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Jordan: East Jerusalem cannot be part of Israel's capital
By DPA
Tags: israel news 

The Jordanian government on Monday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel and that the Jewish state has a free hand to set up settlements throughout the West Bank.

"The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territories according to several resolutions issued by the United Nations," Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communication Nabil Sharif was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.

"In particular, the UN Security Council resolution 242 of 1967 and resolutions 476 and 478 of 1980 consider Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem null and void and call on Israel to end its occupation of East Jerusalem."
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He said that remarks made Sunday by the Israeli government about Jerusalem were nothing more than "fallacies that negate the well- established legal and political realities" and place obstacles "in the path of peace and US efforts that seek to establish peace through the realization of the two-state vision."

Sharif was responding to Netanyahu's assertion during a cabinet meeting that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel.

The Israeli prime minister rejected a US call on Israel to cancel a plan to build 20 housing units on the site of the Shepherd Hotel in the Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Israel captured East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war.

According to the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, since annexing East Jerusalem, Israel has expropriated 24,500 dunams (6,054 acres) privately owned by Palestinians. By the end of 2007, some 50,197 housing units had been built for Jews on the expropriated land, but none for Palestinians.

In a related development, Jordan's state-funded National Centre for Human Rights said Monday that calling Israel a Jewish state "runs counter to the international criteria of human rights as enshrined in the relevant international declarations which ban all forms of discrimination."

The NCHR said that the move by the new right-wing Israeli government to force Arabs to recognize the Jewish nature of Israel as a precondition for resuming negotiations with the Palestinians "implied racial and colonial connotations that lead to the deportation of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel from their land and homes."

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      1.   Heshamite Republic/The Holy See/Muslim Republic 05:08  |  Solomon the Wise 21/07/09
      2.   Jordan should be grateful to Israeli assistance 05:34  |  Arie 21/07/09
      3.   East Jerusalem cannot be part of Israel` capit 05:48  |  Josiah J. Ben David 21/07/09
      4.   Jordan is Palestine. 05:48  |  Fake Name 21/07/09
      5.   How can this Centre know so little of international law? 05:56  |  Serge 21/07/09
      6.   Arab Republic of Egypt; Syrian Arab Republic; 05:58  |  Martin P. 21/07/09
      7.   No one asked you Jordan... 06:06  |  Mark 21/07/09
      8.   Jordan shld take back the West Bank.... 06:24  |  US CITIZEN 21/07/09
      9.   Jerusalem belongs to humanity 06:52  |  Skip Mendler 21/07/09
      10.   This isn`t a game of chess 06:56  |  un2here 21/07/09
      11.   Why don`t you report how they are revoking the citizenship 06:59  |  Jew 21/07/09
      12.   Lol another country playing Israeli babysitter 07:04  |  Marcel 21/07/09
      13.   Jordan correct. Fourth Geneva Convention rules. 07:16  |  Ivar 21/07/09
      14.   Jordan is an Islamic State 07:58  |  Garry 21/07/09
      15.   *************JORDAN IS PALESTINE************* 08:01  |  PEACE 21/07/09
      16.   O.K. Then... 08:06  |  Ron 21/07/09
      17.   When East Jerusalem was a Jordanian City 08:13  |  Robert 21/07/09
      18.   The rulers of the Hashemite Kingdom are very vulnerable. 08:28  |  B. Gold 21/07/09
      19.   Israel is was born as a Jewpsh Qtate 08:41  |  Gilbert 21/07/09
      20.   Jordan is palestinian 08:41  |  Tarzan 21/07/09
      21.   #6 Martin 08:44  |  David 21/07/09
      22.   Go tell this nonsense to 57 Muslim states... 09:10  |  martin knopfman 21/07/09
      23.   OK, East Jerusalem is not part of Israel...... 09:26  |  The Archives 21/07/09
      24.   This dailty tug of war over Israel`s boundaries is ridiculous 09:36  |  Peter Williams 21/07/09
      25.   24 Peter Williams - Sense of Humor 10:42  |  Mark of Lewiston 21/07/09
      26.   All Jerusalem is integral part of Israel 10:45  |  Daniele 21/07/09
      27.   Talk is Cheap 11:39  |  Walid 21/07/09
      28.   to #6 Martin 12:02  |  Pitcher 21/07/09
      29.   #24 Well, there is an alternative, Peter Williams 12:26  |  Johnboy 21/07/09
      30.   #21 David 12:36  |  Mike B 21/07/09
      31.   # 28 Pitcher 12:43  |  Mike B 21/07/09
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