Quds (JERUSALEM), July 19, SPA -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel can build anywhere in Jerusalem _ a position likely to complicate an unusually tense standoff with the U.S. over settlement construction. The U.S. has demanded that Israel suspend a contentious building project in east Jerusalem because it would hurt peacemaking, the Associated Press reported. The Palestinians see the city's eastern sector as capital of a hoped-for state and oppose any Jewish construction there. Israel captured east Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed it that same year. Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that Israel's sovereignty over all of Jerusalem was «indisputable.» The Israeli leader says, «We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem.»
