Mayor Teddy Kollek came under fire in the city council and the local labor council yesterday for expressing the opinion that an independent Arab and an independent Jewish Jerusalem could exist side by side if peace came. The mayor had referred to a greater Jerusalem stretching from Bethlehem to Ramallah in an interview published in the Jerusalem Post. He stressed that he was expressing his personal views, not those of the municipality. But city councilmen of all factions insisted that any views expressed by the mayor were considered to represent municipal policy. No action was taken in the city council but the labor council adopted a resolution denouncing the mayor’s proposal.
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