Americans for Peace Now asked the Bush administration to press Israel not to seize Palestinian property in eastern Jerusalem. Reports in recent days have suggested that Israel could use a 1950 law to confiscate property that West Bank Palestinians have been tending for years in eastern Jerusalem.
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