Word: yaacov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week announced that it would expropriate 1,000 acres of land-68% of it owned by Arabs-in East Jerusalem. The expropriation plan calls for the construction of 10,000 housing units for Jewish citizens on the confiscated land. The residential complex will link two existing settlements-Neve Yaacov and French Hill-and thus complete the encirclement of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem with Jewish suburbs. At least in spirit, the seizure violated a Cabinet decision last October that privately owned Arab land in the occupied territories would not be taken for Jewish settlements...