East Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually Want
East Jerusalem is home to over 300,000 Palestinians who hold permanent residency in Israel — a status that is not quite citizenship and not quite a permit. This episode unpacks the legal architecture behind that status: how the 1967 boundary expansion tripled the city's size, why a 2016 citizenship approval rate of 7 out of 1,081 applications matters, and how more than 3,000 people have been left stateless by residency revocations since 1995. Then we dig into the Washington Institute's 2022 poll of East Jerusalem Palestinians, where 48% said they would prefer Israeli citizenship — up from…
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