The Dire Ramifications of Implementing Netanyahu’s Declaration on Unrestricted Construction

One of the anticipated outcomes of the attitude emanating from President Trump’s White House concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a loosening of the reins which held back to some degree unbridled promotion of East Jerusalem building plans. In this spirit, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared on January 22 that he intends to remove the political limitations on promoting building plans in the city. During President Obama’s administration, Israel promoted building plans on a very large scale, although since failure of the Kerry peace talks (2013-2014) there has been a significant slowdown in approval of building plans and publishing tenders, together with carrying out large-scale construction in numerous areas through previously approved plans.