Building, like West Bank peace, still under construction

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CAL458IC43 The Jordanians Included difficult issue-on the table. mum (Arab) population," said Jerusalem, proposed in for ian Poriament in n 9t5 nian for 1947 but never implemented a neichborhood of Yisrael Kimchi, a researcher at salem, negotiators hat greater Jerusalem that was Palestinians Speaker Ahmed Qureia, whose in says it may also be one of the never adopted because Israel boundaries straddles the Jerusalem Doun draw the home is in Abu Dis, conte Beninand ww. withOpercent in Ine neighborhood is a grown from a sleepy sized the easterr solution to the stickiest issue on ago, and the rest in the West Bank in the agricultural village to a bustling Middle the table.

Mahmoud Abbas, a deputy of war. it was also pantora UinPalestinian leader Yasser Arathough, under administrative control of the meantime, The four-story building unAbu Dis has emerced as more designated international zone Jerusalem proper. half fat, drafted a plan to expand Jethe Palestinian Authority.

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"Building, like West Bank peace, still under construction," Lansing State Journal, 29 February 2000. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-036. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-036