Israel's Labor Party officially supports giving up parts of Jerusalem

In its new campaign platform, the center-left Labor Party supports giving up Arab neighborhoods of &to=http://english.pravda.ru/world/2001/02/21/2624.html' target=_blank>Jerusalem in a final deal with the Palestinians, a Labor lawmaker said Friday.

The platform, to be officially presented Sunday, will state that Labor backs a "united Jerusalem consisting of its Jewish neighborhoods," lawmaker Yuli Tamir told The Associated Press. "This is a statement that we are willing to give up the Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem in order to strengthen the Jewish majority."

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