31.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin insisted Friday that his country regarded Jerusalem as its united capital.

32.   Jerusalem has been declared the united capital of the Jewish state, but no major country has recognized it.

33.   Rabin reiterated on state radio from Washington that Jerusalem was and would remain the united capital of Israel and refused to be drawn on the embassy issue.

34.   Successive governments have constantly repeated that whatever happens Jerusalem, east and west, will remain the united capital.

35.   The compromise allows Israel to claim that there will be no ballot boxes in the holy city, which it has declared its united capital.

36.   The disclosure came as Israel seeks to tighten its grip on the whole city, which it has proclaimed the united capital of the Jewish state.

37.   The Jewish state has declared Jerusalem its united capital, while the Palestinians claim the eastern sector as the capital of their own future state.