"Greater Jerusalem Municipality"

"The issue of a settlement freeze in Jerusalem is complicated by Israeli operational definitions: in 1967, Israel unilaterally expanded East Jerusalem, which was about 6 square kilometers under Jordanian rule from May 1948, by some 65 square kilometers, adding areas of the surrounding West Bank on three sides around the Old City. This, plus West Jerusalem, became known as the “Greater Jerusalem municipality”. It extends primarily to the north, to include Qalandia airport and what became the adjacent Atarot industrial zone, but also to the south, to include Jebal Abu Ghneim which has now been deforested and the large Har Homa settlement is still being expanded there. Har Homa and Gilo, like other large Jewish settlements such as Pisgat Ze’ev and Ramot in “Greater Jerusalem” north, actually look much more like the “neighborhoods” they are called rather than the “gated communities” that exist in the West Bank, guarded by their own volunteer militias as well as by the Israeli military...And Jimmy Carter, who as U.S. president was so protective of the Camp David process that he had invested so much in, visited the Hanoun and Ghawi families living on the sidewalks in front of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on 27 August, as part of a delegation of The Elders – a group of former statesmen and women – and brought them a “gift of food”. Did he remember that in 1980, he instructed officials in his administration just before he faced re-election in what became the final year of his presidency, to be “noticeably quiet” on the subject of Jerusalem? "