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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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