Over the past 44 years, Israel has utilized several tactics in exercising demographic, territorial, and political control over East Jerusalem. With the interim period of the Oslo Accords long expired since 1999, Israel continues to postpone discussion on Jerusalem in its quest to create “facts on the ground” prior to final status negotiations.  This paper discusses the various legislative and administrative actions taken by Israel in regards to Jerusalem, mostly deemed illegal by international humanitarian law and UN resolutions (i.e. (Hague regulation of 1907, Fourth Geneva Convention, United Nations Charter, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 478, etc.), that have served to dispossess both Jerusalemites and all Palestinians of their right to self-determination (in terms of freely determining their status and choosing their own state and territorial boundaries).