Mandate for Palestine, July 24 1922 After the War of Independence Legal Rights Under Under Jordanian Rule International Law Under Egyptian Rule IRAQ Professor, Judge Stephen British Mandate M. Schwebel, former President of the International Court of Justice in the Hague: “State [Israel] acting in lawful exercise of its ARABIA right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense... Where the prior holder [Jordan] of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense, [Israel] has, against that prior holder, better title… including the whole of Jerusalem, than do Jordan and Egypt.” Demographic Table of Jerusalem 1844-2015 Challenges Facing Jerusalem Percentage of Arabs to Total Demographic • Today 40% of population is Arab and increasing Year Jews Muslims Christians Total Population • Mass illegal construction in Arab neighborhoods • Jewish population rapidly decreasing 1844 7,120 5,000 3,390 15,510 54% - Unaffordable housing - Lack of employment opportunities 1922 33,971 13,411 4,699 52,081 35%
1948 100,000 40,000 25,000 165,000 39% Security • Over 4,000 terror attacks or attempted attacks since 2014 1967 195,700 54,963 12,646 263,309 26% • 40% emanating from Jerusalem neighborhoods on other side of security barrier 2000 448,000 193,900 14,800 656,700 32%
2015 546,560 307,140 12,000 865,700 38% Urban • Urban expansion severely restricted under current municipal borders and due to mass illegal Arab 2030 If Current Demographic Trends Continue 50% construction
Implications of a Divided Jerusalem Gaza Strip inside Jerusalem Jerusalem Shield Program
Geo- An Israeli withdrawal would strangle Creating Arab continuity from Ramallah to Bethlehem Demographic graphically the city and stifle urban development. Ramallah • Increasing of Jewish It would create a Gaza strip like reality majority from 60/40 to 85/15 in the areas vacated, giving them a territorial continuum from Ramallah Security to Bethlehem through the heart of • Block Palestinian territorial Jerusalem. continuum in eastern Jerusalem • Law & Order in dense hostile Demo- Jewish negative immigration would neighborhoods graphically increase as it had when the city was divided in 1949. Arabs would move to Urban Jewish neighborhoods to stay in Israel. • Expansion of municipal borders and creation of Greater Jerusalem Security A withdrawal would create a void umbrella municipality which would quickly be filled by Islamic • Current Arab neighborhoods terror forces, putting them at extreme outside security barrier would proximity to Jewish neighborhoods - become independent Israeli while Israel’s ability to respond would municipalities be limited Keep updated and Holy Sites Division would also leave the holy sites informed or to donate: at the mercy of Islamic extremists, [email protected] jeopardize freedom of access, and www.keepjerusalem.org embolden Jihadists worldwide. Bethlehem New borders of Jerusalem drawn and Israeli law applied after Jerusalem Geopolitical Map the 6 Day War. After 1967 and Current Eastern Jerusalem - area between the black and green lines Jewish population in eastern Jerusalem 220,000. Arab population in eastern Jerusalem 320,000.
RAMALLAH
Kochav Ya'akov Kfar Akab To Modiin ← Road 443 Atarot Airport Checkpoint Giv'at Ze'ev Judeira A-Ram Beit 'Anan New El Jib Givon Givon Atarot Dahiyat el Barid Bir Nabala Adam
Highway 60 Neve Kubeiba Beit Ya'akov Tomb of Shmuel Hanina the Prophet Hizma Bidu Har Katna Shmuel Anatot
Har Pisgat Adar Beit Beit Tel-el Ful Ze'ev Surik Iksa Hussein's Palace Ramot Shuafat Shuafat Ramat Refugee Shlomo Camp Anata
Mevaseret Highway 1 French Hill To Zion Ramat Eshkol Isawiya ← Tel Aviv Hebrew E-1 Ammunition University Mt. Scopus Strings bridge Hill Arzei Habira Az-Zayim Sheikh Jarah Me'a Augusta She'arim Shimon HaTsadik A-Tur Victoria Har Hamenuchot Old Wadi Joze Cemetery City City Center Eizariya Ma'ale Hadassa Begin Boulevard Mt. of Adumim Ein Kerem Olives Church of Hospital Silwan Ascention Abu-Tor Abu Jabel Dis West Mukaber Kedar Jerusalem Haas Promenade East U.S. Talpiyot Embassy Beit Safafa Observation point Givat Hamatos Sur Separation fence Bahir East Gilo Planned fence Umm Tuba Walajeh Jerusalem Municipal border 1949-1967 Har Gilo Har Municipal border since 1967 Homa Roads Jewish population in Eastern Jerusalem Beit Jala Rachel's Tomb Jewish population in Western Jerusalem Beitar Ilit BETHLEHEM Planned neighborhood Arab Population Gush Etzion East Jerusalem Jewish Arab Neighborhood