60,000 eastern Jerusalemites

placing about 60,000 eastern Jerusalemites in the Kafr Aqab, Shuafat, Semiramis, Zughayer, and Atarot neighborhoods under PA rule, the response was predictable: outrage, followed by plans to move into Israel. The city councilor for eastern Jerusalem argued, in a reporter’s paraphrase, that “any change in Jerusalem’s borders would produce a mass immigration of Israeli residents living east of the fence back into Jerusalem in order to keep their residency and rights.” A 2011 survey of eastern Jerusalemites conducted by David Pollock of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy asked if the city were divided into Israeli ufabet