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NEWS ABOUT: East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem stories: 12 news summaries

(Newser) - Amid intense US-Israeli negotiations over settlements, Israel today brushed off Washington’s request to stop an American millionaire's housing project in East Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reports. Palestinians have complained that it would change demographics in the Arab-dominated area. But Obama "had crossed a red line" in asking... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Benjamin Netanyahu • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • millionaires • Arab Israeli conflict • East Jerusalem • housing projects

UN to Israel: Stop Demolition of  E. Jerusalem Homes

City planning crisis means thousands of illegally built Palestinian houses

May 1, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In East Jerusalem, overcrowding and strict rules about where Palestinians can build houses have led to the illegal construction of thousands of homes. Nearly a third of all Palestinian homes in the sector, occupied by some 60,000 people, were  built without permits. In response, the city government has issued... More »

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United Nations • Arab Israeli conflict • East Jerusalem • urban planning • demolition

(AP) - A Palestinian driver rammed a construction vehicle into a bus and police car on an Israeli highway today, wounding two officers before he was shot dead. It was the third bulldozer attack in Jerusalem in the past eight months. Witnesses described a yellow front-loader speeding along Begin Highway, dragging the... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Palestinians • East Jerusalem • terrorist attack • bulldozer • gunfire

 Arabs, Jews United 
 Against Jerusalem Tram 

Streetcar none desire creates common foe for city's eternally feuding people

Jan 31, 09 7:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Jerusalem's bitterly divided residents have finally found something they can agree on, the Wall Street Journal reports. From ultra-orthodox rabbis to the PLO, just about everybody has found cause to dislike the new tram system currently under construction. Even the city's secular mayor has questioned the wisdom of continuing the... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Israel and Palestinians • East Jerusalem • tram system • light rail • Jewish settlers

Jerusalem Elects First Secular Mayor in 5 Years

Win ends years of
ultra-Orthodox rule in
Israel's capital

Nov 12, 08 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A secular, hardline millionaire has won a decisive victory for mayor of Jerusalem, ending 5 years of ultra-Orthodox rule, the Los Angeles Times reports. Nir Barkat has promised to transform the impoverished capital city by boosting tourism and tech ventures. He has also demanded more homes for Jews in East... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Israeli Arabs • East Jerusalem • Israelis • Orthodox Jews • Nir Barkat

 Olmert: Israel Must 
 Leave West Bank 

Nation must relinquish land for lasting peace, says exiting PM

Sep 29, 08 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel must give up nearly all the land it seized in 1967 to forge peace with the Palestinians, said outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The nation must relinquish most of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights—or compensate the Palestinians and Syrians with Israeli territory, said... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • Golan Heights • East Jerusalem

In Blow to Bush, Olmert Rules Out Deal in 2008

Israeli PM calls timeline for Palestinian pact 'unrealistic'

Jul 28, 08 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert said today it is "unrealistic" to expect a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by the end of the year. The Israeli PM and Palestian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas pledged last year to make a deal by the end of 2008, and their inability to do so is a... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Jerusalem • Israel and Palestinians • East Jerusalem • Palestinian statehood

Mideast Strife Spills Onto Facebook

Israeli, Palestinian networkers squabble over country names

Mar 20, 08 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook has now had to take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Guardian reports, on account of its standard IDing of members by country. Jewish settlers in the West Bank were fuming when the site told them they lived in Palestine; Palestinians in East Jerusalem in turn protested that their turf... More »

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Israel • Palestine • Facebook • West Bank • East Jerusalem • settlers

Peace Talks Snag
on Jerusalem

Palestinians want to discuss issue Israelis say isn't on the table

Feb 19, 08 6:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians were set to resume today as leaders were already entangled in a first major clash: over whether or not they agreed that Jerusalem would be part of the discussion. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has claimed the Palestinians agreed to put off discussing Jerusalem.... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Jerusalem • West Bank • settlement • road map • East Jerusalem • Har Homa • peace talks • settlers • coalition

E. Jerusalem Settlements Rile Palestinians

New Israeli housing
in future capital
creates controversy

Feb 12, 08 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The contentious issue of post-Annapolis Israeli settlement has flared up again after the government began construction of hundreds of new homes in East Jerusalem, the putative capital of an independent Palestine. Although PM Ehud Olmert has frozen construction of new homes in the West Bank, the housing minister said today... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Salam Fayyad • East Jerusalem

Olmert: Divided Jerusalem
Is Inevitable

Says new Palestinian state is his first priority

Jan 2, 08 6:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Israelis must accept that Jerusalem will probably be divided if and when a Palestinian state is established, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said in a New Year's interview, charging that his political rivals have not "internalized" that reality, and their reluctance threatens the future of Israel. "The world that... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Six Day War • East Jerusalem • Green Line

Israel Plans
to Expand Settlements

 West Bank building plans do not  help peace talks with Palestinians

Dec 23, 07 9:28 PM CST
(Newser) - The road to Arab-Israeli peace could take yet another detour, the New York Times says, after Israel announced plans today to seek funding for the expansion of two Jewish settlements in areas Palestinians hope to claim for a future state. The two sides are expected to meet tomorrow, but... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Hamas • Ehud Barak • West Bank • settlement • Arab Israeli conflict • road map • East Jerusalem • Har Homa • Maale Adumim

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