By WorldNetDaily.com
The latest unclassified telephone directory of the U.S. State Department li= sts contacts in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem separately from those of t= he Jewish state.
The move comes as the U.S. promotes a political division of Jerusalem to ac= commodate
WND has obtained a draft Israeli-Palestinian declaration to be presented at= the Annapolis conference and to serve as an official outline of a final se= ttlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian leaders have asked the U.S. to support a demand that the Palest= inian Authority be allowed to open official representative institutions in = eastern sections of Jerusalem, including a sanctioned headquarters in Israe= l's capital, WND has learned.
Political sources in Jerusalem said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is studying = the request. The opening of PA offices in Jerusalem would serve as a major = statement that the city would become the capital of a future Palestinian st= ate, said senior Palestinian negotiators speaking to WND.
In line with previous Israeli-Palestinian accords, the PA until now has bee= n barred from conducting political activity in Jerusalem, although it maint= ained an office, called Orient House, in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood = that previously functioned as a de facto PA headquarters.
Orient House was closed down by Israel in 2001 following a series of suicid= e bombings in Jerusalem and information Israel said indicated it was used t= o plan and fund terrorism. Thousands of documents and copies of bank certif= icates and checks captured by Israel from Orient House =96 including many d= ocuments obtained by WND =96 showed the offices were used to finance terror= ism, including direct payments to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group.
At the Annapolis summit, Olmert is widely expected to outline a Palestinian= state in most of the West Bank, which borders Jerusalem and is within rock= et range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport. Hamas leaders, inc= luding the group's chief in Gaza, repeatedly have vowed to take over the We= st Bank if Israel withdraws from the strategic territory. Hamas in June sei= zed the Gaza Strip, overrunning all U.S.-backed compounds of Abbas' Fatah o= rganization.
There have been reports =96 denied by Olmert =96 the prime minister will al= so seek to hand over eastern sections of Jerusalem to Abbas. Last month, Ol= mert hinted he would be willing to divide Jerusalem, asking during a speech= whether it was "really necessary" to retain certain Arab neighborhoods in = Judaism's capital.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon, a member of Olmert's ruling Kadima party, last mon= th reportedly mapped out a future partition of Jerusalem under a deal with = the Palestinians.
Ramon wrote in a letter to Jerusalem City Councilman Nir Barkat, according = to the Israeli web site YnetNews.com, that under his plan, "The Jewish neig= hborhoods (of Jerusalem) will be recognized as Israeli and under Israeli so= vereignty. Accordingly, the Arab neighborhoods will be recognized as Palest= inian."
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