Barkat says will seal Beit Yehonatan (Pollard's House)

Mayor to implement sealing orders on illegal structures built by both Jews
and Arabs in east Jerusalem

Ronen Medzini - YNET News - February 3, 2010

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3844073,00.html

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has informed State Prosecutor Moshe Lador that he
plans to implement the sealing order for Beit Yehonatan in the east
Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, which was built without a permit in 2004
and which houses Jewish residents.

However, Barkat added that he would also implement orders against illegal
structures built by Arabs in the area, so as not to act in a discriminatory
manner.

"Although the sealing order, in light of the dozens of demolition orders
which are not being enforced, constitutes, in my eyes, a selective and
discriminatory enforcement, Jerusalem Municipality will act according to
court orders and implement the sealing orders on Beit Yehonatan as well as
other standing orders," Barkat wrote to Lador.

Beit Yehonatan has been home to Jewish residents since 2007, and they
continue to live there despite the conflict surrounding them.

Barkat wrote to the state prosecutor in response to the latter's letter of
condemnation, which focuses on the mayor's refusal to enforce court orders.

"I was sorry to hear that even at such a time as this, the city of Jerusalem
has not yet made sure that court orders - in all of their forms, including
four Supreme Court orders - are honored and carried out in this affair,"
Lador wrote to Barkat.
The state prosecutor explained that Beit Yehonatan "was built from
beginning to end with total disrespect for planning and construction rules,
by those who refuse to reveal their identity and only reveal their causes -
the demonstrators who demonstrate 'presence' in the area by residing there".

The municipality's Opposition Chairman Meir Turgeman filed a police
complaint against the mayor last month for refusing to carry out court
orders and for interfering with legal proceedings. "The mayor is belittling
the law and the court," he told Ynet.

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