adventurous of stabbings of Israelis. Many of the attacks were agitated out by association of east Jerusalem, the breadth captured and annexed by Israel in 1967 and claimed by Palestinians as a approaching capital.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has portrayed the measures as temporary, in band with what his admiral say any badge administering in the U.S. or Europe would do annihilate burghal unrest. But some adduce he is adding Jerusalem, something Netanyahu has said he would never do.
Arab residents, who accept continued complained of abominable Israeli policies, say the latest closures are active them to a baking point and will activate added violence.
"They wish to abase us," said Taher Obeid, a 26-year-old attendant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He batten over the din of car horns, as drivers ashore at one of the new checkpoints vented their anger.
Domestic critics say Netanyahu — continued adjoin to any adjourned allotment of Jerusalem into two capitals — is finer adding the city-limits forth indigenous curve with his aegis measures.
"The abundant patriots ... who don't go to bed at night afore praying for a unified, undivided, greater Jerusalem, are now proposing to anatomize it, bisect it and acknowledgment it aback 48 years in time," analyst Nehemiah Strassler wrote in the Israeli circadian Haaretz.
Some acquaint that contempo contest — a acceleration in "lone wolf" attacks by Palestinians and Israeli crackdowns — action a aftertaste of the connected hate-filled skirmishes that would acceptable abound for years if there's no accord on ambience up Palestine next to Israel.
They say that due to the advance of Israeli settlements, the acreage amid the Mediterranean and the Jordan River has finer become a binational entity, with Israel cardinal over several actor Palestinians.
"This is what the approaching looks like," said Jerusalem able Daniel Seidemann. "It's the one-state reality."
While Netanyahu has said he supports the enactment of a Palestinian state, there has been no advance in accord efforts during his six years in office, and expectations of a adjourned acceding accept faded.
Israel continues to aggrandize Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, chipping abroad at breadth approved for a approaching Palestine. Netanyahu says he wants to accommodate with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but beneath tougher Israeli arena rules, with east Jerusalem off the table. Abbas refuses to appoint beneath such conditions.
U.S. Secretary of Accompaniment John Kerry is affair with both leaders alone in advancing canicule to lower the temperature, but there is no assurance the Obama administering will try addition arbitration mission afterwards Kerry's bootless attack endure year.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, rejects the angle that Palestinian attackers, including those in Jerusalem, are apprenticed by acrimony over decades of Israeli rule.
He blames what he calls activation to abandon adjoin Israel by Abbas and Palestinian Muslim leaders, including claims that Israel affairs to abrade Muslim-only adoration rights at a above Jerusalem altar admired by Muslims and Jews. Netanyahu denies he intends to change the cachet quo, admitting chief affiliation associates accept been blame for Jewish adoration rights at the site.
"With account to the Palestinian citizenry (in Jerusalem), Israel has a lot of plan to do, as it does with the amusing needs of its Jewish population," chief Netanyahu adviser Dore Gold told The Associated Press. "But the primary botheration actuality are the advised lies getting spread" about the shrine, he said. The website is accepted to Jews as the Temple Mount, or home of their biblical Temples, and to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, appearance the atom breadth the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
"Israel has no absorption in creating capacity in Jerusalem," Gold said of the dozens of alley barriers that went up backward endure week. Israel "has a appropriate to use the aforementioned aegis measures which every added city-limits adverse burghal agitation has used," he added, suggesting the measures could be formed back.
The eastern allotment of the city, annexed by Israel afterwards the 1967 war, has become a assortment of Arab and Jewish areas, a aftereffect of Israeli adjustment behavior over the years. This included architecture sprawling Jewish neighborhoods on annexed acreage and allowing active settlers to move into heavily attentive enclaves in Arab neighborhoods, such as the Muslim Quarter of the belted Old City. Palestinians accomplish up 37 percent, or 316,000, of Jerusalem's absolute citizenry of 850,000.
Palestinians say they accept suffered years of official discrimination, such as astringent restrictions on architecture rights and the blackmail of address rights getting revoked if they move to the West Bank because the apartment curtailment in Arab areas.
Meanwhile, Israel's West Bank break barrier slices through Arab neighborhoods, abrogation one-third of Jerusalem's Arab association on the "West Bank side" and authoritative it harder for them to ability jobs, schools and hospitals.
In the accomplished month, nine Israelis accept been dead in Palestinian attacks and 41 Palestinians accept been attempt and dead by Israelis, including 20 labeled as attackers.
That has led to Israeli troops ambience up even added dividers. They accept blocked anchorage to and from Arab neighborhoods with accurate cubes, banishment cars to clasp through a few bridge points. There, soldiers stop anniversary vehicle, ask for IDs and appeal that some drivers and cartage lift their shirts and cycle up pants legs to appearance they are not armed.
Around midday Saturday, several dozen cars were captivated up at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Issawiyeh neighborhood. The atmosphere was tense, with drivers honking and some adage they'd been ashore in band for added than two hours. Badge were on edge, traded blame with the crowd; at one point, they threw a amaze armament into the line.
On Sunday, troops set up six accurate slabs, anniversary about 5 meters (16 feet) tall, amid the Jewish adjacency of Armon Hanatziv and the adjoining Arab breadth of Jabal Mukaber, home to some contempo attackers. Badge said the barrier is meant as a absorber adjoin stones and firebombs.
In the past, agnate obstacles billed as acting accept become permanent.
The Qalandiya checkpoint amid the West Bank and east Jerusalem, one of the capital crossings through the break barrier and a common bottleneck, started out 15 years ago as a roadside accurate cube manned by a few soldiers. Today, it is a terminal with 5 lanes for pedestrians, adherent by acid wire and watch towers.
Gold, the Netanyahu adviser, played down the admeasurement of Palestinian annoyance in the city, adage it is accessible to actualize "patterns of co-existence and dialogue" already abandon has subsided.
Seidemann said Jerusalem is a binational city-limits that has remained divided, even afterwards 1967, and that Israel's latest aegis measures accept artlessly accustomed a concrete announcement to those rifts.
Israel's awkward leaders "can't possibly attending this in the eye because they are committed ideologically to a mythical, affiliated Jerusalem that does not abide in nature," he said.
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