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Jerusalem – Between the Defensive Barrier and a Settlement or an "Historical Basin" and an "Outlying Neighbourhood"
Senat# 329 - 22/11/2007
The new borders of Jerusalem, established after the Six Day War, were meant to further the Israeli capital''s political and defensive prospects given any settlement with Jordan more than to emphasize its new or historical municipal boundaries, established prior to the city's imposed division in 1948. Defensible territory, enhancement of Jewish demographic superiority by attaching open spaces for the construction of new Jewish neighbourhoods, a municipal airport, a Jewish cemetery, the economic isolation of Jerusalem from the West Bank and land ownership were the main considerations that motivated Israel's government to approve, only 17 days after the war, the proposal forwarded by the Special Commission to extend Jerusalem's jurisdiction by 70,000 dunams (1 dunam=1,000 sq.m.) in the direction of the West Bank.
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