31.  The Palestinians are demanding that they be given sovereignty over East Jerusalem, which they plan to designate as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

32.  The Palestinians see East Jerusalem as the site of the capital of a future state.

33.  The Palestinians want eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.

34.  The Palestinians, however, see East Jerusalem as illegally occupied territory and the capital of their own future state.

35.  The reigning assessment of Israeli military experts is that the Palestinians want their future state to be born through struggle.

36.  The rest of the West Bank would become the basis of a future Palestinian state.

37.  The statement reportedly unsettled Arafat, who claims Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and asserts that the holy sites should be under Palestinian jurisdiction.

38.  This embarrassed and infuriated the Palestinians, who publicly aspire to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state.