The Jerusalem Old City Intitative discussion document

Neither can analysis and ideas regarding the question: why not limit ourselves to developing special arrangements future of the Old City be divorced from the current security-based for the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount, leaving the rest of the Old City climate, other critical political compromises, or from the larger city of for negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians on the basis of Jerusal [...] We believe that without agreement on the Old City, Holy Sites in the Old City, especially the Church of the Holy the most sensitive religious sites will continue to serve as flashpoints Sepulcher, and the intertwined and dense nature of life within the for violence, especially with the rise of militant religious expression walls, make it an inseparable whole. [...] We heard repeatedly that sovereignty over the refer to the many crucial heritage sites outside the city walls, most Haram al-Sharif and the Old City, possibly excluding the Western Wall prominently the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives and the and the Jewish Quarter, is fundamental to Palestinian needs: the end, Muslim cemetery outside the Lion’s Gate, as well as the many not the starting poi [...] The The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is the largest single landowner establishment of cultural and social institutions at the in the Old City and among the largest 10 landowners in Israel and community level would assist in social development. [...] The most sensitive aspect of the In considering the economics of the Old City, it becomes readily expropriation was the demolition of the Mughrabi area and the apparent that there is a strong connection between its potential as the expulsion of its residents to create a plaza facing the Western Wall.