IDF orders the expropriation of Arab land near East Jerusalem.

Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, 09.10.07. The Israel Defense Forces recently issued an order expropriating over 1,100 dunams of land from four Arab villages located between East Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim.
The plan also noted that the proposed housing development in E-1 would create an uninterrupted urban expanse between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim. Such an expanse [a Jewish development consisting of 3,500 apartments and an industrial park] would effectively sever the territorial contiguity between the northern and southern West Bank.

Tom Segev, Haaretz, 09.10.07. Israeli rule in East Jerusalem is visible mainly in a wave of construction for Jews, not in the granting of equal rights to the Arab inhabitants, not in providing equal services to the two parts of the city. Former mayor Ehud Olmert initiated the physical division of the city using a giant concrete wall that leaves some 50,000 Arabs on the other side.