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shira

(30,109 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 06:29 PM Dec 2014

Leave or let live? Arabs move in to Jewish settlements

(Reuters) - Little noticed amid the furor over one of Israel's most contentious policies, a small but growing number of Arabs are moving into Jewish settlements on occupied land in East Jerusalem, drawn by cheaper rent and better services.

For decades, Israel has encouraged Jews to settle in East Jerusalem, changing the population balance, provoking Palestinian anger and drawing international condemnation.

But in one such settlement, around Mount Scopus where the Hebrew University is based and many Palestinians study, about 16 percent of residents are either Arab citizens of Israel or Palestinians, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics....

...http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/07/us-israel-palestinians-settlements-idUSKBN0JL0D620141207
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Leave or let live? Arabs move in to Jewish settlements (Original Post) shira Dec 2014 OP
They are not really Jewish settlements then, are they? oberliner Dec 2014 #1
 

oberliner

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1. They are not really Jewish settlements then, are they?
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 06:37 PM
Dec 2014

Shouldn't Reuters call them Israeli settlements, rather than Jewish settlements?

Their own reporting contradicts the use of the term.

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