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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html
Israeli Ministers Reaffirm Jerusalem Stance
(New York Times) Ethan Bronner - Senior Israeli ministers have publicly rejected American demands for curbs on building in Jewish areas of east Jerusalem. Benny Begin, a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu's inner cabinet, said Monday on Israel Radio that the status of east Jerusalem should be resolved in direct negotiations with the Palestinians, not in advance. He said the American request "will definitely bring about the opposite of the declared goal. It will bring about a hardening in the policy of the Arabs and of the Palestinian Authority." Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister and another member of the inner group of seven ministers, said in an interview: "I have not seen anyone among the seven who has consented to" a building freeze in most of the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.