Israeli Labor Party leader Ehud Barak said his party would not allow Jerusalem to become divided. Barak also told the residents of the Jewish settlement of Beit El that “we will stay in Beit El forever” — and that the only guarantor of security is a separation of the Israeli and Palestinian populations.
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