Israel to protect Jerusalem?

Haaretz is reporting Sunday morning that Israel has installed infrastructure to build some 3,500 housing units on 12,000 dunams of land between Maalaeh Adumim and Jerusalem (the land in question is referred to in the linked article as A-1, but it is sometimes referred to in the media - and in previous posts on this issue in this blog - as E-1). The goal of the building is to provide for