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A guide to the perplexed:
1. This plan has been around since 2007. Every few years rears its ugly head, only to disappear for another few years.
2. The obstacles to implementation are almost insurmountable but under Trump & Netanyahu, the unthinkable is commonplace.
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A guide to the perplexed:
1. This plan has been around since 2007. Every few years rears its ugly head, only to disappear for another few years.
2. The obstacles to implementation are almost insurmountable but under Trump & Netanyahu, the unthinkable is commonplace.
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3. The plan keeps being ressurrected because it is the darling of the ultra-Orthodox. The land reserves in Jerusalem have been pretty mmuch exhausted, and the haredim are leaving for Beit Shemesh and the settlements of Beitar and Modi'in Illit.
They are pushing.
3. The plan keeps being ressurrected because it is the darling of the ultra-Orthodox. The land reserves in Jerusalem have been pretty mmuch exhausted, and the haredim are leaving for Beit Shemesh and the settlements of Beitar and Modi'in Illit.
They are pushing.
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44. There is even talk of a surrealistic plan to build a tunnel under the Qalandia Refugee Camp, linking the planned Atarot settlement with the exisiting West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaacov.
44. There is even talk of a surrealistic plan to build a tunnel under the Qalandia Refugee Camp, linking the planned Atarot settlement with the exisiting West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaacov.
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5. The fact that the planned settlement contradicts the Trump plan's designation as a Special Tourist Area for Palestinians is no problem at all: both Netanyahu and Trump secretly have silent contempt for the plan, exceeded only by their open contempt for the Palestinians.
5. The fact that the planned settlement contradicts the Trump plan's designation as a Special Tourist Area for Palestinians is no problem at all: both Netanyahu and Trump secretly have silent contempt for the plan, exceeded only by their open contempt for the Palestinians.
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6. What is this REALLY all about? Elections. Courting the ultra-Orthodox, there is no rabbit that Netanyahu will not pull out of his sleeve before elections, even if the rabbit turns out to be a dead squirrel.
6. What is this REALLY all about? Elections. Courting the ultra-Orthodox, there is no rabbit that Netanyahu will not pull out of his sleeve before elections, even if the rabbit turns out to be a dead squirrel.
