ARABS-ISRAEL - Aug. 28 - Palestinians Get Support At Jerusalem Conference.The Jerusalem committee of Islam's main world body, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, calls for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but says east Jerusalem East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western must be the capital of a future Palestinian state The Palestinian state (Arabic (دولة فلسطين) is a proposed country. The proposed location includes the Gaza Strip and the autonomously controlled areas of the West Bank, currently controlled by the Palestinian National . A statement from the committee after its 1-day meeting, says: "The committee confirms its support to the state of Palestine and its sovereignty over Al Quds [Jerusalem] and all the holy Islamic and Christian shrines", adding: "It also confirms that Al Quds is the capital of the Palestinian independent state". The meeting, sought by Arafat after the collapse of Camp David Camp David, U.S. presidential retreat, located in Catoctin Mountain Park (see National Parks and Monuments, table), in NW Md. The Camp David accords, the terms of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, were established (1978) at this site; other negotiations and peace talks, included FMs from 16 Muslim countries, as well as a delegation of Muslim and Christian religious leaders from Jerusalem. Attallah Hana, a Greek Orthodox Adj. 1. Greek Orthodox - of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Orthodox faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he figure in Jerusalem who headed the Christian delegation to the session, says: "There can be no peace unless Palestinian Muslims and Christians recover their holy city". (Jerusalem is sacred to Islam, Christianity and Judaism Judaism and Christianity while related some ways are distinctly different. Judaism being an Abrahamic religion fundamentally diverges in theology and practice. While Judaism places the emphasis for holiness on the concepts of clean and unclean, Christianity places the emphasis for . Palestinians want east Jerusalem as their capital, while the Israelis insist it will remain united under Israeli control.) |
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