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    Palestine News Network, Palestine
    May 9 2005


    Confiscated Orient House documents prove land-grab intentions
    Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Jerusalem

    Israeli sources confirm that the occupation authorities made plans to
    Judaize the city of Jerusalem after confiscating documents from the
    Orient House of Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities closed the Orient
    House, which dealt with Palestinian affairs in occupied Jerusalem, in
    2001. Head of Orient House, Faisal Al Huseini, was in charge of the
    Jerusalem file for the PLO.

    The sources said that the confiscated files contained a complete
    survey of Palestinian lands and houses in East Jerusalem, and areas
    under threat of sale to Jewish and Israeli organizations. Sources
    confirmed that according to those files Israeli settler companies try
    to buy the maximum amount of properties in the city, as became more
    apparent with the latest land sale scandal by the Greek Orthodox
    Patriarch.

    The Israeli Minister of Internal Security closed the Orient House for
    being considered a political institution of the Palestinian Authority
    in East Jerusalem. The Israelis said the organization was a sign that
    would permit East Jerusalem to be declared the capital of the future
    Palestinian state.

    The Old City of Jerusalem is inhabited by 32,000 Palestinians.
    Israeli Jews number at 4,000 living in the Jewish Quarter and in
    houses scattered throughout the Christian, Muslim and Armenian
    quarters. Even Israeli PM Sharon bought a house there from which he
    drapes an Israeli flag. Outside the Old City live 230,000 Israeli
    Jews, which is approximately the same number of Palestinians in the
    city.

    http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/may/week2/090505/9mayalquds.htm
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