I have mentioned in other posts that polls over the past years point to the fact that most Israelis are ready to divide Jerusalem.
Here is info on a recent study showing this:
Study: Most Israelis willing to cede E. Jerusalem Arab areas
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Last Update: 20/01/2006 08:32
More than half of Israeli Jews would be willing to give up East Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods and effectively redivide the city as part of a genuine peace agreement, but the overwhelming majority (75 percent of those willing to make these concessions) do not believe it is possible to achieve genuine peace with the Palestinians. Only a small percentage are willing, even as part of a genuine peace agreement, to give up the Old City, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
The figures are derived from a comprehensive public opinion poll on Jerusalem, carried out by Dr. Aharon Fein and the Tazpit Research Institute for the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS).
JIIS researchers created demographic, economic, social and security indexes to study the the city's current situation. Most of the indexes point to negative trends. The research will be presented next week at the Herzliya Conference on the Balance of Israel's National Security.
According to the research, the willingness to concede the capital's Arab neighborhoods can be understood in light of the huge majority (95.3 percent) of respondents who believe it is very important for Jerusalem to have a significant Jewish majority.
Among the adult population, 63 percent are willing to make concessions in Jerusalem as part of a genuine peace agreement. Some 3.2 percent are willing to give up the Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives and the Western Wall; and 5.4 percent are willing to give up the Arab neighborhoods, the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and the Mount of Olives, but not the Wall. More than half the respondents, 54.4 percent, would give up the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods alone, while 36 percent are unwilling to make any territorial concessions in Jerusalem, including the Arab neighborhoods.
People whose religious self-definition was "traditional" or "secular" were significantly more likely to agree to concessions than those who defined themselves as religious or ultra-Orthodox.
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And this is an interesting article on the underhanded process of occupying more of E. Jerusalem:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/672905.html
Developers 'dumping' East J'lem homes on unwitting U.S. Jews By Daphna Berman, Haaretz Correspondent
A luxury housing project in southeast Jerusalem with panoramic views of the Temple Mount is attracting dozens of wealthy American Jews looking to have a foothold in Jerusalem. But some real estate experts in the capital say that the developers are intentionally unloading the project on eager, but ignorant, overseas buyers who do not necessarily understand the city's geography, the political implications of such a move, or the fact that landowners in the area have appealed to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to stop the project.
Apartments in Nof Zion, in the Jabel Mukaber area of East Jerusalem, are fetching hundreds of thousands of dollars from buyers overseas with promises of exclusivity and a view reminiscent of the days when King David walked the city. With its first stage slated for completion by October 2007, Nof Zion is advertised as a gated community with 400 spacious apartments facing the Old City. A five-star hotel, a shopping center, a country club, synagogues, a mikveh and other amenities suited to their clientele of predominantly wealthy religious American Jews are being planned as well.
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