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East Jerusalem Arabs pay taxes, but have no running water
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: East Jerusalem, Palestinians 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for June 22, 2008.

Earlier this month, when Israel marked 41 years since the reunification of Jerusalem, residents of the eastern part of the city saw no cause for celebration.

Like most of the Arab homes in East Jerusalem, residents of the neighborhood of A-Tur are forced to live without infrastructure, paved roads and regular garbage collection.


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oughly one quarter of a million Arabs, all of whom hold Israeli identification cards, live in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after the 1967 Six-Day War. According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 130,000 of them have no running water.

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      1.   The Arabs of East Jerusalem. 09:40  |  sandra chitayat 23/06/08
      2.   Same as West Jeruslaem 10:31  |  J. Frank Mortimer 23/06/08
      3.   Arab squatters have no rights... 10:33  |  Jonathan Bensaul 23/06/08
      4.   Haaretz: go back to school 10:40  |  Peter Snodgrass 23/06/08
      5.   This time and by accident ACRI got it right 10:59  |  Genuine Tosefta 23/06/08
      6.   "130 million of them have no running water" 11:11  |  FOX 23/06/08
      7.   # 3 you`re the friggin` squatter, jonathan! 11:33  |  eric 23/06/08
      8.   # 1 to sandra in montreal 11:39  |  eric 23/06/08
      9.   An Arab Originally from East Jerusalem 11:44  |  Issa Zananiri 23/06/08
      10.   Uri Lupolianski is a great ethnologist 11:45  |  David 23/06/08
      11.   Haartez is right 12:01  |  Ali 23/06/08
      12.   The schmendrick in NM is the original squatter 12:09  |  Genuine Tosefta 23/06/08
      13.   Full Arnona? 12:37  |  miron 23/06/08
      14.   The ususal Haaretz - biased half-story 13:48  |  Boris 23/06/08
      15.   Arabs pay all the expenses for the municipality 13:59  |  George 23/06/08
      16.   #7 Eric 14:59  |  John Allen 23/06/08
      17.   How can they raise their children in such an enviornment? 15:00  |  What do they tell 23/06/08
      18.   12 Genuine Tosefta 15:01  |  Mark of Lewiston 23/06/08
      19.   Better deal in Syria, or Saudi, or Jordan etc 17:05  |  Harvey (Chaim) 23/06/08
      20.   Funny, I thought I was reading Al-Jezeera News 17:07  |  Harvey (Chaim) 23/06/08
      21.   harvey 17:28  |  marah 23/06/08
      22.   JERUSLAEM most urgently embetter the living conditions 18:05  |  AliciaYasmeen 23/06/08
      23.   Jerusalem was always Jewish, except when the racists threw us out 18:19  |  x-ray 23/06/08
      24.   More racism 18:56  |  Janice 23/06/08
      25.   The Jerusalem Mayor is an idiot 19:00  |  janice 23/06/08
      26.   #3 Jonathan 19:06  |  Janice 23/06/08
      27.   X-ray you show your ignorance 19:15  |  Janice 23/06/08
      28.   Marah 19:18  |  Harvey (Chaim) 23/06/08
      29.   To # 20: to read Al Jazeera, you need to be open minded 19:24  |  Sam 23/06/08
      30.   Haaretz you made a typo 19:36  |  Janice 23/06/08
      31.   That`s why Israel is compared to apartheid 19:54  |  anti-racist 23/06/08
      32.   water for arabs 19:54  |  Simon Motola 23/06/08
      33.   arabs destroy the temple mount and surrounding hills 20:14  |  z 23/06/08
      34.   Where is Margie in TA ex SA 21:57  |  Labhras 23/06/08
      35.   #5 G. Tosefta 22:03  |  Beitcafe 23/06/08
      36.   Jerusalem of Gold .... 22:10  |  Cynic #2 23/06/08
      37.   Imagine treating the jews of Paris like this? 22:22  |  French 23/06/08
      38.   Th Light unto nations grows dimmer as does 22:22  |  Labhras 23/06/08
      39.   Janice an Israel basher 23:20  |  x-ray 23/06/08
      40.   They refuse to be hooked up to the pipes 23:28  |  Slappy 23/06/08
      41.   #37 French 00:11  |  Janice 24/06/08
      42.   Labhras 00:13  |  Beitcafe 24/06/08
      43.   TAXES for what ? 00:14  |  Andrea 24/06/08
      44.   Dont want to believe, Harvey? 00:17  |  SD 24/06/08
      45.   # 16 to john allen in KS 00:18  |  eric 24/06/08
      46.   Another thought... 01:07  |  Beitcafe 24/06/08
      47.   Wow, Western dummies fall for anything! 01:31  |  Scharker Yid 24/06/08
      48.   Racist Zionist State Refuses to Issue Permits to Non-Jews 04:24  |  Johan Odin 24/06/08
      49.   It`s hard to judge the truth without more information 05:18  |  Doc Holliday 24/06/08
      50.   Accurate stats please. 07:30  |  Gilad 24/06/08
      51.   Most of them don`t pay taxes 07:40  |  Berchmans 24/06/08
      52.   Pay your taxesthen ask for water 07:52  |  Hermine 24/06/08
      53.   Evangelical 08:31  |  Sam Smith 24/06/08
      54.   x-ray 08:53  |  Janice 24/06/08
      55.   IF ARABS DONT LIKE IT THE MIDDLE EAST IS A VERY BIG PLACE 09:09  |  PalestniansAreA Myth 24/06/08
      56.   This is just shocking... 02:17  |  Dutch 25/06/08
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