Israeli police forcibly dispersed Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators protesting Thursday against Jewish housing construction in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. The site, owned by Miami developer Dr. Irving Moskowitz, has become a flash point for tensions over Jewish building in the West Bank and disputed parts of Jerusalem.
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