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Settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon and religion reporter Rossella Tercatin join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
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On Sunday, the cabinet approved the opening of a new land registration process for Area C in the West Bank, some 60 percent of the territory, which it and critics said would enable the state to declare large swaths of land in the territory as available for public development, meaning the creation and expansion of settlements and settlement infrastructure.
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Sharon weighs in on the trend of increasing Israeli civilian control of the territory, or de facto annexation, and Tercatin brings the example of legislation that would give the State of Israel control of archaeological sites in territory currently administered by the Palestinian Authority.
Yesterday, for the first time in three years, representatives of the state and the Jerusalem municipality explained to the High Court why there is a delay in implementing a 2016 government-mandated upgrade to the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall and restoring its direct access to the wall itself.
Tercatin updates us on the ongoing saga and Sharon weighs in with the potential legal outcomes.
We finish the program with a new reading of the New Testament’s cleansing of the Temple, which brings out Jesus’s more human aspects.
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For further reading:
Cabinet OKs new West Bank land registration process, critics decry ‘de-facto annexation’
Local and state government trade blame over delays upgrading Western Wall egalitarian plaza
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