Since 1967, Israel has created a "Greater" Jerusalem which controls the entire central portion of the West Bank and cuts the economic heart out of Palestinian state. While constructing 90,000 housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, the municipality has intentionally created a shortage of 25,000 housing units for Palestinians. The goal is three-fold: (1) the blatantly racist objective of maintaining a 72%-28% majority of Jews over Arabs; (2) to confine the Palestinian population to small islands ? the Arabs make up a third of the Jerusalem population, but only have access to 7% of the urban land; and (3) to ultimately force them out of the city.

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