liberal pretence of a jewish state141 the city.”21 An extension of this racialized demographobia, which recommends “staunching the emigration of Jews from the city, with an emphasis on attracting socio-economically strong populations,” is an added impetus for the appropriation and further development of already expropriated land. Working from the contention that the projected Jewish demographic majority for 2020 will be heavily pursued through Israeli government policies and practices, the report then argues that this projected Jewish majority would likely face a severe housing shortage. In other words, a natural extension of these racialized practices of population management is the perceived need to acquire more Palestinian-owned land for the purposes of exclusive Jewish housing. To this end – and acknowledging that “in the current political and diplomatic reality, it is not plausible that the state will expropriate land as it did in the past” – the report recommends the implementations of “land registration arrangements in eastern Jerusalem.”22 Purporting to amend the existing “legal and planning chaos,” this recommendation is justified through and framed within settlercolonial language and discourse explaining that … rational land registration arrangements that will be responsibly managed by the legally authorized individuals will prove beneficial both to the local population, that can legally build and give expression to the land under its ownership, as well as to the interests of the State of Israel, which can benefit in terms of control and right of possession of additional land.23 What ‘rational arrangements’ that are ‘responsibly managed’ by ‘legally authorized’ persons actually means for the continued maintenance and ownership of Arabs over their historical lands becomes evident with the statement that this recommendation will allow Israel to control and possess additional land. That said, even if one were to put aside this admission of broader expansionist interests within the report, it is clear that any land distribution arrangements framed according to objectives of demographic control cannot but fail to equally, proportionally and justly incorporate and meet the needs, rights and interests of Palestinian-Arabs. The account of the Zionist project posited by Yakobson and Rubinstein is rooted in a racialized demographobia similar to the above reports. However, Yakobson and Rubinstein’s important contribution to the above discussions is a liberal seal of approval for the multifaceted mechanisms of demographic engineering adopted by the state. Interestingly, the 21 Ibid., 12. 22 Ibid., 7. 23 Ibid.