Transcript: Analysis: Israel to allow Palestinian voting in East Jerusalem

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
01-10-2006
Analysis: Israel to allow Palestinian voting in East Jerusalem

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Weeks before Palestinians hold an election there's an agreement involving a politically sensitive area: East Jerusalem. That's the part of the city that Israelis captured in a war almost four decades ago. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says insisted there will not be elections unless Palestinians in East Jerusalem can participate and today Israel's defense minister announced that they can.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

LINDA GRADSTEIN reporting:

Today's decision to allow voting in East Jerusalem follows pressure ...

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