Zionist Union MK slams East Jerusalem construction plan

5 June 2016, 3:55 pm

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Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai warns that the planned construction of a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem will lead to international condemnation.

Shai, who heads the Jerusalem lobby in the Knesset, says that the Israeli government “has managed as usual to mar a festival day, this time with a construction plan that only serves to stir international opposition and exacerbate the dispute over Jerusalem, and will ultimately not come to fruition.”

The Ir Amim organization, which is also opposed to the planned neighborhood, says, “It is a shame that instead of genuine plans to boost equality and reduce tensions in the city, they are trying to sell the public controversial construction plans whose implementation is in doubt.”