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...have to give up his demand that millions of Palestinian exiles have the "right" to return to homes in Israel lost during Mideast wars. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak would have to make concessions as well: Palestine would gain sovereignty over East Jerusalem neighborhoods and the top of Temple Mount, a holy site sacred to Jews and Arabs, who call it Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary. Clinton folded his notes and looked up. "If you want to reach an agreement, I think that the only way to get it done is to accept this," he said...
...closed doors last week before they voted 10-2 to accept the plan in principle. "There is an opportunity, despite the pain," Barak pleaded. Israel wouldn't swallow all of Clinton's ideas, he assured his cabinet. "I will not sign an agreement that transfers sovereignty on the [Temple] Mount to the Palestinians," the Prime Minister insisted. His army chief, Lieut. General Shaul Mofaz, also warned the cabinet that "there are a lot of gaps in the American plan," the most worrisome of which was how Israel's eastern border would be protected from a Palestinian state that would still...
...Jerusalem is an issue on which many very liberal Israelis feel great discomfort. Not so much because they don't like the concessions on the Temple Mount that Barak has put on the table, but because they feel that while they're making all these concession on what for them is the holiest site, the Palestinians are moving in the opposite direction, refusing to acknowledge the fact that the Jewish temple stood on the same site, and refusing to compromise. Many Jews who are not particularly nationalistic see that as a very unfair element of current negotiations...
...mufti of Jerusalem recently issued a fatwa saying there was no Jewish temple and no validity to Jewish claims that this was the Temple Mount. That touches a raw nerve for a lot of people who wouldn't go to this demonstration because they wouldn't feel comfortable with the sort of people who are organizing it. But they feel uncomfortable to the point of possibly not voting for Barak, because while agreeing with his stance, the response from the Palestinians has been so negative. There's growing alarm in Israel at a sense that the more compromises Israel offers...
...component of the plan. Although it was never made public, the U.S. proposal was said to involve Israel withdrawing from all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, and recognizing Palestinian sovereignty in parts of East Jerusalem, including the Islamic holy sites atop the Temple Mount, in exchange for the Palestinians dropping their demand that some 4 million refugees be given the right to return to Israel...