(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - At a meeting of the Middle East Quartet last Wednesday in Brussels, the EU and Russia proposed asking Israel to reopen Orient House, the former PLO and PA headquarters in eastern Jerusalem, as well as other Palestinian institutions in the eastern half of the city, in an attempt to convince the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table. At the meeting, U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell told the Quartet there was no prospect of Israel agreeing to a complete halt in construction in eastern Jerusalem.
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