41. Israeli police on Friday raided an east Jerusalem hotel to prevent the holding of a conference on the future of the disputed city. 42. Israeli police raided an east Jerusalem hotel on Friday to halt a conference on the future of the disputed city. 43. Israel says it will keep the disputed city as the undivided capital of the Jewish state. 44. Israel sees visits by foreign ministers to the Orient House as a tacit recognition of Palestinian claims to sovereignty in the disputed city. 45. Israel-PLO agreements call for the future of the disputed city to be determined in talks on a final peace settlement. 46. Israeli peace activists also gathered in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis to urge that Palestinians be given a foothold in the disputed city. 47. Israeli police shut down a minor Palestinian office in the disputed city. 48. Israel objects to Palestinians establishing national institutions in the disputed city. 49. Israeli authorities say the company was providing services in Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority, which under the Israel-Palestinian agreements cannot operate in the disputed city. 50. It was the dozens of children from both sides of the disputed city sitting in the audience and singing between the speeches that saved the evening. |