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The pressure is on in the Middle East.
President Bill Clinton is pushing for a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis before he leaves office in January.
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat is under pressure from his followers to declare an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.
Israel's prime minister, under pressure from his own party to enter a peace agreement, is under intense pressure from others in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, not to yield one inch to the hostile nations around them.
Meanwhile, the pope has called for Jerusalem to be an "international city" with free and open access for all.
Jerusalem has become the focus of the debate. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have stalled mainly over this issue. Other territorial disputes can probably be settled given time, but the conflict over Jerusalem is seemingly insoluble. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to the same small area, the Old City of Jerusalem. The Temple Mount, of biblical importance to devout Jews, is also the site of two of the Islamic world's most important mosques, the Dome of the Rock, from which the prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven upon his horse, and the El-Aqsa.
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