Tulsa World · Tulsa, OK · 18 March 1998
CP-1998-032
Netanyahu Snubs British
Israel Vows to Continue Expansion in East Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM (AP) — Touching a raw nerve in Israel, Britain’s foreign secretary was greeted by taunts of “Anti-Semite!” as he visited the site of a new Jewish housing project in Jerusalem and insisted that Mideast peace hinged on a halt to Jewish settlement expansion.
A furious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed back, vowing to build “thousands of homes” on disputed land in east Jerusalem, and canceling a dinner and even a traditional handshake with the diplomat, Robin Cook.
Cook ignited deep Israeli enmity by meeting with a Palestinian official at the divisive housing project known in Hebrew as Har Homa and in Arabic as Jabal Abu Ghneim. Ignoring the driving rain, Israeli protesters jeered Cook at the 6,500-unit construction site, banging pots and pans and chanting “Anti-Semite!” and “Robin, go home!”
Netanyahu’s snub capped days of wrangling between Israel and Britain over the symbolism of Cook’s visit to east Jerusalem, the sector claimed by the Palestinians as a future capital.
“The issue of Jerusalem is a cardinal one in our eyes and it is important for us to inform any guest in Jerusalem and anyone who wants to contribute to the peace process that Israel is sovereign in Jerusalem and will remain so,” a stern-faced Netanyahu told reporters. “This government is the one that decided to go forward with the building on Har Homa.
And Har Homa will be built. There will be thousands of homes in Har Homa,” he said. British Embassy spokeswoman Sara Buchanan said Cook’s agenda had been sanctioned by the European Union — since Britain holds the EU’s rotating presidency — and called Netanyahu’s response “an overreaction.”
How this transcription was made
Date confirmed on the page (folio-verified (the folio across the top of the page reads “TULSA WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1998”. 18 March 1998 was a Wednesday. Paper and date both match Maria’s label.)).
Context added by this archive
Clean AP page. No Israeli-Arab vocabulary: a negative case, but a useful one, because the story shows the paper is perfectly capable of giving a place two names in two languages in a single clause while giving the people only one.
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"Netanyahu Snubs British," Tulsa World, 18 March 1998. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1998-032. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1998-032
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