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Al-Quds U Head: Swap ‘Right of Return’ for Jerusalem

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(IsraelNN.com) The head of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem advocated Wednesday for Palestinian Authority negotiators to consider abandoning the so-called “right of return” for millions of descendants of Arabs who fled the state in 1948 in exchange for Israel handing over half of Jerusalem for a new PA capital in a future final status agreement.

Sari Nusseibeh said in an interview published in the London-based Arabic-language al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that such a deal would be “a sacrifice any Muslim would be willing to make for the al-Aqsa mosque.”

A Palestinian Authority (PA) official has indicated that PA negotiator Ahmed Qureia plans to bring up the status of Jerusalem in talks with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Wednesday. The talks are to be hosted by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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