Jerusalem is on the verge of a third intifada. A number of steps could calm the volatile situation. Israeli police presence in East Jerusalem should be reduced. (At the same time, we should step up military and intelligence activity against Hamas and Islamic Jihad cells operating there.) A municipal body representing the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem should be established and developed, to fill the vacuum left by the closing of Orient House in 2001, which functioned as an umbrella institution for civil institutions in East Jerusalem.
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