Summary
Author of Chapter 3 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, “The Forgotten Palestinians: East Jerusalem and the Oslo Peace Process” (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.99).
Details
-
The chapter explores how the Oslo Accords failed to lay the groundwork for East Jerusalem to become the future capital of the State of Palestine, and how Israel consolidated its control over the eastern side of Jerusalem, in support of its goal of keeping the entire city as its unified capital and Judaizing it, in violation of international law (PDF p.99).
-
Since 1991 Israel has effectively severed East Jerusalem from the West Bank, for which it was formerly a central hub (PDF p.99).
-
The completed chapter (PDF p.100-120) covers East Jerusalem since 1967 — de facto annexation, permanent residency and the “Center of life” revocations, the closure and the Separation wall, legal entrenchments against any division, mixed families and family unification, and the political limbo of residents who are, in her summary, effectively stateless — and concludes with proactive protection of land, property and residents, and with East Jerusalemites as morabitoun (here to stay).
-
She argues the Palestinian Authority and PLO failed to sustain Jerusalemites’ presence regardless of Oslo’s limitations, leaving residents feeling abandoned to civil-society NGOs (PDF p.114).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Oslo Accords, Judaization