(Jerusalem Post) Hillel Frisch - Since a decision in January 2012, the European Union has committed to the expansion of illegal Palestinian settlement in Area C of the West Bank in conjunction with the Palestinian Authority, disregarding the Oslo agreements. As new Israeli building dwindles into insignificance in areas east of Jerusalem, the PA with the help of the EU have succeeded in housing tens of thousands of Palestinians in parts of Area C near Jerusalem (some estimates say 120,000). Hundreds of 6-10 story illegal apartment buildings were built in a space of nine square km. Jamil Sanduqa, head of the local council of Ras al-Khamis, acknowledges these neighborhoods are an ecological disaster. The writer is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
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