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...words of the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, since 1967, "The Israeli government has adopted a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in all matters relating to land expropriation, planning and building." It is this discrimination which explains why the majority of land expropriated has come from Arab owners. It explains why of 38,500 housing units built in East Jerusalem, not one has been for Palestinians. It explains why such a disproportion of housing built since 1967--88 percent--has been for Jews. Since 1990 less than 5 percent of houses built...
Human-rights organizations think otherwise; they contend that the sayarot shoot first and ask questions later. B'Tselem, one such group, maintains that only about half the Palestinians killed by the sayarot are armed. In a widely publicized incident, Jamal Rashid Ghanim, 23, was playing soccer in the West Bank town of Tulkarm when four undercover soldiers rushed him and, according to eyewitnesses, shot down the unarmed man in cold blood...