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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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From: TimF11/7/2007 12:13:13 PM
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Thousands of Palestinians apply for Israeli citizenship

Intensive talks over division of Jerusalem has prompted its Palestinian residents to make a move once considered the ultimate treason

Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem calling to set up an appointment with the Interior Ministry to apply for an Israeli citizenship will discover the next available interview date is only in April.

In the months leading up to the upcoming Annapolis peace conference talk of a future division of the city has prompted a staggering increase in nationalization requests by Palestinians seeking to escape life under the Palestinian Authority.


Some 250,000 Palestinians currently reside in Jerusalem. Only 12,000 of them have sought to obtain an Israeli citizenship since 1967, an average of about 300 new citizens a year.


But over the past four months the Interior Ministry has registered an unprecedented 3,000 applications, primarily residents of the Arab neighborhoods unlikely to remain under Israeli sovereignty according to the political initiative currently on the agenda...

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