Abe Selig 2/8/2010 JPost
Nir Barkat calls UN building halt ask "racist; illegal."

22/6/2010 Haaretz
Municipality hits back after defense minister slams scheme to demolish 22 Palestinian homes, saying it 'shows lack of common sense and poor timing'.

The Interior Ministry’s Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee on Tuesday ratified an existing plan to build 1,600 housing units in the city’s northeastern Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.

By Orly Noy, December 3, 2009, Huffington Post
These are not simply plans for routine construction in an existing urban space. Instead, they are part of a series of construction projects that are intended to form a wide swath of Jewish neighborhoods on the South Eastern parameter of metropolitan Jerusalem.

By Gershom Gorenberg, May 8, 2009, The American Prospect
The pattern of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is meant to erase the Clinton parameters for peace

By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler, April 13, 2009, IPS
A new spate of demolitions of Palestinian homes by the Israeli authorities near Jerusalem's walled Old City, plus resuscitated plans for a new major Jewish settlement building project on the outskirts of occupied East Jerusalem, threaten to spark fresh tension between Israelis and Palestinians.