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Har Homa ((ヘブライ語:הר חומה), lit ''Wall Mountain''), officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near Beit Sahour. It is built on land annexed to the Jerusalem municipality by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, and considered an illegal Israeli settlement by much of the world,〔(Israel Plans East Jerusalem Housing (New York Times, Nov. 8, 2010) )〕 although Israel disputes this. The settlement is also referred to as Jabal Abu Ghneim, which is the Arabic name of the hill. One purpose given for the decision approving of its establishment was to obstruct the growth of the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem.〔Judah Ari Gross, ('US officials: Washington could back UN resolution on Palestine,' ) The Times of Israel 19 March 2015:'the official referenced Netanyahu’s approval of construction in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa to block contiguity between Palestinian-majority areas during his first stint as prime minister in the 1990s as proof that Netanyahu truly meant what he said. “It was a way of stopping Bethlehem from moving toward Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said at the time.“ To actually come out and say that this construction is actually driven by efforts to undermine a future Palestinian state is fairly dramatic,” said the official.'〕〔Jody Rudoren, (‘Netanyahu Says No Palestinian State if He Is Re-Elected,’ ) New York Times 16 March 2015.:’ Mr. Netanyahu said he had authorized that construction during his first term to block Palestinians from expanding Bethlehem, and to prevent a “Hamastan” for militants from sprouting in the hills nearby.’〕 The neighborhood was officially renamed ''Homat Shmuel'' in 1998 after Shmuel Meir, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, who played an active role in its development before he was killed in a car accident in 1996. In 2013, Har Homa had a population of 25,000.〔(Homat Shmuel )〕 ==History== In the 1940s, a Jewish group purchased 130 dunams (13 ha or 32 acres) of land on the hill between Jerusalem and Bethlehem known in Arabic as ''Jabal Abu Ghneim'' ((アラビア語:جبل أبو غنيم), translit). During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the hill was a base for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a position taken over by Jordan's Arab Legion. The Hebrew name "Har Homa" refers to a wall built on the remains of a Byzantine church on the mountain which was visible to Palmach forces stationed at kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Following the war, the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property planted a small forest of non-native pine trees there to prevent misuse of the land by local Jordanian residents. After 1967, the forest was maintained by the Jewish National Fund until many of the trees were removed when the housing construction began in the late 1990s.〔(History of Har Homa )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Har Homa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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