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East Jerusalem is home to over 300,000 Palestinians who hold permanent residency in Israel — a status that is not quite citizenship and not quite a permit. This episode unpacks the legal architecture behind that status: how the 1967 boundary expansion tripled the city's size, why a 2016 citizenship approval rate of 7 out of 1,081 applications matters, and how more than 3,000 people have been left stateless by residency revocations since 1995. Then we dig into the Washington Institute's 2022 poll of East Jerusalem Palestinians, where 48% said they would prefer Israeli citizenship — up from around 20% just two years earlier. What does that swing mean? Is it pragmatism, identity, or something more complicated? We explore the gap between the popular narrative and what the data actually show, and why the city functions at all. Episode #174348 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/174348