The question would not carry much significance if the following was the only (or first) one of many DELIBERATE and planned actions by the people of Israel. And don't even try to make this as some sort of "anti-Semitic" cry here, because this question has nothing to do with Semitism.
Below is a series of partial quotes from the Independent News article:
Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, Published: 25 November 2005 -
Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel
The 11-page report, leaked to The Independent, says the E1 project for a major expansion of Ma'ale Adumim, the largest Israeli West Bank settlement, to join it to Jerusalem "threatens to complete the encircling of the city by Jewish settlements, dividing the West Bank into two separate geographical areas."
The document says when the separation barrier is completed,
Israel will "control all access to and from East Jerusalem, cutting off its Palestinian satellite cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, and the rest of the West Bank beyond. This will have serious economic, social and humanitarian consequences for the Palestinians. By vigorously applying policies on residency and ID status, Israel will be able finally to complete the isolation of East Jerusalem - the political commercial and infrastructural centre of Palestinian life."
It adds: "
Israel's activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap obligations and international law. We and others in the international community have made our concerns clear on numerous occasions with varying effect. Palestinians are, without exception, deeply alarmed about East Jerusalem. They fear that Israel will 'get away with it' under cover of disengagement [from Gaza]." The document says smaller Jewish settlements inside Palestinian areas are sometimes installed by would-be settlers "preying on Palestinians suffering financial hardship or simply [occupying] properties by force".
The reports says the purpose of keeping West Bank ID holders out of East Jerusalem and East Jerusalem ID holders out of the West Bank "is almost certainly demographic , to reduce the Palestinian population of Jerusalem while exerting efforts to boost the number of Israelis living in the city - East and West."
The ugly truth is that the Arab-Israeli "conflict" has very little to do with religion - it is nothing but a "land grab" and "resource grab" under the veil of "historical and religious" claims. And the grabbers are obvious in this case and so the only way to hide the grabbing is to cleverly make it into an "anti-Semitic" threat or noise that it isn't.
One should note the coincidence that here in the US today is the "thanksgiving day" - a sort of "celebration" of the initiation of yet another of MAJOR land and resource grabs in the known history of mankind.