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Israel Panel Approving New East Jerusalem Building

JERUSALEM -- Jerusalem officials on Monday gave preliminary approval for the building of 942 new apartments in a Jewish development in the city's contested eastern sector, threatening to create new friction ahead of the Israeli president's White House visit. Although it would take years before construction starts, the...

US Vetoes UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution Friday that would have condemned Israeli settlements as "illegal" and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. The 14 other Security Council members voted in favor of the resolution. The Obama administration's veto is certain to anger Arab...

Palestinians Angry About Leaks Attack Al-Jazeera HQ

JERUSALEM -- Palestinians supporting President Mahmoud Abbas smashed windows and sprayed graffiti outside the West Bank headquarters of Al-Jazeera today, angry that it published documents that apparently showed Palestinian officials had agreed to Israeli sovereignty over nearly all Jewish settlements in East...

Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?

It's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington...

Jerusalem Hotel Demolished for Israeli Apartments

JERUSALEM -- Israeli bulldozers demolished a vacant hotel in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Sunday, clearing the way for a new Jewish housing development that has drawn heavy Palestinian and American condemnations. The planned construction, combined with a flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence, bodes poorly...

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Daoud Kuttab: Why the Sudden Arab Interest in East Jerusalem?

A flurry of visits by Arab and Islamic officials to East Jerusalem in the past few weeks has left Palestinians wondering what is happening.

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05/30/12 Citizen Klein and the East Jerusalem Citizenship Stats Source: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) East Jerusalem Arabs outside the Ministry of Interior.
05/24/12 Peace Was Not at Hand Source: The Blog - The Weekly Standard At the time, back in 2008, Olmert explained his proposal to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In her memoir No Higher Honor , she recounts what happened : I worried that there might never be another chance like this oneâ¦. to have an Israeli prime minister on record offering those remarkable elements and a Palestinian president accepting them would have pushed the peace process to a new level.
05/24/12 78% of east Jerusalem in poverty, report finds Source: Jerusalem Post - Israel Poverty is increasing in east Jerusalem, especially among children, according to a new report released by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel this week.
05/20/12 Palestinians and Israelis clash in Jerusalem Source: Al Jazeera Israeli marchers scuffled with Palestinians as a procession marking the capture of East Jerusalem entered the old city's Muslim quarter, police said.
05/20/12 Palestinians and Israelis clash in Jerusalem march Source: National Post - Don Mills - ON - Canada Right-wing Israeli marchers scuffled with Palestinians as a procession marking the Jewish state's annexation of east Jerusalem entered the old city's Muslim quarter on Sunday, police said.

Background on east jerusalem

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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