Israeli police arrested Peace Now demonstrators who tried to block a group of land developers from touring the controversial Har Homa site in southeastern Jerusalem. The tour came before a deadline at the end of December to submit bids for building there. Groundbreaking at the site in March 1997 triggered an 18-month-long stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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