ABSTRACT
The Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies (JIIS) presented three principal and several secondary alternative solutions for the Jerusalem problem. The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies Policy Paper of 2000 specifically addressed the issue of sovereignty over the external ring of Arab neighbourhoods was specifically addressed in JIIS's policy paper of 2000. The Jerusalem Institute also suggested that overall security in the Holy Basin would be Israel's overarching responsibility, but that it would be accomplished through a joint Palestinian-Israeli patrol. The Palestinians, at this stage, were willing to discuss Israel's offer to divide the Jerusalem metropolitan area into two capitals, thus displaying more flexibility than previously. According to Swisher, even before the summit, the Palestinians' main condition for this line of discussion was that Israel forego its insistence on sovereignty over al Haram al-Sharif/the Temple Mount. They pressured the Palestinians to agree to the annexation to Israel of two settlement blocs in the Jerusalem metropolitan area.
