On the same day a bomb exploded in a West Jerusalem supermarket without causing injury.
On October 22nd a Palestinian from Bethlehem unloaded his pistol in a commercial part of West Jerusalem, wounding four Israelis.
That awkwardness would lead to others, one of them being the question of restitution for Palestinian-owned properties throughout the pre-1948 Mandate for Palestine, including West Jerusalem.
On the Palestinian side, the car-bomb that exploded in West Jerusalem on October 1st, the work of Islamic Jihad, was in direct contravention of the ceasefire hurriedly declared by Yasser Arafat in the wake of the terrorist assault on America.
Rabin, who fought in Israel's 1948 war for independence, will be buried with full military honors Monday at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jewish west Jerusalem, where the remains of Zionist founder Theodor Herzl and former prime ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir were laid to rest.
Of course the withdrawal is important, but 8, 000 settlers can hardly be seen as significant compared with the 450, 000-plus illegal settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Palestinian officials have halted all negotiations with Israel, both direct and indirect, because of the continuation of what they describe as illegal settlement building in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The inability of Israel and the Palestinians to reach a political agreement over the West Bank and Jerusalem has arguably been one of the major obstacles to peace in the region.
Israeli troops fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a demonstration of several hundred Palestinian women who had marched on an Israeli checkpoint between Ramallah on the West Bank and Jerusalem.
But many senior Israelis are convinced that a return to negotiations with the Palestinians will allay tensions, not only in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel but in the region as a whole.
Israelis and Arabs approve and deplore the decision for the same reason: the new town, to be called Har Homa, would complete the ring of Jewish-only estates that divide Arab East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland, making it extremely hard to see how East Jerusalem could ever be the capital of a Palestinian state.
The summoning of Israeli ambassadors to the foreign ministries in London, Paris and Stockholm may be only the opening phase in the diplomatic crisis prompted by Israel's decision to build some 3, 000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as plans to push ahead with construction between Jerusalem and the settlement town of Maale Adumim.
Similar rallies were held across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and even in the Gaza Strip.
Peace talks have been stalled over construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Israel captured these territories in the 1967 war and still occupies the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinians refuse to resume negotiations unless Israel stops building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In the 1967 war, Israel took control of the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Sinai and Golan Heights.
About 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Obama has already been hurt by his obsessive focus on a settlements freeze in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
It then built residential colonies for Jews which, together with their linking roads, became fortresses between the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
He refuses to resume negotiations with Israel without a total freeze of settlement building both in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About 500, 000 Jews live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, which are illegal under international law, among 2.5 million Palestinians.
Close to 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinians insist all settlements must be removed from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where they want to establish a future state.
Condi Rice nonetheless demands that Israel now relinquish the West Bank and East Jerusalem to yet another terrorist organization: Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah.
Israel rejects a full withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
About 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Israel occupied the area in 1967.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have been deadlocked since late 2008, in large part over the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Britain and France have both summoned Israeli ambassadors in protest at Israel's decision to approve the construction of 3, 000 new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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