Netanyahu and Barkat’s ‘Jerusalem Disengagement’ – by 2030?

Councilman Arieh King exposes ‘de facto division’ of the capital, with all the figures behind his prediction of an Arab majority by 2030.

By Ari Yashar and Tamar Yonah

KingJerusalem Councilman Arieh King spoke to Arutz Sheva on Sunday, revealing the governmental policies from the highest echelons down to the grittiest building and population figures that lead him to reach one shocking conclusion: by 2030, Jerusalem will be an Arab capital.

King began by discussing the Sunday morning rock attack on a bus filled with 65 children making their way to school from Ma’aleh Hazeitim, a Jewish neighborhood on the Mount of Olives where King lives. He revealed that the attack by Arab terrorists is in fact a routine for Jews in the neighborhood, happening three times last week and dozens of times last month at the same exact spot. “The question is: where are the Israeli police?” asked King rhetorically. The councilman answered his own question, noting there is “no doubt that the problem is from the top, from the government.”

“For six years (Prime Minister Binyamin) Netanyahu has been trying de facto – by putting facts on the ground in eastern Jerusalem – to divide the city,” charged King, noting how the terror is only the tip of the iceberg. The councilman lists how since taking office, Netanyahu forbade Jews from entering eight Jerusalem neighborhoods including Kalandia, allowed the Palestinian Authority (PA) to build schools in Jerusalem, and let the PA “pave four kilometers of road in Jerusalem” with US financial aid. At the same time Netanyahu is instituting a Jewish building freeze and forbidding police from escorting Jerusalem building inspectors in eastern Jerusalem, revealed King, allowing local Arab residents to turn it into the “wild west” in terms of rampant building abuses. “Bibi is doing what Arik Sharon did in Gush Katif,” said King, using Netanyahu’s and former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s nicknames. He elaborated that Netanyahu is doing as Sharon, who “didn’t talk or negotiate – he just did.”

Partners in crime

According to King, Netanyahu is accompanied in his efforts by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who “is allowing Arabs to build in tremendous numbers that we never saw in Jerusalem, with no way of comparison to the days of (former Mayors Ehud) Olmert and even Teddy Kollek.”

King recently ran afoul of Barkat when he petitioned the Jerusalem District Court over Barkat’s plan to build 2,500 Arab housing units in Al-Sawahira Al-Gharbiyya – in response, Barkat dismissed King from his coalition posts.

As King notes, the neighborhood is sensitively located in the Kidron Valley between the Old City and the East Talpiyot neighborhood, and already today has 3,000 illegal Arab housing units.
With the new project there will be a whopping 5,500 new units in the neighborhood, greatly increasing the number of Arab residents even as Netanyahu freezes Jewish building amid a housing crisis.

That availability of housing is directly intertwined with the demographics of the capital city, particularly in the eastern part of the city which is home to around 200,000 Jews and 230,000 Arabs.

King notes that currently over 37% of Jerusalem’s population is Arab, whereas just ten years ago it was only 30%. “Al Quds” by 2030. Barkat, under Netanyahu’s policy of not having inspectors accompanied by police, has let illegal Arab building run rampant, charges King – and he has the numbers to back up his words. There are currently 40,000 illegal Arab housing units in eastern Jerusalem; during the first 10 months of 2014 the Municipality has demolished a paltry 14 illegal housing units, reports King.

“If you are today an Arab and you are building legally, you probably are a totally stupid, idiotic person, because the chances for your house to be destroyed is less than 0.1%,” comments the councilman. “More Arabs are getting permits to build than Jews, and this is beside the extra bonus of illegal apartments that they are building – about 700 to 800 apartments built illegally every year,” adds King.
King offers a sobering prediction: “I’m seeing 2030 as a year when the Arabs will have the same numbers as Jews in Jerusalem…if the policy continues as it is.” And as he makes clear, it is “all because of Barkat and Netanyahu.”  However, the councilman feels certain that things will change in the Municipality well before then, appraising that Barkat will be forced to leave the mayoral post in a year or two before his term ends. At that point King hopes a right-wing mayor will be voted in, and if no other such candidates step forward, he will throw his own name into the ring for the post.

International pressure?

When asked whether Netanyahu and Barkat’s policies of “splitting Jerusalem” might not be due to international pressure, King dismisses the excuses, saying “it’s a decision that they made.” King notes that Barkat was the head of the leftist party Kadima in Jerusalem, and never joined a right-wing party later on. However, he knew that to be re-elected he needed to present himself as right-wing, argues King. Kadima was in fact formed by Ariel Sharon after he split from the Likud in order to carry out the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, and its party platform supports the policy of “unilateral disengagement”.

As for Netanyahu, “already six years ago (he) decided that we need to withdraw from some neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, maybe all the neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Nobody is forcing them, its a decision that they made.” Backing up his appraisal, King notes that in recent years no new neighborhoods have been established in Jerusalem. Any recent neighborhoods, like Ma’ale Hazeitim or Shimon Hatzadik, “happened because of private people, …(but) no new area has been planned by the Municipality or the government in eastern Jerusalem.”

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  1. @ honeybee:

    Pepe Le Pew is a romantic, I case you need to learn my language:

    Thanks for the translation honeybee!
    I knew that there must have been something wrong with the first tape….
    🙂 🙂 🙂

    Btw did you like the song? (Yerushalaim)

  8. @ honeybee:

    Ever see anyone normal coming out of Southern Ca? I never met her just exchanges of emails and posts.

    Her older sisters were closer to me, and Joy was married 3 times and ayn none as far as I know. All had big hearts very giving and IQ’s that would match Einsteins. Only connected with the sisters after ayn was killed.

    For me it will always remain that what if question, at least when I allow myself to think about it which I don’t often. I was just cleaning out old saved emails from my hardisk and started reading and remembering.

    Here’s one:
    ayn reagan says:
    December 23, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    I’d rather have the Cherokees come back to Judaism than these scum. (Liberal Jews)

    Rita Coolidge is Cherokee.

    I can almost hear her singing ?Cherokee Morning Song?:

    ?We n? de ya ho, We n? de ya ho,
    We n? de ya, We n? de ya Ho ho ho ho,
    He ya ho, He ya ho, Ya ya ya.?

  12. @ the phoenix:

    One more Phoenix and I post it because it reflects my positions exactly. What a family!

    Author: Shebrew Warrior
    Comment:
    Worrywarts.

    Glum glum glum.

    You people are much too glum. Take a step back and look at the Big Picture. Israel has such a strong economy that it is being accepted into all these international economic clubs that hate Jews because other countries want a piece of the Israeli pie. Israel has a first rate military that kicks ass whenever Israeli politicians allow it. Israel has technology research and development second to none. Now, Israel has more natural gas than it can use.

    Go fifty years back. All the threats and scary prospects. The hand-wringing. The existential foreboding. So many enemies. So much ant1-Semitism. So much reason to be pessimistic.

    How’d it turn out?

    Now project fifty years ahead. Israel will be a powerful international force, a technology juggernaut second to none. Brainpower will rule the future, and what do Jews possess in abundance (other than extraordinary physical beauty and infinite charisma)? The Arabs will still be riding camels, and the Jews will be riding skymobiles. You wait and see.

    Insofar as Iran is concerned, my crystal ball reveals gorgeous mushroom clouds billowing over Tehran.

    So stop fretting and trust Shebrew. She is never wrong. Just ask her four (or is it five) ex-husbands.

    Take her message to heart.

  17. @ yamit82:

    He has a King size bed upon which he sleeps cross wise. He like a HARD mattress, a bottom sheet only and cover which he rolls up in like a bed roll. He snores like an asthmatic Brahma Bull, kicks like a mule.

  18. @ honeybee:

    Adorable babies. My granddaughter Michal is afraid of los pedos. When i was on the Kibbutz we used to call old the old folk Los pedos. Who knew then? 🙂

  25. yamit82 Said:

    Think I know where you are coming from and why.

    Yawl are being to sound like a couple of no good cowpokes from Texas!!!!!! The French is for phoenix because he’s from Montreal.

  26. @ honeybee:
    Dear honeybee,
    Ah’ll trah to speek in yo’ vayrnawkewlar. Yawl maht understaynd me betterer.
    If yawl sit in a chicken coop, dat ain’t gonna mayke yawls a chicken!
    Aah jest happen to speak this goddamn language (pardon mah language, ma’m)
    Eeend not fer dat lawng either!
    Theyre!

  27. @ honeybee:

    Loved pepe hate the French and never identified gentleman or man to any Frenchman.

    I think this was directed to Phoenix not me.

    Think I know where you are coming from and why. 🙁

  35. @ honeybee:

    Really phoenix !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dear honeybee,
    You may have noticed that there were two parts to my “OMG”
    They were both genuine
    (Oh, brrrother, I start to sound like dweller… 🙂 )
    Anyways. First, a genuine sorrow for the passing of someone I didn’t know, and wished I did (here I go again, yamit…’. Mah she’haya haya’….)
    As far as the second part, boobs aside (ok, coming through coming through… Move over, don’t push…), she has a no nonsense, no bs style, which I like, and in a woman with her ehm , qualifications, I think it is twice (here I go again… 🙂 ) endearing.

  36. the phoenix Said:

    (And why isn’t she posting anymore? Obviously her posts are full of substance!)

    Actually I don’t know why but she is an economist and runs her own consultancy in SF area. Her husband is also a professional MD, I think ? I forget. Except for Israel she is the Liberal in her family.

    I think she’s on her 4th or 5th husband??? California!!!!

    HB and ayn have a lot in common. Don’t tell her though.

  37. yamit82 Said:

    Pechos

    Goldberg needs Spanish lessons. Mamerias, chi chis !!!!!!!!!!! Spanish is Latin with a southern accent, Chulo. Tienen pechos, los pollos y aves.

  38. honeybee Said:

    Really phoenix !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Really what????

    honeybee Said:

    The boobs are real!!!!

    If you believe that, I have an oil well to sell you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Pechos envidia ?? 😉

  39. the phoenix Said:

    And why isn’t she posting anymore? Obviously her posts are full of substance!)

    Really phoenix !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    yamit82 Said:

    The boobs are real!!!!

    If you believe that, I have an oil well to sell you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  40. @ yamit82:
    OH. MY. GOD!!!!
    Re #9….. Sigh…. I wish I knew her (cybernetically)
    Re # 10….sigh…. And let’s leave it at that.
    (And why isn’t she posting anymore? Obviously her posts are full of substance!)

  44. ayn reagan says:

    Famous Addresses
    Can you identify them?

    221-B Baker Street

    1313 Mockingbird Lane

    99 Rue de Rivoli

    1060 West Addison Street

    742 Evergreen Terrace

    Answers

    Sherlock Holmes

    The Munsters

    The Louvre

    Wrigley Field

    The Simpsons

  45. Ted Belman Said:

    King: “Mayor Nir Barkat Fired Me for Doing My Job”

    I did get nostalgic reading about King being fired and Remembered this post comments reprinted here: https://www.israpundit.org/archives/22767

    ayn reagan says:

    Despite immense international pressure to halt Jewish construction in east Jerusalem and in all areas over the Green Line, Israel Land Fund founder Aryeh King on Sunday presented a plan that would see nearly 200,000 new housing units created there.

    We can always dream.

    I would love to see Israel name every new road after its critics.

    Just kind of a giant “Fuck You” presented as an ostensible homage.

    Barack Obama Highway.

    Hitlery Rotten Clinton Lane.

    Jeremy Ben-Ami Circle.

    Wait..better yet!

    Every new roadway built amongst the settlements should be named J Street.

    J Street Number One…J Street Number Two…J Street Number Three.

    They can all intersect just like in Paris, except that instead of L’Arc de Triumph the epicenter would be called Soros Plaza.

  49. Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor writes

    If you want Jerusalem to remain united, you can’t go around complaining when the City tries to improve standards for Arab neighborhoods. In fact, if you want a united city, then you should be supporting those efforts.

    In terms of his claims about a building freeze, I live near Talpiyot (in Abu Tor) and if you think there is a building freeze going on in Talpiyot, Armon HaNatizv, Har Homa, and Gilo, then you don’t have eyes. Thousands of apartments are under construction and the roads here are at the breaking point.

    Regarding illegal building, there are plenty of Jews who build illegally and nothing happens to them — I could take you on a tour and show you dozens of illegal structures, so his complaints about selectivity w/building inspectors ring hollow.

    The only thing where he has any credibility is his point about lax police enforcement. Our school just started a special counseling group for kids living in Eastern neighborhoods who have been traumatized by attacks (molotov cocktails, stones) and, Mount of Olives is essentially a no-go zone. Last Shabbat, I saw people drag racing cars in the Tayelet (a pedestrian park) last while the police looked on and did nothing. I went over to them and asked them why they were just standing there and they just shrugged their shoulders.

  50. I mean, honestly!
    What evidence has been missing pointing out to that?
    All is evident. Netanyahu is part of the Barak. Livni, Weinstein, the self elected “judges”, Peresite gangs.
    We have to be really lame to miss all the construction freezes, lies, give away to the Wakft, the Vatican, Jordan, etc, items of evidence.
    Just as Netanyahu betrayed Hebron, he betrays Jerusalem and will do as much against the rest.