1.   Netanyahu said he would not close the archeological tunnel near the Al-Aqsa mosque, whose opening sparked the rioting and fighting.

2.   Still, there is no indication that Israel will close the second entrance to an archeological tunnel near the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

3.   Surely there must be a face-saving way for both sides to resolve the problem of the archeological tunnel in Jerusalem that Israel resumed work on last week.

4.   The past three days have seen the bloodiest fighting in the Holy Land in three decades, after Israel completed the archeological tunnel running near al Aqsa.

5.   The unrest had been set off by the opening of a new exit to an Israeli archeological tunnel in Jerusalem.

6.   There was no urgent need to open a new entrance to an archeological tunnel that runs alongside the holiest Muslim and Jewish religious sites in Jerusalem.

7.   But Mubarak noted that he telephoned Netanyahu when the Israeli leader was in Paris last September during the start of Palestinian unrest over an archeological tunnel in Jerusalem.

8.   Israeli officials meanwhile prepared to reopen Sunday a controversial archeological tunnel whose extension early last week sparked the Palestinian protests.

9.   Israel opens the archeological tunnel running alongside the Al-Aqsa mosque complex and deploys a significant contingent of police to protect the excavation.

10.   Another key issue is the future of a controversial archeological tunnel in Jerusalem which sparked off the Palestinian protests last week.