Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: costruzioni abusive a Gerusalemme

http://www.jcpa.org/jlmbldg.htm
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem
Justus Reid Weiner
NGOs assert that Arab Jerusalemites have no choice but to build their
homes illegally since the municipality systematically rejects their
applications for building permits. Then they must contend with
municipal inspectors who send bulldozers to demolish their homes.
Human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, a scholar-in-residence at the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, has just completed the first
systematic study of illegal construction in Jerusalem. Based on scores
of interviews from across the political spectrum - from Mayor Olmert
to Sari Nusseibeh, original documents, and on-site inspections,
Weiner's heavily illustrated new book discredits the conventional
wisdom about the causes and effects of illegal building, and documents
a pattern of politically-motivated behavior and criminal profiteering
that characterizes much of the construction in the Arab sector of the
Holy City.
In the Jewish neighborhoods, illegal construction typically takes the
form of additions to existing legal structures - such as closing a
balcony or hollowing out under a building to create an extra room. In
the Arab sector, however, illegal construction often takes the form of
entire multi-floor buildings with 4 to 25 living units, built with the
financial assistance of the Palestinian Authority on land that is not
owned by the builder.
    * Illegal construction has reached epidemic proportions. A senior
Palestinian official boasted that they have built 6,000 homes without
permits during the last 4 years, of which less than 200 were
demolished by the city.
    * This frantic pace of illegal construction continues despite the
fact that the city has authorized more than 36,000 permits for new
housing units in the Arab sector, more than enough to meet the needs
of Arab residents through legal construction until 2020.
    * Arab residents who wish to build legally may consult urban plans
translated into Arabic for their convenience and receive individual
assistance from Arabic-speaking city employees.
    * Both Arabs and Jews typically wait 4-6 weeks for permit
approval, enjoy a similar rate of application approvals, and pay an
identical fee ($3,600) for water and sewage hook-ups on the same size
living unit.
    * The same procedures for administrative demolition orders apply
to both Jews and Arabs in all parts of the city, as a final backstop
to remove structures built illegally on roadbeds or land designated
for schools, clinics, and the like.
    * The Palestinian Authority and Arab governments have spent
hundreds of millions of dollars in an intentional campaign to
subsidize and encourage massive illegal construction in the Arab
sector, seeing this as part of their "demographic war" against Israel.
    * Many large, multi-story, luxury structures have been built by
criminals on land they do not own, frequently land belonging to
Palestinian Christians living abroad.
    * This epidemic of illegal construction is similar to illegal
building that troubles cities in scores of countries worldwide and
where the authorities utilize the law to demolish the structures.
    * More than any single factor, the 35-year-long boycott of
municipal politics by the Palestinian leadership has resulted in the
continued imbalance in municipal services in Arab neighborhoods vis-a-
vis Jewish neighborhoods.
    * Despite frequent accusations that the city's planning policy
seeks to "Judaize" Jerusalem, the Arab population of the city has
increased since 1967 from 27% to 32%. Moreover, since 1967 new Arab
construction has outpaced Jewish construction.

 increased since 1967 from 27% to 32%.
sono già il 34%, ma vediamo un pò altre notizie interessanti,per
questo tuo post:
(AFP agency)
"The number of Arabs living in Jerusalem grew twice as fast as the
city's Jewish population over the past decade, according to a report
by an Israeli research institute.
At current growth rates, Jews will comprise 60 percent of the holy
city's population by 2020 compared with 66 percent now, according to
projections by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.
It said the Arab population would rise from 34 percent to 40 percent
over the same period.
[..]
Over the past 40 years the Arab population has grown by 257 percent
from 68,000 to its current level of 245,000, while the number of Jews
living in the city has risen by 140 percent -- from 200,000 to
475,000.
[..]"
Ci sono circa 30 anni per promuovere politiche demografiche nuove
<g> :
"The Arab birth rate for the past decade has been between three
percent and four percent, more than double that of Jews. If this trend
continues Arabs will make up 50 percent of the population by 2035, the
report said."
molto interessante questo punto, come lo commenteresti?
"Jerusalem's demographic evolution has been altered by the departure
of thousands of Jewish families from the city itself to the outskirts
and nearby settlements in the occupied West Bank, where living costs
are cheaper. "

 Per i resort basta uscire fuori Gerusalemme
mah, non direi. A giudicare dal numero di cantieri aperti pare che i
resort verranno costruiti al posto di vecchi edifici, che
appartenevano in larga parte al governo e sono stati venduti durante
le privatizzazioni di Netanyahu. In Francia ed in USA ci sono molte
persone che spenderebbero una follia per un appartamento a due passi
dalla città vecchia; se poi l'appartamento è in un complesso che ha
pure sinagoga, bagni rituali, palestre e piscina. Il boom immobiliare,
questo lo sanno in pochi, beneficia anche famiglie di notabili
palestinesi, che possiedono non pochi terreni; chiese cristiane
(soprattutto ortodosse) che idem, e -ma guarda che strano- pure degli
sceicchi del golfo, che operano con prestanomi russi (in un caso,
dicono, pure Berlusconi). Nei cantieri vedo anche macchinari e
materiali italiani, pure di una coop emiliana.
 Finché il boom edilizio prosegue, c'è lavoro per tutti, arabi
inclusi. Il che IMHO non è male, ne escono soldi anche per opere
pubbliche - come la metropolitana leggera. No, davvero questa città
non sembra sull'orlo di una divisione (e pazienza per chi la prenderà
male).

 materiali italiani, pure di una coop emiliana.
nahum fa l'umarell...(per spiegazioni del termine, vedi 
http://umarells.splinder.com/
)
ROTFL