Judaization of “Unified Jerusalem”: Where has it arrived?

The Israeli efforts to tighten the security grip and Judaize the occupied city of Jerusalem, especially “East Jerusalem,” did not stop for a single day. And here is the Israeli government, claiming to develop buildings and infrastructure in the Holy City, unanimously approving its new plan, which aims, according to observers, to take full control of the city and work to “Israelize education,” implement programs to “brainwash” students and youth, and build colonial housing units. / “settlement” annually, changing the entire Arab and Islamic face of Jerusalem. This plan has two effects: immediate and future. The first includes making a change in the features of the city, such as demolishing homes and confiscating lands, under the pretext that these measures are for the benefit of Jerusalemites, while the future impact is the impact on the education and culture sector in the long term, that is, “Israelization of education,” in order to support the Israeli narrative through teaching Israeli curricula. Which makes Israel acceptable in the region and a natural part of it.

It is established that the new plan is in fact nothing but a continuation of previous plans announced by successive occupation governments. The Judaization project has not stopped since the first day of the occupation of “Zahrat al-Mada’in.” However, it seems that the occupation authorities, on the basis of “putting poison in honey,” after realizing the racist neglect practiced against the East Jerusalem area due to the lack of budgets allocated to it, and in an attempt, perhaps perhaps, to raise the standard of living of its residents in order to neutralize them from the resistance, hastened and approved Transferring large sums of money under the pretext of developing East Jerusalem and making it like West Jerusalem. Here lies the greatest danger of “Israelizing the Jerusalemite consciousness and mind,” focusing on teaching Hebrew, integrating students, and considering Hebrew the first language in Jerusalem, as well as linking the Jerusalemite economy to complete subordination to the Israeli economy.

On the other hand, the Israeli government is preparing to approve a new “settlement” plan under the name “New Talpiot” south of the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. According to the “Ir Amim” Association, the leftist Israeli association specializing in Jerusalem affairs, the plan aims to “besiege the towns of Beit Safafa, Umm Tuba, and Sur Baher and flood them with colonialists/settlers, which is the area separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem.” According to observers, “The borders of the Talpiot plan extend to the existing settlements within the towns of southern Jerusalem, to connect them to those perched on the lands of residents residing in its eastern side, to form a settlement belt that surrounds the Jerusalem towns in the targeted area.”

The Israeli plans targeting “Zahrat al-Mada’in” today are larger than their previous counterparts, which means the Israeli desire to resolve the conflict over the Judaization and Israelization of Jerusalem. It is certain that the success of the occupation’s Judaizing plans in the medium and long term will impose a fait accompli in Jerusalem that will transform it like the mixed cities in occupied Palestine 1948. In this context, the Israeli Prime Minister and his extremist government, led by the extremist Finance Minister (Bezalel Smotrich), do not hide their “endeavor.” The Judaization of Jerusalem through forced migration is a continuation of the war on the identity of the Holy City, the Arab presence, and Islamic and Christian sanctities. So what are we doing as Arabs and Muslims to protect Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites?!! A question we have always asked, and others as well, but it remains unanswered!!!