Netanyahu Announces New Homes in East Jerusalem, Days Before Election

"Aviv Tatarsky of Ir Amim, a group advocating an equitable arrangement between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem, said that creating Israeli contiguity in the city and cutting the Palestinian neighborhoods off from the West Bank was the goal of Har Homa and Givat Hamatos in the first place.Thursday’s declaration, he said, was “one of the first manifestations of how destructive” the Trump administration’s plan was."