Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejects Barack Obama's call on Wednesday for Jerusalem to be the undivided capital of Israel, during a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 4, 2008."The whole world knows that holy Jerusalem was occupied in 1967 and we will not accept a Palestinian state without having Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state." Reuters Pictures 20 months ago

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejects Barack Obama's call on Wednesday for Jerusalem to be the undivided capital of Israel, during a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 4, 2008."The whole world knows that holy Jerusalem was occupied in 1967 and we will not accept a Palestinian state without having Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state."

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