ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case of Israel or Palestine, with a focus on East Jerusalem. It explores Israel's ethnocratic policies towards its non-Jewish Palestinian citizens of the State of Israel and the Palestinian residents of Occupied East Jerusalem, and the effect of these policies on their welfare. The chapter describes the notion of citizenship in the State of Israel and the criteria which define inclusion and exclusion in Israeli Jewish society. The Israeli municipality's investment strategy is made evident by the blossoming buildings and infrastructure in Israeli West Jerusalem and the deteriorating infrastructure of Palestinian East Jerusalem. There are only seven post offices in East Jerusalem, where all the residents receive their mail because postmen do not deliver to Palestinian houses, compared with fifty post offices in West Jerusalem and house delivery service. Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem are subject to social exclusion and alienation; they are stripped of their basic civil, political and social rights.
