ABSTRACT
As illustrated in the previous chapter, since 1967 (and, to a much greater extent, since the 1970s), the Israeli authorities have poured huge amounts of money and energy into consolidating the annexation of East Jerusalem. Tens of thousands of housing units for Jewish people have been built in the eastern part of the city, with the aim of securing political control over the occupied territories through spatial domination. As maintained by Shlay and Rosen (2015), “although the term ‘unification’ was used to describe the post1967 housing developments in East Jerusalem, the goal was in essence to take over. Israel intended to make Arab Jerusalem Israeli” (pp. 59-60).
