- Nadav Shraga 
Area E-1 is part of Maale Adumim Israeli town adjacent to Jerusalem. This area has been designed to link Maale Adumim and its 36,000 inhabitants in the capital. Every prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin to date have supported this plan. The said zone an area of 12 hectares and is largely uninhabited lands belong to the state. Israel remains concerned that the noose is tightening around the Palestinian construction. It threatens East Jerusalem. These constructs wild block development the city to the east, and undermines Israel's control over the Jerusalem-Jericho road. This main artery is of strategic importance, it helps in times of war, transporting troops and military equipment to the east and north of the country using the road to the Jordan Valley.
Contrary to some claims, the project E-1 fails to cut the West Bank in half and will not violate the Palestinian contiguity. Israel has planned a new route will allow the free movement of Palestinians from the south and would connect the northern cities. This bypass would reduce the transit time for drivers Palestinian travelers do not encounter more roadblocks.
Construction Israeli and Palestinian West Bank was governed by the legal terms of the Oslo II Interim Agreement of September 28, 1995. Area E-1 is located in Area C, that is to say under the control of the Israeli planning and urbanization. Therefore, on the ground, much of the Palestinian construction completed recently is illegal. Yet the Oslo agreements do not prevent Israeli settlements, but in recent years, Israel has preferred to undertake unilateral restrictions in this area.
In the development zone E-1, it is planned to build 3,500 units of housing, shopping area and a hotel. This plan has become a subject of international controversy and the U.S. support the Palestinian position and seek to freeze Israeli construction in expectation of a final peace agreement.
There is a consensus on Israel needs to link Maale Adumim to Jerusalem by the development of Area E-1.
13 years have elapsed since the preparation of this plan and in the meantime Bedouin tribes have established a thriving illegal Palestinian construction which reduced the available area of the zone, a corridor within a kilometer wide.
To consolidate the status of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, all Israeli governments, both right and left, built around the city neighborhoods and bedroom communities: Maale Adumim to the east, Givat Zeev in the north, south Efrat located in the Etzion bloc south west and Beitar Jerusalem. Israel considers these satellite towns as part of metropolitan Jerusalem. All Israeli governments have designed these
settlement blocs, relatively close to the "green line", to save them and attach them one day, as part of a permanent peace agreement.
On April 13, 2004, former U.S. President, George W. Bush sent a letter about this to the Prime Minister at the time, Ariel Sharon. In the letter, Bush reiterated the U.S. position that any arrangement for Israeli-Palestinian final status should take into consideration the demographic reality that was created on the ground since the Six Day War. It states that it must be taken into account that Israel will fully withdraw from all West Bank areas.
Likewise, the security barrier that separates the West Bank has been drawn on the basis of the principle of integration of the main settlement blocs in Israeli territory. The Israeli Supreme Court of Justice affirmed this principle.
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